I wrote to you by a Merchant Ship the 15th of Septr in which I desired you would be pleased to acquaint their Lordships, that we were so short of water that unless we had a fair Wind very soon I should be obliged to put into some Port, we have since been very unlucky in our Winds and not meeting with any Men of War, I propose putting into some harbour in New- foundland to get water; Thirteen of the Convoy parted company in a Gale of Wind, the rest have parted by request or of their own accord, as we have taken the greatest pains the whole Voyage to keep them together and never have steered out of their Course only gone a little more to the Northward than they chose. On the 30th Septr we retook a Ship that had been taken by an American Sloop Privateer the last day of August in Latitude 42° N; Longde 39° W, she was call'd the Anne bound from Dominica to London they were carrying her to New York. We Yesterday chased a Brig which we took to be an American Privateer, but she got away in the Night. I am Sir [&c.]