Folios 272-273: Joshua Sydney Horton, Regulating Officer, Liverpool. Responds to...

Folios 272-273: Joshua Sydney Horton, Regulating Officer, Liverpool. Responds to the letter of 20 February. The name of Joseph Brown does not appear in the books at the Rendezvous, but a man calling himself John Brown, born in Fifeshire, was pressed by Lieutenant Evans on 15 February as an Able Seaman. The information was that he arrived in the John Bull. Although the application was dated from HMS Princess, Captain Horton believes it was made on shore at the request of a crimp who has made a mistake over the Christian name. John Davison, born at Dyse End, was pressed by Lieutenant Baly on 18 December [1808]. An indenture was produced to claim him, on unstamped paper with false stamps attached. He was taken on shore, and it seems the vessel to which he belonged had sailed without him. John Miles, now in Liverpool, was pressed by Lieutenant Rees on 13 February and thereafter entered as an Ordinary volunteer. He arrived in the Tiger, from the West Indies. Also enclosed is an affidavit produced by a black man calling himself John Crofts, who was pressed by Lieutenant Rees as an Ordinary Seaman. He could not give a satisfactory account of himself, acknowledged that he had lived several years in Jamaica, and that he had no Protection other than the enclosed paper, for which he had paid the sum of 2 guineas to the Notary Public in London. He is no doubt a native of Jamaica.

Folios 274-275: enclosure with folios 272-273. Letter dated 17 February 1809 by Joseph Brown, on board HMS Princess, Liverpool, to The Admiralty. Request to be discharged without providing substitutes. He has a widowed mother, and 3 sisters, one of whom is widowed, and there are also children, all of whom are dependent on him.

Folios 276-277: enclosure with folios 272-273. Letter dated 14 February 1809 by James Davieson, Hacklaw Muir, near Dysarth to The Admiralty. Request for the discharge of his son John, pressed from on board the Jean, Captain Peter Smith, at Liverpool. he will obtain 2 substitutes.

Folios 278-279: enclosure with folios 272-273.Petition dated 17 February 1809 by Elizabeth Miles, 45 Norfolk Street, Liverpool, to The Admiralty. Request for the discharge of her son.

Folios 280-281: enclosure with folios 272-273. Protection dated 15 December 1808 issued by John Jarvis, Public Notary, 32 Great Tower Hill, London, to John Crofts, born in New York, and a citizen of the United States of America.