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There being various reports of the number of Captures made by the several Ships under your Lordship's command, and my Lords not finding any account of that nature among the Papers which have accompanied your Lordships Dispatches, I am commanded by their Lordships to desire you will send them, with your next, a List of the several Captures which have been made by the Ships of your Squadron, and that your Lordship will continue to do so, from time to time as opportunitys offer.

And it having been represented that many inconveniences have arisen from the want of a Court at New York duly authorized to take cognizance, and proceed to the adjudication, of Prizes carried into that Port, I have their Lordships permission to acquaint you, that a Bill is now preparing, and will soon be presented to Parliament for authorising the Board of Admiralty to institute such a Court.

I have only to add that the Somerset sailed from Spithead the 7th Inst with her Convoy to join your Lordship, and that the Apollo, with General Burgoyne onboard sailed from Plymouth the 2nd inst for Quebec: I have the honor to be &ca

By the St Albans