My Lords,

I have not failed to lay before'the King Your Lordship's letter to me of the 26th ulto acquafoting me that you had ordered Captain [John] Brisbane, of His Majesty's Ship Flora, to proceed to the Clyde, and .there take under his Convoy the Transport Ships appointed to embark the Highlanders, and I am commanded by the King to signify to Your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure, that you do give Orders to Captain Brisbane that so soon as the two Highland Regiments shall be embarked on board the Transports, which; I hope, will be by the 15th instant, he do proceed therewith to Bos~ ton in No America and if, upon his Arrival in that Harbour he shall be. informed that General Howe & Vice Admiral Shuldham with the Land & Sea Forces under their Command, are removed from thence, he is to follow them, with the said Transports and Troops, to such place as they may be r~moved to, or to proceed according to such Directions as they may have left for that purpose.