My Lord

Captain [James] Worth the Regulating Captain at Liverpool, having in his letter of the 27th past informed my Lords Commissrs of the Admty that a Bermuda built Sloop called the Active, John Osborne Master bound from South Carolina to France has been brought into Liverpool by Joseph Ring the 2d Mate who with three other English Men and two Dutch Men rose and took possession of her; And their Lordships having directed Capn Worth to send the Crew of the said Vessel (except the Mate and five men abovementioned) by the first Tender to Plymouth to be disposed of as your Lordship shall direct; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you therewith and that the said Persons are to be sent to Mill Prison having been taken in an Armed Vessel with a Commission from the Congress. I am &ca

PS. It appears that John Osborne late master and Jos: Price Chief Mate of the said Vessel was set on shore by a Pilot boat they met off Kinsale.