Number 10.
Sir,

I take the Opportunity of writing by a Victualling Transport returning to Cork in the Service of the Army, to give their Lordships the earliest Intelligence of the Arrival of the second Division of the Hessian Troops with the Diamond, Ambuscade, and Unicorn, the 18th Instant: Captain [Charles] Fielding having conducted the Transports under his Convoy with so much Prudence and Success as not to have lost a single Ship on the Passage.

The Commanders of the Daphne and Perseus have not been equally happy in their Endeavors. The first arrived on the 3d and the latter on the 16th of this Month. Of the Transports which sailed with the Daphne, the Henry and Ann is still missing; As are also the four Victuallers, the Hayfield, St George, Friendship and George, that came out under the care of the Perseus.² The Dinah Victualler, another of the same Convoy, hath been taken as represented in the Relation of the Master enclosed. But no Account has yet been received of the other Victuallers since their Separation.³ A Copy of the Report has been sent to Captain Elphinstone for his Observations thereon. These I shall have to transmit for their Lordships Information, when he returns from the Cruising Service on which he is now employed.

The different Corps of Troops from the Transports beforementioned, have been landed; The last of the Hessian Reinforcement to-day; at Myers Neck, a Peninsula near New Rochelle, that is deemed the best situated Post for preserving an open Communication with the Fleet, since the last Landing and Movement of the Army to the Eastward of the Rebel Forces assembled on the Side of Kingsbridge, on the 18th Instant.

As from the Nature of the Conveyance it is un[certain] when this Letter may be received, I have confined [my] present Report to the Arrival of the Convoys. I am Sir [&c.]