M Merivale
Answer that in the month of
Feb last M Labouchere, forseeing the
importance of protecting the Settlement, requested the L.C.
Admiralty
to despatch a Ship of War there, & that "the
President," frigate having
in consequence been ordered to repair to
V.C.I. M Labouchere trusts
that the apprehensions of the Colonists as to an attack upon them by the
Indians will be removed.