Orders are sent to Portsmouth for his Majesty's frigates Tartar, Capt. Ommanie [Cornthwaite Ommanney] and the Pearl, Capt [Thomas] Wilkinson, of 32 guns each, to be fitted out with all dispatch for the North America station.
The Shark and Vulture, two new sloops lately launched at Deptford, are commissioned, and orderedto be fitted for sea.
