Sir,

You will please to proceed to the Tail of the Horse Shoe Shoal,¹ as soon as your Provisions are Complete, to guard the entrance of the Bay, agreeable to Your orders upon that head, where you will find the Solebay² and Senegal,³ to co-operate with you; and you will be pleased to place the Ships at distances from each other, from the Middle Ground to Cape Henry, the more effectually to prevent any Vessels from escaping in or out of the Bay; and to remain at that Anchorage for fourteen days, from the time of Your leaving this, then to return here. And should you have occasion to Chace up the Bay, or out of the Capes, you are to return to Your Station with all possible expedition, as great inconvenience may arrise to His Majesty's Service from Your absence. 

I am to inform you the Vice Admiral the Viscount Howe, desires the Captains will be particular to Note, by an explanation on the backs of their Weekly Account, "the Quality of the men borne Supernumery, to the Comp^ts:, Specifying whether such men are Seamen, fit to be return'd for Service in the Fleet, or Prisoners, and other, persons incapable of being so appointed:"—A Weekly Account to be sent to me every fourteen days, or as soon afterwards, as an opportunity offers, together with a list of Prizes taken or destroyed, agreeable to the Vice Admira^s: form, in order to my being prepared at every opportunity to transmitt them to him. I am [&c.]

P.S. Inclosed are the Ships Signals, and desire to inform you, it is the Viscount Howes pleasure, negroes are not kept on board Kings Ships. this I think should be kept private if possible. 

B.C.