Folios 168-169: James Alexander Gordon, HMS Seahorse, Spithead. Encloses 2 letters...

Folios 168-169: James Alexander Gordon, HMS Seahorse, Spithead. Encloses 2 letters received from Charles Stirling, Vice Admiral, one of which is from William Bullock, addressed to Charles Stirling, Vice Admiral, regarding a French prisoner of war, named Vanhille, who is now on board HMS Seahorse. Requests directions of how to dispose of him.

Folios 170-171: enclosure with folios 168-169: letter, dated 12th March 1813, from [William] Bullock, [Secretary to Lieutenant Governor], Kings House. [Jamaica] to Charles Stirling, Vice Admiral. Advises that he is commanded by the Lieutenant Governor to ask James Alexander Gordon to inform Vice Admiral Charles Stirling that the French Prisoner of War, who has been brought from Montego Bay in HMS Seahorse, to be sent to England at the earliest opportunity. Advises that the person was a Purser in the French Navy, confined in Dartmoor prison for a breach of his parole but had escaped and under an assumed name procured a passage to the island [Jamaica] in the ship the Jane from Bristol. States that several papers were found on this man, named Vanhille, copies of which have already been sent to Earl Henry Bathurst which may lead to a discovery of the mode in which Prisoners of War are assisted to escape. A correction in the margin by James Alexander Gordon states that the prisoner was brought to Port Royal in HMS Herald not HMS Seahorse.

Folios 172-173: enclosure with folios 168-169: letter dated 16 March 1813, from Charles Stirling, Vice Admiral to James Alexander Gordon, HMS Seahorse. Encloses a letter [item not enclosed] sent to his secretary by Edward Morrison, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica regarding Vanhille, French Prisoner of War, said to have broken his parole, and that he is to request that Vanhille is taken on board HMS Seahorse for a passage to England.