Includes: a letter to Viscount Melville from John Barrow, relating details of an enemy attack on Sir John Orde’s squadron a few miles off Cadiz; a letter to Viscount Melville from John Barrow, relaying intelligence provided by the sloop BEAGLE, of the movements of French and Spanish vessels around Cadiz and Ferrol; and a letter to Viscount Melville from Mr Budge with a memorandum enclosed arguing that no ship of the line should enter the Port of Cadiz until intelligence on the movements of hostile forces at Cadiz and Ferrol is received.