Sir
Lieut Cunningham, who is employed at Dublin on the Service of raising Men having acquainted my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that he has received information that Henry Watson a Seaman whose description is on the otherside hereof, and who entered with him the 12th instant for His Majesty's Ship Diamond, and was sent to Portsmouth in the Brig Neptune the day following, was the Mate of a Vessel under Seizure at Dublin, for having carried Gun Powder to America for the use of the Rebels: I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to give the necessary directions for keeping the said Watson on board one of the Guardships at Spithead until farther Orders, that he may be forth coming is [sic in] case he should be wanted as an Evidence, I am &c
Captn Milbank, Senior Officer at Portsmouth
Henry Watson Is about 36 Years Old 5 Feet 4 incs high black Hair a remarkable Mark over his right Eye, and born at Banff in Scotland,
