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Sir  All communication with Admiral [Samuel] Graves being either out of, or rendered uncertain and precarious by the disorder and confusion which for some time past has reigned throughout this Continent, I am to request the favour, that you will be pleased to lay before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the inclosed Copy of my last Letter to the Admiral, that their Lordships may form some idea of the disposition of the people in America. I have the honor [&c.]