By &c.
Whereas we have appointed Rear Adml Sir Peter Parker (by whom you will receive this) to relieve you in the command of the Kings Ships & Vessels employed and to be employed at and about Jamaica &c. You are hereby required & directed to return to England in His Majts Ship Antelope, as soon as possible after the said Rear Admiral's arrival, and to repair to Spithead, where you are to remain til' further Order; sending us an Account of your arrival & proceedings; taking care to deliver to him attested Copies of your original Instructions, & also of all such Orders & Directions as you may have received since, which may remain, in the whole, or in part unexecuted, and communicating to him any Intelligence or Advices you may have received, & such particulars respecting the State & Disposition of the abovemention'd Ships & Vessels, as may be necessary for his Information & Guidance in carrying on the said command. Given &c. the 24th June 1777.
Sandwich Lisburne H. Palliser
To Clark Gayton Esqr Vice Admiral of the White &c. — at Jamaica By &c. P.S.
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/ 103, 62-63.
