Sir,

You will be pleased to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, That I arrived with his Majesty's Ship under my command at Hallifax the 7th Tuly, in a distressed situation after a tedious and fatigueing passage of nine Weeks.

We parted Company with the Commodore the 28th of May in a heavy Gale of Wind westerly, and we by our account about 330 Leagues to the Westward of the Start. the Ship complaining much in all her Upper works fore and aft, but more particularly forward; was under the necessity of fraping her in four or five different places, two across the Forecastle the others in the Waist. The weakness of the Ship forward encreased and became very alarming so that it was absolutely necessary something should be done to relieve her. On the 29th in the Morning I consulted with my Officers and it was unanimously agreed to cut away the Bower Anchors, and to stave and throw overboard the flat botom'd Boat. after which we experi- enc'd a most sensible alteration in the Ship for the better, for before, every lee Lurch that she took we had the disagreable prospect, of seeing the upper Works of the Forecastle carried away with the Anchors, And had the Gale continued twenty four hours longer, I will vencure to assert that we should not have had a Mast standing, for both main and!fore Channel Bolts work'd out in such a manner, that I myself hauled one of the main ones out by hand. ー The 31st we join'd the Commodore, at which time I was much indisposed, but communicated to him by Letter the state and Condition of the Ship, and at the same time enclosed a Copy of the visible defects taken by the Carpenter the Day before agreable to my Order. ー He ordered his Carpenter on board, with his Mate, and with the Carpenter of the Jersey to survey the Ship, A Copy of which Survey, with a Copy of that taken by the Carpenter of said Ship 30th May, I have delivered in to Lord Howe. ー We parted Company again the 3d of July in a very thick Fogg and a strong Gale, and from the Guns that were fired supposed the Commodore had brought too with his Head to the Eastward, we being at Noon of that Day by our reckoning 30 Leagues to the westward of Cape Sambro, at half past 7 that evening it cleared up and only one Sail in sight. The next Morning I opened my Rendezvous and found it to be for Halifax. I accordingly made the best of my way, and arrived there as beiore mentioned where I stayed twenty Days to refit If I may be allolved to give it that appelation. ー We sailed from thence the 27th and Anchored without the Barr off Sandy Hook the 14th of August in the Evening, and on Saturday forenoon joined Lord Howe off Staten Island. ー This is the first opportunity I have had of transmitting to their Lordships any account of the Ship since my leaving England, but do suppose his Lordship may have made some mention of her to the Board of Admiralty by a Pacquet which sailed from Sandy Hook a-fortnight since and that so suddenly that she was under way in two Hours after I received the intelligence and the Jersey at that time laying four Leagues distance from her, ー So that I flatter myself their Lordships will not think me guilty of any omission. ー I am with all due respect. Sir [&c.]