Sir

Lord George Germain, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State having in his Letter of yesterdays date signified to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the Kings Pleasure that orders be given to you to transmit to his Lordship the Nine Packets delivered to you by the Master of the Ship Sampson and that you do also cause strict search to be made for any other Papers that may be concealed on board the said Ship, and if any are found (not being the Ships Papers) to transmit them in like manner to his Lordship; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to deliver to the Bearer Board the said Nine Packets and such others as may upon the aforementioned examination be found on board in order to his carrying the same to Lord George Germain accordingly. I am &c Geo. Jackson D.S. By Haysom the Messenger at ¾ past 5 o'Clock P.M.