I am also to acquaint you that Mr Douglass, the first Lieutenant of His Majestys frigate the Winchelsea has been some time under my care, and seems to benefit but little from the Methods pursued for his Recovery. I would recommend a change of Climate as most conducive to reestablish his Health, which is indeed much impair'd, and is dayly growing worse. He has long labour'd under the influence of a Slow nervious Fever, attended with a Cough, an obstinate constipation of Body, which frequently throws him into faintings, and deprives him of the use of his Limbs, both Muscular and Nervious Systems seem much debilated, and his Memory at times fails him, in concequence of which, his remaining here (as the warm Season approaches fast) may be attended with fatal concequences

Lieut Lisle of the Marines of the said Frigate, being much in the same Situation, & of a very Scorbutick Habit of Body, much afflicted with the Rhumatism and his Mental faculties much impair'd from old Age, being upwards of Sixty, is in my opinion very unfit for Discharging his Duty as an officer in this Climate, I would therefore recommend his going to England the first oppertu[nity] that offers: hoping this may meet with your Approbation

[To] Clark Gayton (A Copy)