Folios 31-32: Joshua Sydney Horton, Regulating Officer, Liverpool. Replying to the...

Folios 31-32: Joshua Sydney Horton, Regulating Officer, Liverpool. Replying to the letter of 3 January. The books of the Rendezvous show that Patrick O'Neil was arrested by Lieutenant Evans on August 19 [1808]. Gives a description of the man, born in Ireland. He was taken as a result of his conduct in resisting the Lieutenant and gang who were executing their duty. Richard Banks entered with Lieutenant Rees on 5 December as a Landsman volunteer. He is a native of Lancashire. It is understood that his friends can provide a substitute. Captain Horton does not believe that he has a wife and three children, as he claimed to be single when he entered and the application is made by an Attorney in Liverpool. Samuel Stubbs entered with Lieutenant Clarke in 4 November [1808] as a Boy volunteer. He was born in Manchester and declared he was not an apprentice. He returns the enclosures.

Folios 33-34: enclosure with folios 31-32. Letter dated 30 December [1808] by Patrick O'Neil, on board HMS Resolue, Plymouth, to The Admiralty. He has received a letter from his wife in Liverpool with the enclosed affidavit asking him to send it to The Admiralty as she and her 4 children are distressed for want of food. He and his wife have lived as servants with R J Carew of Castelboro in the County of Wexford for 10 years. They also have a Malt and Spirit licence in the town of New Ross, which they operated for 8 years until the business failed. He left Ireland and took labouring jobs for 2 years. He is in poor health and getting on in years, and requests a discharge.

Folio 35: enclosure with folios 31-32. Statement dated 15 December 1808 by John Colebyrn, Richard Mullawney, Wiliam Fannan, Liverpool, sworn before Thomas Golightly, Justice of the Peace, Liverpool. Sworn statement of the circumstances of Patrick O'Neil's taking by the press gang. They are all inhabitants of Liverpool.

Folios 36-37: enclosure with folios 31-32. Letter dated 31 December 1808 by P H Thompson, Slaters Court, Liverpool. States that Richard Banks, currently on board HMS Princess, has a wife and 3 children left destitute. One Landsman substitute has been found, James Lenard, and has been on board HMS Princess since 26 [December], but his wife is too poor to find another. Asks for Richard Banks to be discharged. He has never been to sea, and this was likely a drunken frolic.

Folios 38-39: enclosure with folios 31-32. Memorial made 29 December 1808 by William Woolley, Fustian Cutter, Manchester, sworn before M A Wharington, Justice of the Peace, New Bayley Court, Salford, Lancashire. Statement confirming that Samuel Stubbs of Manchester is apprenticed for 7 years as a Fustian Cutter to William Woolley. Requests his discharge.