Sir

I beg you will be pleased to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that since my last to you, dated the 22d of January last, informing their Lordships with the arrival of His Majesty's Sloop under my Command upon this station, I dispatched Lieutenant Osborn of the Raven in a Pilot Boat mann'd and Armed to a Sloop in the Offing which he took on the 4th of February; her Cargoe consisted of 56 Barrels of Gun Powder, some military stores with several Bales of goods to a considerable amount:² That on the 12 of April I seized a Brig from Philadelphia laden with stores for this Place,³ and on the day lollowing I took a Sloop from Rhode Island with Cyder and Apples⁴ which Cargoe was distributed among the sick of the different Ships by order from Captain Barkley of His Majesty's Ship Scarborough, which happily proved a great restorative to the Ships Companys health, who had long laboured under scurbutick disorders. That I have also seized a Brig late from Jamaica with Rum, Sugar and Coffee, an Account of which Vessels I shall transmit to the Commanding Officer in North America by the first opportunity.

I have the pleasure to inform their Lordships that on the night of the 15 instant, I detached the Ships Boats manned and armed under the Command of tlie Lieutenant in pursuit of a small Rebel Arm'd Schooner and a row Boat, belonging to tlie Town of Savannah, which after a few minutes brisk firing he took them both⁵ ー The Schooner has greatly infested this river for a long time, preventing all communication and intelligence being sent me from the Officers of the Crown most of whom have escaped out of the hands of the Rebels, and are gone either to England or East Florida. I am Sir [&c.]