Folios 274-275: Joshua Sydney Horton, Regulating Captain, the Rendezvous, Liverpool....

Folios 274-275: Joshua Sydney Horton, Regulating Captain, the Rendezvous, Liverpool. Encloses a series of affidavits with details of events at the rendevous at Coopers Row on Tuesday evening which he wishes to call to the Admiralty's attention. Also asks them to refer to their solicitor the question of wages for seamen from American vessels who either volunteer or are impressed into the Navy, as the Masters of these vessels then refuse to pay the men.

Folios 276-279: enclosed with folios 274-275. Bound copies of affidavits sworn by several individuals before John B Aspinall, Liverpool, 2 August 1809 describing the events at the Coopers Row rendezvous. Midshipman John Fairns describes several men including John Whitehead and Matthew Brown coming into the rendezvous and attempting to arrest him. He sent for Regulating Captain Joshua Sydney Horton and also sent Midshipman Sheridan for the police, but Whitehead then tried to order Constables John Hart and James Bradshaw to take him into custody. At that point Lieutenant Henry Freeman Young Pogson and Lieutenant James Rees arrived. 2 August 1809. Eleanor Woods, wife of John Woods and a servant at the rendezvous house, gives her version of the same events. 2 August 1809. Lieutenant Henry Freeman Young Pogson says Captain Horton ordered him to the rendezvous because there was a disturbance. He ordered the press gang to take the invaders into the Press Room, at which point one of them called out to a woman in a window opposite that she should get the Carpenter's Bell rung, as he had been seized by the press gang. Captain Horton arrived and ordered the offenders to the turned over to the police. 2 August 1809 Lieutenant Thomas Evans says he was in command of the rendezvous at Coopers Row. When he was called to the house he found a soldier, John Whitehead and Matthew Brown in the custody of police and the men of his press gang, and Captain Joshua Sydney Horton ordered him to assist the police. They encountered a man called Charles Robinson who demanded to see the impress warrant, but he explained that Whitehead and Brown were not impressed, but in the custody of the civil power. 2 August 1809 Constable John Hart describes he and Constable James Bradshaw being called to the rendezvous to find that John Whitehead had seized Midshipman John Fairns and attempted to hand him over to the constables. First, Lieutenant Henry Freeman Young Pogson and Lieutenant James Rees arrived, and then Regulating Captain Joshua Sydney Horton, who ordered him to take Whitehead and Matthew Brown into custody. He then describes how outside the rendezvous they met Charles Robinson and then were set upon by a mob so that Lieutenant James Rees ordered them to withdraw and Whitehead and Brown were able to escape.