Sir

We are favoured with your Letter of the 27th Instant, and we have now to request that you will be pleased to communicate to The Right Honble Lord George Germain the sincere thanks of Ourselves & the Other Merchants concern'd in the West Florida Trade for the information which by His Lordships Order you have given us of Admiral Gayton having appointed a Convoy for Our homeward bound Ships from Pensacola, but as there was not any Man of War or Armed Vessell arrived at Pensacola for that purpose on the 10th March, and as Our two Ships, the St Andrew & Marian, were then nearly loaded with Cargoes of DeeTskins chiefly, to the Aniount of £20,000 Sterlg by each, Our Correspondents advise us that they shall be under the necessity of dispatching these two Ships by the 20th of March at latest in order to avoid the fatal consequences of Worm damage in their Cargoes, so that we have the greatest reason to be apprehensive that the Convoy will not only be too late for Our Vessels, but likewise for all or most of the Vessells with Deerskins & Furrs from the Mississipi, for should the Lord Amherst Armed Ship be the Vessell appointed for that service as she was not arrived at Pensacola the 10th March, she cannot well be ready to sail for England before the 15th or 20th of April, which as we have already said will be much too near the Approach of Summer for the Deerskin Ships to waite at Pensacola, as they will hereby hazard a far greater value by damage in the Cargoes from Worms than can be saved in the premiums of Insurance from Convoy — We are [&c.]