[Admiralty Office] 16th Sepr 1777
Sir
My Lords Commissrs of the Admty having received from Mr [William] Frazer Secretary to the Earl of Suffolk, a Paper giving an Account that two Ships called de Watergus, Capt Chatelain from St Eustatia to Middleburg, and de Hoop, Captn Hogerzeyl also from St Eustatia to Wissingen, were taken on the 19th of June, by His Majesty's Ship the Seaford, & carried into Antigua;2 I am commanded by their Lordships to send you herewith a Copy of the said Paper, & to signify their direction to you, to let them know the Ground upon which the said Ships have been seized, & what has since been done with them. I am &ca.
P: S:
Duplicate sent 30 Octr by the Niger
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/555, 339.
2. See Young to Stephens, June 12.
