My Lord

Having in obedience to the King's Pleasure, signified in Your Lordship's Letter of Yesterday, appointed His Majesty's Ships the Juno & Blonde to convoy the Transports which are to carry the first Embarkation of the Brunswic~ Troops, engaged to servce in North America, and to proceed to the Isle aux Coudres in the River St Lawrence, which Your Lordship represents in your Letter to be the Place of Rendezvous for the Ships & Troops destined to serve in Canada; We are to acquaint Your Lordship therewith, for the King's Information, and that as it will he inconvenient to detach one of the ,Ships to Plymouth; to lay off that Port with the Transports having the 21st Regiment on board, and highly improper for them to put to Sea before the other Convoy appears, We have, instead thereof, directed the Admiral, commanding at Plymouth, so soon as the said Regiment is embarked, (the time for which is submitted to Your Lordship) to send the Transports into the Sound, and to take care that they do immediately join the Convoy, upon a Signal to be made for that Purpose, and for which the Commander of the Convoy shall have the necessary Directions from us. We are, &c Sandwich J Buller H Penton