Sir

I thank you for your letter Acquainting me of your having Appointed the 18th: Inst. for the Cerberus. to sail for England, my personal dispatches are to be put on board the Ship bound for Bristol, which will sail to Morrow, I shall be obliged to you to Order her Convoyd off the Coast, at least as far as Georges Bank; when the Cerberus sails I shall have other Dispatches. I am Sir [&c,]