As great Inconveniency attends his Majesty's Interest, by protecting his loyal Subjects, and their Property in Virginia, and as they have suffered considerably in their Effects, and likely to suffer much more by a further Detention, Capt.A. S. Hammond, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships on this Station, and Lord Dunmore, have took into Government Service every Vessel in the Fleet that is Sea-worthy, for the Purpose of transporting the People and their Properties to any Port or Place of Safety, for which they grant Certificates and Clearances, setting forth their distressed Situation. I, with many others, took our Passage in this Ship for Glasgow; other Vessels are bound to St. Augustine, Bermuda, Antigua, London and Whitehaven. Adieu, as Signals are hove out for sailing.
