Under this and other Covers by the same Conveyance, you will receive the Judgments and Minutes of several Courts Martial held in this Fleet on different Occasions.

Upon the Subject of that assembled the 23d of January herewith enclosed, for the Trial of the First Lieutenant, Gunner and Gunner's Crew of the Diamond by Order of Sir Peter Parker, in consequence of a Letter from Captain [Charles] Feilding representing that five Men had been killed and two wounded in the Grand Duke of Russia Transport by a Shot fired from the Diamond in a Salute; I am to observe that as the Proceedings in the Case were founded on a Charge exhibited in a Letter from Captain Feilding, a Member of the-Court; and that the Acquittal extended to no other Crime besides a Neglect of Duty in the Parties, who are only described by their Official Characters, not by Name; I thought it requisite to signify those Exceptions to Sir Peter Parker. . . .

[Endorsed] 3 July 1777 New York Lord Howe R 22d Augt