Commissioner Richard Hughes, Portsmouth. Receipt of letters and warrants to expect...

Commissioner Richard Hughes, Portsmouth. Receipt of letters and warrants to expect money to carry on the payments here and at Plymouth and the muster books of the Cerberus, Minerva and Prudent have been sent here to prove the desertion of James Garret and William Coultis, which are to be tried at a Court Martial, to defer the alterations proposed for the St. John schooner, until her next refitting, to make the Master Bricklayer the same allowance for superintending the paving at the Marine barracks as is usually made to the Master House Carpenter, to enter the Purser of the Colchester from the day after his discharge from the Hunter sloop, to allow leave to the Pursers of the Sandwich, Chatham and Colchester and to inform if the carriage of goods by Messrs. Clark was performed agreeable to the bill sent. Is sending the daily progress and the Clerk of the Cheque's return of musters with an account of the proceedings on the ship. Today, the Seaford sailed from Spithead