Having ordered the Provisions of His Majts Ship under your command to be completed to Four Months of all species except Beer of which she is to have as much as she can conveniently stow, and be supplied with one Months Wine or Spirits in lieu of the remainder; You are hereby required & directed to use the utmost dispatch in getting the same on board & then repair into the Sound and wait for further Order.
Sandwich J Buller H. Palliser
Given &c 19th Decr 1775
By &c. GJ DS.
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/100, 318. An order using the same wording was issued the same day to Captain William Bennett, of H.M. Sloop Alborough, also at Plymouth.
