We having appointed the GUARDLAND to carry Governor Sloughter to New York, we direct you to cause her to be sheathed and refitted at Deptford for that service, and supplied with six months victuals proper for such a voyage.
The greatest dispatch must be made in paying and dispatching to sea the Ships designed for the Straits and West indies. We direct you to order one of your Board to assist the Portsmouth Commissioner in this, and also hasten the Victualling Commissioners in completing the victualling of the said two Squadrons, and dispatching to Spithead the Victualling Ships going with the Mediterranean Squadron.
We further direct you to cause the House in the Chatham Yard which formerly belonged to the Clerk of the Survey there, and which has been used for some years by one of the Master Attendants, to be restored to the Clerk of the Survey of that Yard, and the Master Attendant losing the use of the House is to have the usual allowance of House Rent.
Archdeacon John Browne has petitioned for an allowance of Wages for the time he acted as Judge Advocate in the Irish Seas by Order of Captain George Rooke, and we direct you make the usual allowances to him as is usual in like cases.