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Decr 10
1795
My Lord
Having heard this day that a Vacancy has happend in Greenwich Hospital by the death of Capt. Hunt I cannot omit to sollicit your Lordships assistance in favor of Capt. Bligh.
Greenwich was the Asylum to which Lord Sandwich sent Capt. Cooke & Capt. Gore, Bligh's services who accompanied both these Commanders bear a strong resemblance to theirs.
The service he since did by saving the part of the Crew of the Bounty that did not Mutiny was meretorious in the extreme the reward he met with an attack upon his Character unfounded & illiberal which I trust he compleatly answerd by the exhibition of documents only, -- without the necessity of urging a single argument.
The service he did to the West Indies by bringing the Bread Fruit Plant to St. Vincents & Jamaica on his second attempt will not soon be forgot by those who inhabit there, they will be gratefull if your Lordship extends your patronage to Capt. Bligh.
His health has by the Voyage from the Bounty to Timor been utterly ruind [ruined], his head achs [aches] in the hot climates nearly killd [killed] him in his second Bread Fruit Voyage, & he now suffers as much from Rheumatisms in the North Sea.
Active & indefatigable in the service