My Lord

Lieutenant Oakly Commander of the Union Tender, having represented to their Lordships that on the 24th past he discovered that the impressed Men on board had formed and near executed a Plan for their Escape from the said Tender, and that John Goldsworthy one of her Company had assisted therein, and recommended that he shou'd be put on board one of His Majestys Ships, being a Troublesome, mutinous & seditious Fellow. I am commanded by their Lordships to recommend it to you to take the said Man out of the Tender and put him on board one of the Ships at Plymouth going abroad. I am &c.