Folios 177-178: Charles FitzGerald, HMS Artois, Weymouth Road. Reports that having...

Folios 177-178: Charles FitzGerald, HMS Artois, Weymouth Road. Reports that having been ordered to cruise off Cape Clear [Ireland], together with HMS Raisonable and HMS Trusty he chased two French frigates [on 13 July 1794]. Unsuccessful, HMS Artois later boarded a Swedish Indiaman, whilst HMS Trusty boarded a ship from St Vincent. Is enclosing information received from HMS Trusty.

Folio 179-180: enclosure with folios 177-178. Letter [undated, 1794] by David Young, Commander, the Mary, delivered to Captain [William O'Bryen] Drury, HMS Trusty, at sea, 24 July 1794, and on to Captain Charles Fitzgerald, HMS Artois. The Mary, with a letter of marque, sailed from St Vincent on 31 May [1794] and on 4 June observed long firing of minute guns from a man-of-war off Basse Terre, Guadaloupe, which was for the burial of General Thomas Dundas. The same day a schooner was dispatched to search for Sir John Jervis, to inform him that a French line of battle had arrived at Grand Terre in Guadaloupe.

Folio 181: enclosure with folios 177-178. Document dated 3 July 1794 by [?] passes on intelligence, [? gathered by David Young?] mentioning the Bombay Castle, Captain Montgomery, a ship sailing from St Helena to Ostende, another, from Cork on 12 July [1794], a French man-of-war.

Folio 182-183: enclosure with folios 177-178. Intelligence report. Details the movements of the Sophia Magdalena, Swedish Indiaman, under Captain H. Clason which sailed from China 24 January [1794]. Other ships listed, with their captains named: the Lion, thirty English Indiamen, the Sophia, two Dutch Indiamen (Dreckterland and Leyden), nine British whalers, a Portuguese frigate (Prinazado Brazil), the English South Sea man (Kitty), a Tuscan ship (La Reconnoscenza), an American (The Therezia of Philadelphia), and the Knight, privateer of Liverpool. All sailing before 12 July 1794. Masts and boats were seen floating - latitude and longitude recorded - 9 and 10 July 1794.