Sir

Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 27th Instant acquainting them with the Advices Lord Wemouth had received from Mr Elsdon of the Capture of several Vessels in the North Sea by a Rebel Privatier Sloop or Cutter called the Pegasus Captain Allen, but supposed to be the Vessel commanded by Cunningham, which lately sailed from Dunkirk; I am commanded by their Lordships to send you, for Lord Weymouth's information, the inclosed Copies of Letters from Captain Richards, who is appointed to regulate the Impress Service at Yarmouth, and Lieutenant Moore of the Tender stationed at that port, with their several Inclosures, relative to the Recapture of the Northampton Brig, one of the Vessels taken by the Rebel Privatier abovementioned; by which it will appear that the said Privatier is unquestionably the Vessel commanded by Cunningham, with double Commissions from the Congress, and that she is partly manned with Frenchmen, Sixteen out of 21 of her Crew, which were put on board of the Northampton being of that Nation.

Their Lordships command me to add that they have ordered the 21 Persons abovementioned to be conveyed to Portsmouth to be committed to the Prison at Forton.² I am Sir [&c.]