Corunna 3 September 1777.
[Extract] No 62. My Lord.
I most humbly beg leave to refer to my last of the 30th Past, and have the Honor to acquaint Your Lordship that Cunningham, in Consequence of a Petition presented by him to the Inspector of the American Packets for that Purpose, having been provided with a Mast and other Necessaries for refitting his Vessel from the King's Stores, is now ready to sail, and intends to proceed in Company with his Prize the Black Prince directly to America. He has promised my Vice Consul in Ferrol to set the Prisoners at Liberty before he departs, in which Case I shall imediately send them to Oporto the nearest Place where there is any Probability for them to get a Passage home. . . .
1. PRO, State Papers 94/204, 161-62.