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Sir/ I have the honor to transmit you Copys of two letters I have received from the Agents of the Transports. As times are become more critical than ever; and by Information both to you and myself, the Rebels have a Number of boats, with which they can mean us no good, I am to beg of you to make such a desposition of the Transports as may put them beyond danger from the Enemy and under the protection of his Majesty's Ships, I am likewise to beg you to consider the situation of the Symmetry and to take such measures as to make her servicable, and as soon as you are enabled to place some Ship of War in her Station that may do the duty effectually; when she may be removed,
I am with great Regard, Sir, &ca