My Lord

Captain Douglas of the Isis having in his Letter of the 21th of last Month,² given my Lords Commissrs of the Admty an Account of the Success of His Majesty's Forces on the Lake Champlain & at the same time recommended to them the Gentlemen named in the inclosed Copy of the List which accompanied his Letter for their Gallant behaviour upon that Occasion; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that they have promoted Captain [Thomas] Pringle of the Lord Howe Armed Vessel, to be Captain of the Camel of 24 Guns fitting out at Deptford, and Lieut [James Richard] Dacres to be commander of the Sylph Sloop fitting out at the same place, and that they are pleased to leave it to your Lordship to fill up the vacancies occasioned thereby in such manner as Your Lordship shall judge proper.

I do not trouble your Lordship with a Copy of Captn Douglas's Letter as he informed me that he was preparing to send to you by Express the particulars contained in it; but I have herein taken leave to enclose an impression of the Gazette in which a Copy of that, as well as of Sr Guy Carleton's dispatches upon the Subject, were printed & have the honor to be &c.

By the Thames p Express at ½ past 12 at Night Duplicate sent 14 January by the Packet