Letters and Orders', being copy of 'Statement of Charges against Joseph Short Esqr Commander of His Majestys Ship Porpoise, and Papers relative thereto by William Bligh Esq captain of the said Ship', 1 April 1806 (Series 40.018) - No. 0023

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again applied for my opinion, as he terms it, by letter (a), the "Alexander and Elizabeth being about to leave us for Rio Janeiro, requesting to know whether it could not be better to proceed with those Ships; to which I answered by Letter (b) that we must proceed to the Cape of Good Hope according to the orders of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Given under my hand on board the Lady Sinclair at Sea this 1st of April 1806.

Wm Bligh