Sir
Inclosed I have the honour to send you an Order Sr Peter Parker was pleased to give me on the third of last June appointing me to the Command of the Friendship Armed Ship, which I am to beg you will be pleased to move their Lordships for confirmation.
I likewise send you inclosed Sr Peter Parkers order for my proceeding to England in His Majesty's Sloop Ranger with his dispatches with which I arrived at Spithead Yesterday Morning the 21 of August and I have the honour to be Sr [&c.]
Cs Hope
[London] August 22d 1776
[Endorsed] 22 Augt to be confirmed
1. PRO, Admiralty 1/1902, 23, 1.
