A Letter was brought to the Admiral from General [Thomas] Gage with, and he also received Intelligence that a pirate Sloop from Mechias had been seen in the Bason of Minas in the bay of Fundy, but he informed Governor Legge that two armed Schooners were gone in quest of her, that the Senegal was likewise in that bay that he could constantly keep some of the Kings vessels on the western Coast of Nova Scotia for the security of the traders to & from those parts to Boston & Halifax.