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ready to obey your Orders; but conceiving as I do I cannot obey them until you are mustered, for if I was, I think myself subject to a Court Martial for acting unbecoming an Officer, the Woolwich is coming in can Beaufort obey your Orders untill [until] he finds you are mustered on board one of His Majesty's Ships? If he does, I have no objection to say he acts unlike an Officer and that I will report his Conduct to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
I have just received a Letter from the Master Builder who was on board yesterday to Survey the defects of this Ship, he says you have directed him to go on with the Rolla untill [until] you have received from me the State of the Porpoise - you know my reasons for not giving them to you, it is in your power to Command them and every thing for His Majesty's Service by giving me an Order to return you from leave, when you will find no Officer, more ready to obey your Orders than myself; the situation I am placed in never I am certain happened since the Navy existed and be certain far