Folios 288-289: Joshua Sydney Horton, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Reports on the...

Folios 288-289: Joshua Sydney Horton, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Reports on the impressment of six men. Robert Angel, born at Bridport, was impressed by Lieutenant Thomas Evans on 24 July. He said he was the Mate of the Maida, but was found ashore at night. Henry Hutchinson from Cumberland was impressed by Lieutenant Hyde John Clarke on 2 August. An indenture for William Hutchinson was produced in an effort to secure his discharge, but he insists his first name is Henry. Archibald Dick, a native of Boness [Borrowstounness ?], was impressed by Lieutenant James Rees on 3 August claiming to be the Mate of the Helen but found ashore at night. William Peet was impressed on 31 July and then entered as a volunteer. He is a native of Dundee, claimed to be Mate of the Triton, but again was found ashore at night. Barney McGennis [Barnard McGuinis], a native of Ireland, was impressed as he came ashore from a vessel just arrived from the West Indies. James Greenough, born at Wigan, was not impressed, but volunteered with Lieutenant Samuel Baly on 19 June as a substitute for Anthony Browne.

Folios 290-291: enclosed with folios 288-289. Letter dated 4 August 1809 from James Greenough, HMS Princess, Liverpool to the Admiralty. Seeks his discharge if he can produce a substitute.

Folios 292-293: enclosed with folios 288-289. Letter dated 5 August 1809 from Hannah Russell, 5 Nova Scotia, Liverpool to the Admiralty. Offers to produce two substitutes to secure the release of Robert Angel of the brig Maida, who has been impressed and is aboard HMS Princess.

Folios 294: enclosed with folios 288-289. Letter from Isaac Oldham Bold, Liverpool to the Admiralty, 5 August 1809. Includes an affidavit from himself and William Henry seeking the discharge of William Henry Hutchinson, impressed by Captain Houghton [Regulating Captain Joshua Sydney Horton]. Hutchinson was placed in his care by his father and he was trying to secure an Admiralty protection for him.

Folio 295: enclosed with folios 288-289. Affidavit sworn by William Henry and Isaac Oldham Bole before Justice of the Peace Thomas Molyneux, Liverpool, 5 August 1809. Swear that William Henry Hutchinson, the son of William Hutchinson of Alstom Moore, Cumberland, was apprenticed to them earlier that month. He has been impressed because he signed his name Henry Hutchinson and not William Hutchinson as the indenture says.

Folios 296-297: enclosed with folios 288-289. Affidavit sworn by William Hutchinson, son of William Hutchinson of Alstom Moore, Cumberland, before Justice of the Peace Thomas Molyneux, Liverpool, 27 August 1809. Swears that he was bound as apprentice to Isaac Oldham Pole and William Henry in order to learn the sea, but that he had never been to sea before.

Folios 298-299: enclosed with folios 288-289. Letter dated 5 August 1809 from Thomas Hayton, Liverpool to the Admiralty. Reports that Archibald Dick, Mate of the Helen which had just arrived from Demerara, was impressed and sent aboard HMS Princess last Thursday. When he applied for his discharge, an officer of the Impress service said this could not be done except by application to the Admiralty.

Folios 300-301: enclosed with folios 288-289. Petition dated 4 August 1809 by Mary Peet, 7 Mill Place, Shaws Brow, Liverpool, to the Admiralty. Asks for the discharge of her husband William Peet, Mate of the Triton trading between Dundee and Liverpool, who was found ashore at night and then persuaded to volunteer for the Navy. Offers to provide a substitute.

Folios 302-303: enclosed with folios 288-289. Letter dated 4 August 1809 from Joseph Daltere, Liverpool, to the Admiralty. Encloses an affidavit seeking the discharge of Barnard McGuinis.

Folio 304: attached to folios 302-303. Affidavit sworn by Daniel King and Patrick Heagan before Thomas Golightly, Liverpool, 26 July 1809. They have known Barnard McGinnis from childhood and swear he never was at sea except to come to Liverpool from Ireland. He was born in Drumgooland, Co Down, and later went to Belfast.