You are hereby required & directed to repair forthwith in the Sloop you command to Spithead, where you are to receive on board Ten Supernumerary Seamen which Vice Adml Sir James Douglas is order'd to discharge into her, from the Barfleur towards making up the deficiency in her Complement, And, having so done, return & cruize agreable to the Orders you are now under, for the purpose of intercepting & seizing the suspected Ships & Vessels which you have lately been in quest of.

Given &c. the 27th Novr 1775.

By &c. P.S.