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You are hereby required and directed to proceed to Sea with His Majts Ship under your command and cruize for one Month after you get upon your Station from 5. to 30. Leagues West from Cape Finisterre, for the protection of the Trade of His Majesty's Subjects, and to look out for any Privatiers belonging to His Majts Rebellious Colonies that may infest those parts, using your best endeavours to...
Date: 17 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
You are hereby required and directed, to return forthwith in the Ship you command, and cruize very diligently again for the space of Ten days more, between Dungeness and the Coast of France, to endeavour to intercept the Vessels mention'd & described in our Order to you of the 28th of last Month; And, not falling in with, or receiving any good Intelligence to induce you to expect to fall in...
Date: 14 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith a Copy of some late Intelligence which has been transmitted by Mr Mathias to the Earl of Suffolk, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in relation to a Ship said to be laden with Warlike Stores for the Rebels in North America by Captain Slander, and to have been on the point of sailing from Gluckstadt...
Date: 28 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
You are hereby required and directed to return and cruize in the Ship you command between Dungeness and the Coast of France, and use your best endeavours to intercept seize and bring into Port the suspected Vessels concerning which you have already received our directions; calling once in a Week or Ten days in the Downes to enquire for Orders, and not finding any to return and cruize in like...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
You are hereby required & directed to proceed forthwith in His Majestys Ship under your command to Spithead where we have ordered her Provisions to be completed to Eight Months of all Species except Beer of which she is to have as much as she can conveniently stow, & Stored to a proper proportion for Foreign Service; using all possible dispatch in getting the same on board & holding...
Date: 10 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Whereas we have thought fit that the Complement of the Ship you command shall be encreased to Two Hundred Men to serve on board during her present intended Voyage & having for that end given directions to Vice Adml Sr Jas Douglas Commr in Chief of His Majts Ships & Vessels at Portsmouth to cause Twenty Men to be lent from the Guardships at that Port; You are therefore hereby required...
Date: 17 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Secret Committee of the East India Company having transmitted to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty a Pacquet addressed to you containing some Cautions & Signals for you to observe when you make the Island of St Helena; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to pay attention thereto.
I am further directed by their Lordships at the desire of the said...
Date: 25 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Orders you will receive herewith from my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty being of a private nature; I have it in command from them signify their direction to you not to reveal the contents thereof to any one but the Captain of the Thetis, whom you are to enjoin to observe a like Secrecy. I am &ca
Date: 26 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3