28th Novr 1776
Sr
The Earl of Suffolk, One of His Majts Principal Secretaries of State, having transmitted to my Lords Commts of the Admty the Copy of a Memorial which he has received from Monsr de Hannahon the Danish Charge d'Affaires complaining of the Conduct of Captain Brine [Henry Bryne] of His Majesty's Ship the Hind, in the Road of Frederickstadt off one of the Danish West India Islands, and signified His Majesty's Pleasure, that immediate enquiry be made into the Complaint contained therein. I am commanded by their Lordships to send you herewith a Copy of the said Memorial and to signify their direction to you to make immediate Enquiry into the Matters therein complained of, and to report to them, by the very first opportunity, how the same shall appear. I am &c:
P. S.
By the Glasgow at Portsmouth
1. PRO, Admiralty 2/553, 223-24.
