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place for Six & sometimes eight principal people besides servants to carry on their respective employments -
On falling down the River the Ship was found Absolutely incapable of the Voyage Your Lordship if I am not misinformd receivd an account of her being so from the first Lieutenant & Pilot & which latter I am told went so far as to declare that he would not venture to Carry her even round to Deal without a fair wind
the navy Board have attributed this imperfection of the Ship to her Extraordinary accommodations & have orderd at once above half of them to be destroyd & whether that or will make her absolutely safe is a matter in which I find many able seamen concurr with me in doubting.
But supposing she should be no longer dangerously top heavy I will take the liberty of informing your Lordship in what other particulars