Folios 214-215: Edward James Foote, HMS Sea Horse [HMS Seahorse], Spithead. Report...

Folios 214-215: Edward James Foote, HMS Sea Horse [HMS Seahorse], Spithead. Report s that I have just anchored HMS Seahorse at Spithead as directed by Vice Admiral [Peter] Rainer on 29 May 1802, I enclose a copy of the Vice Admirals Order , and also of one which directed me to speak all suspicious vessels until I had passed the Mauritius, that I might seize, and accompany the French Privateer Ls Subtile I saw between Madras and Cape Lagullas [Cape Agulhas]. (The day after HMS Seahorse was taken out of Dock at Sheerness in December 1799, she was found to make one and half [inch] of water an hour, which (thru Vice Admiral Graeme} was represented to the Admiralty. On 21 June 1802 this leak suddenly increased to at least fourteen inches per hour, and whilst at anchor at St Helena we more correctly ascertained that the ship made near two feet per hour, which she has continued to do ever since at anchor or in all weathers, I am convinced it is the place where, about forty feet of Keel was badly united to the main piece in Sheerness Dock in December 1799). I shall deliver Vice Admiral [Peter] Rainer's dispatches, into the Admirals office at this Port.

Folios 216-218: enclosure with folios 214-215. Vice Admiral Peter Rainer, HMS Victorious, Madras Roads. To Edward James Foote, HMS Sea Horse. Dated 29 May 1802. Orders to take dispatches to England. Also receive on board Commissioned & Warrant Officers of the late HMS Sensible for a passage to England, bearing them as supernumeraries for Victuals.

Folios 218-219A: enclosure with folios 214-215. Vice Admiral Peter Rainer, HMS Victorious, Madras Roads. To Edward James Foote, HMS Sea Horse. Dated 30 May 1802. Orders. Whereas His Excellency the Marquis Wellesley Governor General has in a Dispatch of the 13 January 1802 received last night, informed one of the capture of the ship Active, [Mr] Greenaway Master, belonging to the Port of Calcutta on 21 March 1802, by a French Subject of the name of Pinaud, Commanding a Privateer named Le Subtile, the Active being then on her voyage from Prince of Wales Island to Calcutta with a valuable Cargo, having sailed on the 18 March 1802, the said Pinaud having been then duly informed of the exchange of the Preliminary Articles of Peace between His majesty and the French Republic; both by the Master of the Active and others, whereby the Capture became utterly illegal, if not an Act of downright Piracy. You are required & directed on falling in with the said French Privateer between the Coast and the Mauritius (endeavouring to speak with every suspicious vessel) since the Privateer and her Commander, and carry him to Mauritius and deliver him to the Governor.

Folio 219B-219C: enclosure with folios 214-215. Carpenter's Defects of HMS Seahorse. October 1802. Signed Edward James Foote and John[?] Paris - Carpenter.