We have received your letter of 24 October about the preservation of the magazines in the yards and the ships building there, as well as those in ordinary and we give you the following directions: (1) the yards at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth are to be supplied with such firearms, swords and ammunition as the commissioners there think proper and the yards at Deptford and Woolwich with such quantities as the officers there shall demand from time to time. (2) the Commander-in-Chief at the Buoy of the Nore and in the River Medway to have the two scout boats constantly going every night among the ships. You are to give orders to have the same done at Portsmouth and at Plymouth to direct that one of the boats from the guardship to be manned every night and employed in going among the ships there. For the yards at Deptford and Woolwich you are to order that they also have boats from the ships there, constantly employed every night going among the ships there. (3) You are to give orders that not more than one gate be kept open in each yard.