You are hereby required & directed to repair with His Majs Ship under your command into Portsmouth Harbour where we have ordered her to be cleaned, graved & refitted Stored for Foreign Service & her provisions completed to Six months of aH Species except Beer of which she is to have as much as she can conveniently stow, & to be supplied with a proportion of Wine or Spirits for two Months in lieu of the remainder.
Applying to the Commanding Officer at Portsmouth for the security of his Men
And repairing when ready to Spithead for further Order. 2
Sandwich J Buller H Palliser
Given &c. 10th Jany 1776
By. &c G J DS
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/100, 349-50.
2. Ibid., the last two paragraphs appear on page 350, and read as if they were a memorandum by the deputy secretary of what he intended to put into proper letter form.
