Folios 185-186: Robert Mends, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Responds to queries...

Folios 185-186: Robert Mends, Regulating Captain, Liverpool. Responds to queries concerning various impressed persons and encloses documents. James Robinson aged 18 years and born in Lancashire. He was impressed by Lieutenant Evans. Robinson claimed to be a Mate of the Ellen of Liverpool, bound for Dundalk. Two substitutes would be a fair equivalent for his discharge. Charles Anderson aged 26 years and born in Dumfries was impressed by Lieutenant Baly as an Ordinary. Anderson stated he came to Liverpool in the Union from Jamaica. There are two unbelievable contradictory accounts. Owen Lewis aged 24years and from the Isle of Man was impressed by Lieutenant Evans as an AB. He stated he had been Master of the Mary of Douglas for 10 months under the direction of Captain Connelly the real Master. There are now more than 200 men on board HMS Princess since the Elizabeth Tender ran aground. The Captain asked for another vessel.

Folios 187-188: enclosure with folios 185-186. Noted dated 29 August, unsigned to the Admiralty. Captain Mends is to receive an able bodied Landsman for Anderson.

Folios 189-190: enclosure with folios 185-186. Letter dated 17th August 1808 by Charles Anderson, on board HMS Princess to the Admiralty. Anderson states that he has been a Gentleman's Servant . He supports his father and has engaged himself as a Steward on a ship bound for Africa with wages three times greater than as a servant. He was to be employed on the Union under Captain Tucker for Africa, but was accosted by the impress gang. He asks for the finding a substitute to be approved. Please reply to William Graham, Strand Street, Liverpool.

Folios 191-192: enclosure with folios 185-186. Letter dated 17 August 1808 by [James Phillips?] Liverpool. He states that James Robinson, Mate of the Ellen, commanded by James Higham and currently lying at Liverpool. Robinson was impressed and sent onto HMS Princess. Robinson is a young man and his friends are seeking a substitute.

Folios 193-194: enclosure with folios 185-186. Letter dated 17 August 1808 by William Anderson, Liverpool to the Admiralty. Asks for discharge of his son Charles Anderson because he and his wife are his dependants and are deeply distressed. He will seek to provide an able-bodied Landsman substitute.

Folio 195: enclosure with folios 185-186. Letter dated 17 August 1808 by Thomas Vaisey, 1 Leather Lane, Liverpool to the Admiralty. Encloses a petition.

Folios 196-197: enclosure with folios 185-186. Letter dated 18 August 1808 by Hugh Jones, to the Admiralty. Asks for the discharge of Owen Lewis by providing an able bodied substitute to be approved by the Regulating Captain. Lewis was impressed and now on aboard HMS Princess. He supports an old widowed mother and four helpless children.