Folios 171-172: Sydney Horton, Regulating Officer, Liverpool. Thomas Colley was impressed...

Folios 171-172: Sydney Horton, Regulating Officer, Liverpool. Thomas Colley was impressed by Lieutenant Baly, Irish from Manchester. Donald Livingston from Argyllshire was in a House of Ill Repute on Bridge Street at 11.00 pm when he was chased out of the back and easily recaptured. Lieutenant Evans never lost sight of him. He says he is the Mate of the Jane. Robert Jones was impressed by Lieutenant Clarke. Thomas Lunt was impressed by Lieutenant Baly as he had sailed before as a Carpenter. Has received expenses incurred by John Jones and Henry Wriggly. John Jones having been sent back from Plymouth but Wriggly's Master refuses to claim his apprentice.

Folios 173-174: enclosure with folios 171-172. Letter dated 9 December 1808 by Thomas Scully, HMS Princess. He has a helpless family and is on HMS Princess but has never been at sea so asks to be discharged.

Folios 175-176: enclosure with folios 171-172.Petition dated 10 December 1808 by Peter Sinclair, Master of the Big Jane. On arrival from Antigua the pressgang took his Mate, Donald Livingston. John Fitzpatrick pleaded for him and he was liberated. Five days later, he was ashore having supper as no fire is allowed aboard any ship in dock, but he was called aboard near the Salt House dock to adjust the cargo at 10 o'clock at night where upon he was pressganged. The cargo cannot be adjusted without him and no one can get wages without his accounts. The pressgang said he was inside a house of prostitutes which is untrue and he was arrested outside and his shipmates will swear to his innocence.

Folios 177-178: enclosure with folios 171-172. Letter dated 7 December 1808 by Daniel Jones, Liverpool. Robert Jones aged 17 of Flintshire was never at sea and is not in his right senses after a fall in lead works. His father has six children and he works in the lead works to help support them.

Folios 179-180: enclosure with folios 171-172. Letter dated 10 December 1808 by Thomas Rycroft, Liverpool. Thomas Lund, Joiner, has never been at sea and is deaf and has been very badly treated on HMS Princess. He has a wife and family and should be released.

Folios 181-182: enclosure with folios 171-172. Letter dated 5 December 1808 by James Baxton, HMS Princess, Liverpool. He was on a tender going to Plymouth when he was arrested. He is a poor old man of 53 with bad rheumatics and a broken arm so he cannot move with a wife and five starving children. He has only been on tenders twice between Greenoch and Glasgow and is no sailor.