In your letter of yesterday's date you opined that it will be for the Service to send the MEDWAY PRIZE to Sheerness and cut her down there, fit her, and employ her as a Hulk in place of the LEOPARD, which is worn out. We approve of this and direct you to cause this to be put into execution accordingly, sending us an Estimate of the Charge involved. We have considered your letter of the 11th inst; to our Secretary, with the copy of one from Mr Thomas Carver of Bideford, concerning the Stores of the THUNDERBOLT PRIZE, salved and now at that Port. We direct you to cause them to be disposed of there to the best advantage. You have proposed it as necessary that Mr Bridger and Mr Holland, who are now employed to inspect into what Naval Stores of the Growth of New England may be fit for HM Service, should be directed to examine the Eastern as well as the other parts of those Countries, as they propose, and to send home specimens of all the Naval Stores those Countries do, or can, produce, with the Accounts required by their Instructions in relation thereto we direct you to give Orders to do this with all speed and husbandry.