Folios 122-123: William Cayley, HMS Invincible, the Downs. Reports his arrival with...

Folios 122-123: William Cayley, HMS Invincible, the Downs. Reports his arrival with a convoy from the Leeward Islands, encloses [no longer present] a convoy list and a journal of proceeding since he left Fort Royal, Martinique. On the passage he spoke to the frigate Boston, from America on passage to Martinique, and later with the frigate HMS Revolutionnaire. On 16 August 1800, off Cape Clear he sent HMS Scourge to escort those ships bound for the Bristol Channel or St George's Channel, and as his orders from Lord Seymour did not specify what she was to do after that, he ordered her to Spithead to await further orders. The brig Neptune, James Stewart, Master, bound for Liverpool, had very few sails she could set in light winds, and so he ordered Commander Samuel Warren to send an officer aboard to take an inventory of her sails. Encloses his report. As he did not consider she was properly found for a crossing of the Atlantic, he did not detain the convoy for her. On 23 July he asked the cutter Jenny William, Alexander Steel, Master, bound for Liverpool, to investigate a strange sail. She spoke this ship but then refused to return to the convoy.

Folios 124-125: enclosed with folios 122-123. Letter dated 7 July 1800 from Lieutenant Young and John Airey Master of HMS Scource, aboard the Poland brig Neptune, to Commander Samuel Warren. They have been aboard and examined the sails. Give a brief inventory, many of the sails are in poor condition, they do not think she will be able to sail well enough to keep up with the convoy. She is on passage from Surinam to Liverpool.