Pallas at Spithead 17th November 1776
Sir
I beg you will be pleased to acquaint their Lordships that there is on board his Majesty's Ship under my Command a Person who called himself Lieutenant of the Privateer that took the Anne Merchant Ship whose Commission and Instructions I have enclosed. I am Sir [&c.]
W: Cornwallis
1. PRO, Admiralty 1/1611, 3, 12.
