Sir,

I inclose you a list of the officers' rank and appointments agreeable to their settlement when met for that purpose 16th inst.: also a general return of the third Regiment, and the names of the Captains and other officers, whom I shall take with me to the Northward.

The Regiment, Sir, has greatly suffered by the enlistment of the soldiers in the service of South Carolina & Georgia, and by desertion, and are now every night running off. I wish a proper mode might be established, to deter inhabitants from harbouring all such.