Folio 501: Andrew Broun, Regulating Captain, Greenock Rendezvous. Francis Hughes...

Folio 501: Andrew Broun, Regulating Captain, Greenock Rendezvous. Francis Hughes was taken up yesterday and is now on board the Rosa tender. He was taken up on 4 December 1808 as a deserted supposedly from the Frolic brig or the Jamaica frigate and was sent to Plymouth in the Elizabeth tender on 12 January 1809. Having now no discharge and the Surgeon having declared him serviceable he believes he has deserted again though he claims to have been discharged from HMS Salvador del Mundo as unserviceable. He will sail to Plymouth towards the end of the month unless he receives directions to the contrary.

Folios 502-503: enclosure with folio 501. Letter dated 25 October 1810 from John Colquhoun, Surgeon and Agent for the Sick and Wounded Seamen, Greenock. Francis Hughes who was taken up as a deserter and put on board the Elizabeth tender 4 December 1808 and sent to Plymouth 21 January 1809. He would not say which ship he was a deserter from. He was on board HMS Salvador del Mundo for 7 weeks and says he was discharged as unserviceable but has no discharge paper and no apparent debility and has been declared serviceable by Dr Colquhoun to Captain Broun in the presence of Lieutenants Hibbs and Moulson.