Folios 172-173: Edward James Foote, HMS Sea-horse [Seahorse], (in quarantine), Motherbank....

Folios 172-173: Edward James Foote, HMS Sea-horse [Seahorse], (in quarantine), Motherbank. Reports that in September 1798 Ordinary Seaman George Smith was sentenced by a Court Martial at Alexandria to three hundred lashes and the loss of his pay. When the Seahorse arrived in Spithead in October 1799 he reported to the Admiralty that the lashes had not been administered, and he was ordered to send Smith aboard HMS Royal William. He was given permission to bear Smith on the books as a Supernumerary for wages only, and Rear Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton told him Smith had been sent to the Mediterranean to receive the rest of his punishment. On 4 August 1800 while at Port Mahon, Smith was sent back to the Seahorse from HMS Audacious, even though he told Captain Davidge Gould that putting Smith back with the crew which had seen his previous mutinous conduct, without his punishment having been completed, would be bad for discipline. Captain Gould declined to give him an order to discharge the man into any other ship until Lord Keith's pleasure was known. Smith is currently confined in a leg iron when in port, and is considered a prisoner at large when at sea. Asks for permission to remove him from the ship.