Sir I desire you will please to acquaint the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that Vice Admiral [James] Young arrived in English Harbour in His Majesty's Ship Portland on the 8th of June last, and likewise the Pomona Sloop and the next day I waited on him and received their Lordships Orders of the 15th of April last for my return to England, Agreeable to which, I delivered to him all such orders as remained unexecuted, and informed him of every particular respecting the State and Disposition of the Squadron, and of every other matter relative to the Command.
On the 11th I sailed in His Majesty's Ship Chatham from St. John's Road for England, as did His Majesty's Sloop Favorite, with Orders to stop a few hours at St. Christophers to take in some sweet Water, her Captain having represented to me that great part of what they had on board was stinking and unfit to drink.
I wrote to you by His Majesty's Ship Deal Castle, which dispatches Captain [James] Cummings put in the Post this day; I anchored at Spithead Yesterday at 4 O'clock in the afternoon, and the Deal Castle at 5.
On Saturday last [July 8] about 8 O'clock in the evening I spoke with Sir Peter Parker in His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak, in Company with three other Ships of the Line, and a Frigate about 22 Leagues West of Scilly.
I am Sir [&c.]
Chatham at Spithead the 11th of July 1775
