[Extract]
Lord Sandwich allso desires to inform your Majesty that the Ordnance Board (as he is informed by Mr Wilkinson the Agent for transports) recieved an anonimous letter to the same purpose as that written to Captain [Archibald] Dickson,2 before the Hope Storeship sailed from Portsmouth; in consequence of which they sent orders that the passenger who had been mentioned as in connection with the rebels, should be sent on shore and not be allowed to proceed in the Storeship to America.
Mr Wilkinson who is employed as a broker for transports by the Navy Board, is allso employed by the Ordnance, and let the Hope to that department.
July 10th: [1776] 4. P:M:
1. Fortescue, ed., Correspondence of George III, III, 388-89.
2. Captain of H.M.S. Greyhound, under whose convoy the powder ship Hope sailed for America. See Volume 5 for capture of Hope by Washington's schooner Franklin.
