English Harbour Antigua 3d April 1776
(No 4)
Sir The inclosed Papers marked No L..1.,gare Copies of some intercepted Letters, and Intelligence brought me; which I requested may be Communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, as also those marked No ± and 12.,being Copyof a Letter, I thought necessary to write to the Compte
De Nosier, Governor of Martinique, in consequance of the aforesaid Intelligence, and his answer thereto ー I sent Captain Robert Keeler in the Lynx Sloop with my Dispatch to Martinique on the above occasion, that he might be enabled at his arrival in England, to give their Lordships a more particular and circumstantial Account of the manner in which the Americans carry on their Trade, at the French Islands; ー to Him I therefore refer, and am Sir [&c.]
Jam Young.