Sir,

The Charming Sally, Hope, and Russian Merchant Ordnance Storeships which were intended to have gone to North America, under Convoy of the Actaeon, but were afterwards left to go under Convoy of any other Ship that might be ordered thither, being still at Spithead waiting for Convoy; I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you therewith for Lord George Germain's Information, and to desire you will let them know if the said Ships are to proceed to Boston as at first intended, as their Lordships in that case will give Orders to the Ships of War which may convoy the first Embarkation of Troops to that part of America to take these Storeships under Convoy also. I am &c