Admiralty. May 2nd [1776]. half past 8 o'clock P.M.
Lord Sandwich has the honor to Transmit to Your Majesty the letters just received from Admiral Shuldham.
Lord Sandwich has a private letter from the Admiral which he will send to your Majesty to morrow morning, but presumes to keep it this evening that it may be shewn to the Committee of your Majesty's servants who are to meet at nine o'clock; as it appears in that letter, that the army allmost totally subsists on what Mr. Shuldham has been able to spare from the Naval stock of provisions.
1. Fortescue, ed., Correspondence of George III, III, 355.
