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My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having received Accounts from Dunkirk dated the 18th Instant that the Greyhound Cutter2 sailed from thence the preceeding Night and was seen off Ostend the following Morning;3 I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you therewith that you may signify the same to the Captains of such of His Majesty's Cruizers as may sail from...
Date: 20 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have particularly examined the Prisoners taken in the Grace, and have no reason to believe that Robert McCaver was detained against his Inclination on board the Rebel Privateer as set forth in his Petition, but rather active in their Service — Had it been otherways many Opportunities had offered to favor his Escape since he left Philadelphia, and particularly as she has used no other Ports than...
Date: 22 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
My Lords Commissrs of the Admty having taken into Consideration the Petition you transmitted to me in your Letter of the 19th Inst signed by sixteen Rebel Prisoners confin'd in Forton Prison, wherein they pray to have the liberty to enter into the Service of His Majesty on board the Monarch; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that as the Petitioners are committed by a Magistrate...
Date: 25 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9