In Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes.
A.M. Loosed Sails to dry.
Fresh breezes and cloudy weather, with rain at times.
The Launch employed watering.
P.M. His Majesty's Ship the Boreas arrived here from Antigua with a Letter from Admiral Young,1 and having saluted with 13 Guns, I returned 11. -Ordered Captain Pringle of the Ariadne (after he should have convoyed the Trade to St. Christopher's agreeably to the orders he received from Admiral Young and in case of not meeting The Admiral there nor any orders from Him for his farther proceedings) not to remain there, but to proceed forthwith to Antigua with that ship and the Ceres to complete their Provisions and then rejoin me here;2 by him I forwarded to the Secretary of the Admiralty a Letter acknowledging the receipt of the before-mentioned papers by the Packet, and informing the Lords of my proceedings to this evening,3 and transmitted to Admiral Young a Copy of the Memorial from the Merchants &ca. of Tobago, that; as the Matter therein set forth related entirely to his Command, he might make the Report which the Lords of the Admiralty required.4
D, CtY, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Barrington Papers.
1. Vice Admiral James Young's letter of 16 July, carried by Capt. Charles Thompson on H.M. frigate Boreas, noted receipt of intelligence of Barrington's arrival at Barbadoes, left the composition of a homeward-bound convoy to Barrington's discretion, and requested Barrington send the Boreas back quickly with word regarding whether the two should meet or Young may sail immediately for England. Barrington Papers 2: 29.
2. H.M. frigate Ariadne, Capt. Thomas Pringle, commander, and H.M. ship-rigged sloop-of-war Ceres, Comdr. James Richard Dacres, commander. As seen by Barrington's journal entry of 23 July, below, he sent these vessels as escorts with the August convoy that sailed from the Leeward Islands to England.
3. See Barrington to Philip Stephens, 20 July, immediately above.
4. For more on this memorial, see Stephens to Barrington, 4 June, above. For the memorial itself, see Memorial of the Merchants and Proprietors of the Island of Tobago, between 23 and 29 May 1778, NDAR 12: 773–5.
