Sir

I have communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 8th past acquainting them that you have received a Letter from Captn [William] Hay, at Gibraltar informing you that Captain [George] Murray of the Levant had brought in there a Rebel Brigantine Privateer, called the General Montgomery, commanded by Benjamin Hill mounting 18 Guns, of 9 & 6 Pounders 4 Cohorns & 3 Swivels and Mann'd with 87 Men when taken; and the most material Intelligence is, that the Congress are issuing 400 Commissions to Cruizers which are intended mostly for the Banks of Newfoundland, and the Coasts of Guinea, Spain & Portugal, and in rehun, I am commanded by their Lordships to refer you to my Letter of Yesterday's date respecting the disposal of the Prisoners taken on board the Privateer before mentioned I am Sir:

Vice Adml Man, at Gibraltar, by the Worcester.