Gentlemen Last night at 10 O Clock I recd your Letter Dated April 3. Pst Express with a Letter from Capt Faulker [Nathaniel Falconer] with a Signal for Capt [John] Barry-which I shall take great Care shall be Answd-We have a Guard of 30 men at the Lighthouse to. Protect the Signal ー Capt Matken has been this Morning sent on shore in a Small boat with four other men by whom I Learn that they have got a Pilot James Jones and from all that I Can Collect As soon as there fleet Arrives they Design up your River ー we have this Morning sent of[f] Lieutenant [George] Ball to Dover ー and I Desire that you would send Down for him and have him Secur'd as he is Very Active on board and his being here so Long has got more intiligence than I could wish. ー the Ship now comeing to sail and from all appearance is goeing out on a Cruise as she has Done several times ー Pray send me Some Powder for signals guns at the false Cape to Alarm your Vessels standing in, as we keep up a Guard there night and Day of 24 men ー some of whom are Pilots ー I am with Due Respect [&c.]