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Ajax Port Royal Harbour Jamaica 8th. October 1782. Sir/ The enclosed papers No. 1 & 2. are copies of Intelligence, I have procured from a Prize Schooner, captured by His Majestys Ship Ullysses, and bound from the Havannah to Cape Francois, with Letters and Sixty Thousand Dollars; also some Intelligence from the Cape. you will therefore see the necessity, of a Force being immediately sent, for the Protection of this valuable Island, and doubt not, you will give every Assistance in your Power, by sending such Ships as you may judge necessary for its defence, no Exertions on my part shall be wanting. The Spaniards from every report certainly intend to Rendezvous at Cape Francois with their Fleet, the latter end of this Month or early in November: Governor Campbell writes by this Express to Sir Guy Carleton, for what Assistance is in his Power to send. the Force we have now here are very sickely, but should Assistance arrive, before the Enemy are able to proceed, I [[catchword]] doubt [[/catchword]]
