The King having been pleased under his Signet & Sign Manual to establish Instructions (bearing date the 2d Day of this Month) for the Commanders of His Ships & Vessels of War in regard to such Captures as shall be made by them, in consequence of an Act lately passed prohibiting all Trade & Commerce with" the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusets Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, the three lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina & Georgia, during the continuance of the present Rebellion with the said Colonies respectively; We send you herewith thirty Printed Copies of His Majesty's said Instructions and do hereby require & direct you to issue the same to the respective Captains and Commanders of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels under your Command, and to direct them to pay the strictest regard &.attention thereto. Given &c. 24th May 1776.2
Sandwich C. Spencer H. Palliser
By &c P.S. by the Winchelsea.
