Sir

Mr Miller late Master of the sloop Morning Star taken off Black River bar on Mosquito Shore the 30th day of April last arrived here on the 6th Inst in order to procure a Vessel to carry dispatches to his Excellency Sir Basil Keith and yourself ー To these dispatches and such accounts as Mr Miller shall give of that unwarrantable Capture, we beg leave to refer you. And as his Majesty's Subjects, residing in the Bay of Honduras, as well as the Merchant Vessels now loading here (of which there are now twenty sail in the different Harbours) think themselves open and defenceless as they are liable to the like insults and danger of the same depredations: WE Therefore take the liberty of laying before you our critical situation, and most humbly crave such assistance as you shall think proper to afford us, and the exigency of the affair requires. ー We are with great Respect Sir [&c.]

[Endorsed] May 13 76 Bay of Honduras  Letter from the principal Inhabitants requesting assistance being greatly alarm'd at the Spaniards Seizing a Sloop in Black River Road.