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My Lords Commrs of the Admty having received an Article of Intelligence 2 which appears very necessary for your information; I am commanded by their Lordships to send you inclosed a Copy thereof I am &c
Date: 8 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
My Lords Commrs of the Admty having procured a Set of Draughts for different parts of the Coast of No America which have never yet been published; I have it in command from their Lordships to send You the same herewith for your information &c
Date: 8 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having, in their General Instructions of the 14th of last Month, observed to you that Rear Admiral Shuldham had been apprized of the Expedition on which you are employed and the grounds on which it was adopted; I have it now in Command from their Lordships to acquaint you that the Triton, which was to carry the Dispatches containing the said Information and...
Date: 8 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir Hugh Palliser has desired me, upon the Paper of Memoranda which you inclosed to him for private Information, in your letter of the 7th of January, to desire you will please to inform me.
First, the Names of the three Victuallers which have been taken up by the Treasury, also their Masters, & where they lie.
2d The Size or Dimensions of the Sloops propased for the Navigation of Lake...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
My Lord George Germaine having transmitted to my Lords Commrs of the Admiralty a return He had received from Major General [William] Howe of the Transports in His Majts Service at Boston by which it appears the greatest part of the said Ships are deficient in the Compliments of Men which by the Charter Parties with the Owners they are required to have; And the General observing that sixty five of...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Vice Adml Graves having in his letter of the 10th of Octr requested to have some of the General Printed Instructions to deliver to such Gentlemen as may be appointed Lieutenants, also a few Extracts from Marine Treaties, & Statutes, I have therefore taken the opportunity of sending you by His Majesty's Ship Milford, a Box, containing Six Books of Statutes, Six of Marine Treaties, & twelve...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your letter of Yesterday's Date, inclosing an Extract of a letter from Mr Crawford to the Earl of Suffolk, containing particular Intelligence of several Pieces of Cannon, with a quantity of Ball & Chain Bullets, being put on board a Dutch West India Vessel at Flushing, and of the sailing of the Brigantine therein referr'd to; Their Lordships...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I am commanded by My Lords Commrs of the Admiralty to desire you will be at the trouble to learn, and inform them, if any of the Transports, which will be first ready for Service, are intended for the reception of Horses, such Information being necessary with respect to the further Orders their Lordships may give for their Equipment. I am &c.
Date: 15 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I am commanded by my Lords Commrs of the Admty to send you herewith a Copy of their Order address'd to Vice Adml Graves or the Commr in Chief of His Majts Ships at Boston dated the 15th Octo last, directing him to Station one of the small Ships of His Squadron at the Bermuda Islands & another at the Island of Providence for the safety & preservation of the Ordnance & Stores belonging...
Date: 16 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of yesterday's date, informing them of your having sent the Seventy american Prisoners from the Tartar on board the Centaur and that as all of them were bare of Cloaths and some of them almost naked you have ordered each of them except the Officers to be supplied with a Suit of Slop Cloaths to be washed and cleaned, and...
Date: 17 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Having communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 15th Instant, transmitting in original a Letter you received from the Physician and Council of Haslar Hospital, with an order from Sir James Douglas addressed to the Agent directing him to receive into the said Hospital Seventy Prisoners from New England, and desiring that you may receive their Lordships directions...
Date: 17 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Navy Board having informed My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the Dorothy Transport, which is fitted to carry 100. Soldiers of the 29th Regiment from Sheerness to Plymouth, would have sailed the 14th if the great Quantitys of Ice iri the River had not prevented, and that the same Cause had made it impossible for anything to be done on board the Lord Howe and the Bute Transports,...
Date: 19 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Charming Sally, Hope, and Russian Merchant Ordnance Storeships which were intended to have gone to North America, under Convoy of the Actaeon, but were afterwards left to go under Convoy of any other Ship that might be ordered thither, being still at Spithead waiting for Convoy; I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you therewith for Lord George Germain's...
Date: 20 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I am commanded by my Lords Commrs of the Admty to signify their direction to you in consequence of what passed on your attendance upon them this Morning upon the Subject of providing Ships to serve as Armed Vessels in No America, to propose to them a method of taking up Ships for this Service, observing that if such Vessels as offer are capable of being Armed, it will not be necessary to pay...
Date: 20 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
A Paper of Intelligence having been transmitted to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty representing that two Ships, one to carry 34 Guns, & the other 30, with two single decked Brigantines to mount 16 Guns each, are fitting out at Philadelphia, and that they were to be joined by a 20 Gun Ship from Rhode Island, and to proceed to the Island of Ascension and cruize betwixt that, place...
Date: 21 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty upon a consideration of the Orders proper to be given to the Arethusa and Thetis, have thought it may be most adviseable instead of ordering One of them to go directly to St Helena and the other to Ascension, to order them both to call at Ascension; but they do not choose to give their Orders for so doing 'till they have had an opportunity of knowing...
Date: 23 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I send you herewith an order from my Lords Commrs of the Admty directing you to Order the American Prisoners to be distributed on board the Guardships under your command
It is their Lordships direction that you send me the Names of the American Officers who came home Prisoners with the aforementioned Men And that in the mean time you do keep them under proper confinement on board one of the said...
Date: 24 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Secret Committee of the East India Company having transmitted to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty a Pacquet addressed to you containing some Cautions & Signals for you to observe when you make the Island of St Helena; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to pay attention thereto.
I am further directed by their Lordships at the desire of the said...
Date: 25 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Orders you will receive herewith from my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty being of a private nature; I have it in command from them signify their direction to you not to reveal the contents thereof to any one but the Captain of the Thetis, whom you are to enjoin to observe a like Secrecy. I am &ca
Date: 26 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty intending that His Majesty's Ship the Greyhound, which is proposed to join the Squadron under the Command of Rear Admiral Shuldham, shall Sail without loss of time to Cork, and take such Ships as shall desire to proceed under her Convoy from thence to Boston; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you therewith for Lord George Germain's Information,...
Date: 29 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3