You are hereby required & directed to proceed forthwith to Cork where we have appointed you to superintend & regulate the Service of raising Men for His Majestys Fleet, and in the performance thereof you are carefully to observe the following Instructions Vizt

1st You are to take under your command such Lieutenants as shall be ordered by Us to act under you & to employ them in such manner as may be most likely to meet with success agreable to their Instructions.

2d You are to send the new raised Men whom you find to be regularly procured and fit for the Service; on board such Tenders as shall be appointed for the purpose, whose Commanders will be ordered to follow your direc-. tions, and when as many shall be put on board as she can conveniently carry you are to dispatch her away with them to Plymouth, with Orders to the Lieutenant who commands her, to dispose of them as the Commanding Officer of the Kings Ships there for the time being shall direct & then to make the best of his way back to Cork, and you are to take particular care to send with the said Men Lists of their Names & times of Entry distinguishing the Seamen from the Landmen to be delivered with them in ,order to their befog enter'd for Wages in the Ships whe:reiii they may be appointed to serve.

3d You are to draw upon the Navy Board for such Money as you shall have occasion for, to carry on this Service, and to advance what shall be necessary to the Lieutenants; always taking regular Vouchers for whatever Mony you shall so advance to them or pay upon another occasion;

4th You are not to fail to transmit to our Secretary every Week (so as to arrive at the Admiralty Office on a Monday) an Account under your own Hand according to the annexed Scheme 2 of the number of Men procured by yourself or the Lieutenants employed under you, distinguishing therein how many you may have procured in the whole & how many since the Account immediately preceeding. , 5th The better to enable you to carry on this Service you may employ a Clerk under you & allow him after the rate of Twenty Shillings a Week 6th And for your trouble & pains in the execution of these Instructions you are to have an Allowance of Two Pounds a Week (besides your half Pay) and you will be allowed Twelve Pence a Mile travelling Charges for your repairing to, and returning from the place you are hereby appointed to proceed to. Given &c 13th Feby 1776 Sandwich To Capt Michael Kearney in Town J. Buller

By &c G Jackson D.S. Palmerston