Gentn

My Lords Commissrs of the Admty having Ordered Mr Seddon their Solicitor to direct his Agents at Portsmouth and Plymouth, so soon as they shall be respectively informed that the Prisons which by their Lordships order of the 19th of last Month you were directed to prepare for the Reception of the persons therein mentioned shall be in all respects ready, to apply to the Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at those ports for such of the said Persons, As now are in confinement on board any of the said Ships or Vessels or as may hereafter be brought in there, and then to take them before the Principal Civil Majistrate on the Spot at such times, in such numbers at a time, and under such guard as upon consultation with such Commander in Chief to whom correspondent directions have been given, and Civil Majistrates shall be judged most proper, in order to their being examined by such Majistrates, and if they shall see cause, committed to the aforesaid prisons. I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to give orders to the persons who are appointed Keepers & Agents to the said prisons, to let Mr Seddons said Agents respectively know when the Centinels are appointed, and the Prisons are in every other respect ready for the reception of the persons abovementioned, that application may be made to the Commanders in Chief accordingly, and that the Persons who may be committed by the Civil Magistrates may be received into the said prisons pursuant to the direction for that purpose contained in their Lordships Order abovementioned. I am Gentn [&c.]

Commissrs for taking care of
Sick & Hurt Seamen
[Endorsed] Recd 9 [May]