Sir

Having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the————Inst representing that the Lords of the Treasury have received intelligence that a privatier of very large force is cruizing near the Gulph of St Lawrence in Order to intercept the Victuallers going to Canada & the success of the whole Campaign depending upon the early and safe arrival of the Victuallers there, you are directed by their Lordships to request that my Lords will be pleased immediately to order some Ship of War, equal in force, to the Privatier, which is said to be of 36 Guns to Cruize off Newfoundland, and in the Entrance of the Gulph of St Lawrence for the Protection & security of those Ships; I am in return, commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords of the Treasury that His Majts Ship Raisonable of 64 Guns Captn Fitzherbert is order'd to proceed immediately to the Coast of Newfoundland, to cruize in the Track from thence to the Entrance of the Gulph of St Lawrence, in order to take or destroy the Privatier alluded to, or any other he may find in those parts I am &c

John Robinson Esqr