Sir

I am to acquaint you I Disembarked the Three Company's of the 60th Regiment at St Augustine the 11th April 1776, agreeable to your directions. On my Arrival there found in the Harbour His Majesty's Armed Schooner Hinchinbrook, Commanded by Lieutenant [Alexander] Ellis, who informed me he had intelligence of the Rebels fitting Arm'd Vessels in the adjacent Rivers. I thought it my duty to give him directions to keep company with the Hind under my Command, and Sailed to the Northward. The 21st of April we Anchored off Sunbury River. I dispatched the Hinchinbrook with our Tender and Boats Mann'd and Arm'd over the Bar. The 25th Lieutenant Ellis informed me of their having set on fire a Brig that was Loading, and a Ship on the Stocks, which he was informed the Rebels intended for a Twenty Gun Privateer. On their return they were attack'd by about 6 hundred and Fifty or Sixty Crackers (Rebels in Georgia so called) on the Island of St Catherine, but after half an hours engagement they retreated to the Woods. No damage was done on our side except to the Tender's Hull and Sails, and on the 26th made the best of my way for Antigua.

The 10th May in Lattitude 19°.06'No Four large Ships; gave Chace and come up with the Sternmost which proved to be a large Spanish Ship about Eight or Nine hundred Tons full of Troops from Cadiz bound to Porto Rico, she informed me the other three in Company were Spanish Men of War, bound to the same place. I have the honour to be Sir [&c.]