You are hereby required & directed so soon as you shall have taken on board the Bomb Vessel you command her Guns, Mortars & Ordnance Stores to proceed without a moments loss of time to Spithead & there wait until you receive further Order.
Sandwich J Buller Palmerston
Given &c 11th Decr 1775
By &c G J DS
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/100, 297.
