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that Your Lordships should order Lieut. Hergest her Commander the moment she is ready for Sea to proceed with her to the Sandwich Islands, [Hawaii] and in meeting with Captain Vancouver to deliver to him the letters above mentioned relative to the restitutions, and to put himself under his direction for the execution of this Service, in order that Cap. Vancouver may be impeded as little as possible in the progress of his intended Survey - But, as the Season is now so far advanced it appears extremely probable that Captain Vancouver will have left the Sandwich Islands before the arrival of the Daedalus, and if it should so happen Lieut Hergest should be diverted to make the best of his way to Nootka, where he may expect to be met by a Spanish Officer