Sir,

Having this day received from Capt. [Robert P.] Cooper, Commander of His Majesty's Sloop the Hawke, (which sailed from England on the 26th of November last, with the Dispatches mentioned in the annexed Schedule from Lord George Germain to the Governors of the Southern Provinces of North America) a Letter dated at Barbadoes the 10th Febry last, giving an Account of his Arrival there the Day before, having met with a Hurricane on the 22d of the Month preceding, which had made it immediately necessary for him to cut away some of his Masts, and to throw his Guns overboard, and that he was preparing to sail for English Harbour in Antigua, where he hoped in a short time to be put in a Condition to proceed agreeable to the Orders he was under; I am commanded by my Lords Commissrs of the Admiralty to acquaint you therewith, for the Information of Lord George Germain. I am &c

Schedule of Pacquets in the preceding Letter; Vizt