Orders are given for all the small ships and sloops of war now lying up at Deptford, Sheerness, Chatham, and Portsmouth, to be fitted out against the Spring, to be employed as cruizers, &c. On Wednesday his Majesty's ship the Fox, Capt [Patrick] Fotherington, went out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead.

Yesterday the crews of the Charlotte, William and Mary, and Fubbs yatchts, sailed on board the Royal Escape for Harwich to bring up the Royal Sultan (the largest seventy-four gun ship in the navy) which is to be repaired, and fitted for the American service.