Having appointed you Captain of His Majts Ship Brune at Chatham which we have order'd to be fitted & stored at that place for foreign Service mann'd with Two hundred Men and victualled for six Months with all species of Provisions except Beer, of which she is to have as much as she can conveniently stow, and to be supplied with a proportion of Wine or Spirits for two Months in lieu of the remainder; You are hereby required and directed, to use the utmost dispatch in getting her ready for the Sea accordingly, and then falling down to Blackstakes take in her Guns & Gunners Stores and proceed to the [Nore] for further Orders.

Given &c. the 30th Decr 1775.

By &c. G.J. DS.