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The MARY, yacht, to be cleaned and fitted at Deptford, for the Channel.

You are directed to give orders to the Commissioners of the Victualling to have the SUNDERLAND and LINCOLN, two ships of the West India squadron, to be supplied with provisions ordered them, the former at Portsmouth and the other either there or in the Downes.

Having resolved that the SCARBOROUGH, lately retaken from the French and sent to Plymouth, is now to be called the MILFORD, you are directed to enter and register her on the list of the Royal Navy accordingly.

You are directed to have the SWALLOW and ESSEX prizes cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth for service in the Channel and victualled for 3 months.

Orders are given for the SUFFOLK now completing at Sir Henry Johnson's Yard at Blackwall to be launched and laid up at a place of the Navy Board's choosing.

Mr Harrison, one of the Clerks to the Clerks of the Cheque is to be dismissed for withholding a warrant appointing a cook to the SOLEBAY and demanding money for its release.

An Order to procure vessels to replace The MASTERLAND and YOUNG LADY defective Machine vessels now in the Downs, together with twelve fishing boats and longboats to replace those brought from Portsmouth also in the Downs, four ships of about one hundred tons to load wood and tar, two vessels of abou…

Due to uncertainties concerning the supply of Provisions to the Squadron in the Straits, the Commissioners for Victualling have proposed that general credit should be granted to Admiral Aylme for use in various ports in the western Mediterranean, including Livorno, Naples and Alicante.…

The CORONATION and PRINCE GEORGE Hired ships are bound for the Baltic are to have their Provisions made up to three months at the Nore. They are also to be provided with necessary stores.