lO SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Another order dated the same day directed Utting to have his ship 

 "vichialled to four months only ^'•* for a f orreign voyage, and what beer 

 she cannot take in to be made up with good brandy . . . and to cause 

 half of one and half of the other to be issued." It also instructed 

 Utting to load the food as quickly as possible and "to take care, that 

 the brandy supplied ... be good and wholesome," and to report to 

 the Lords of the Admiralty "the usefullness of the allowance of half 

 brandy and half beer and what effect it has upon the health of the 

 men." *" Utting silently conformed with these orders as they were 

 received, but on July 2, still hoping to receive the battery of 9-pounders 

 to replace his wornout 6's, he wrote : "The time for taken in my 

 guns draws very near, and ye officers of ye ordinance here has no 

 orders concerning ye 9 pounders, which I had wrote for and was in 

 hopes I should have had them as ye ship would well bare them and 

 make her a much better man of war." ^^ He also requested that, if 

 possible, he be told his ultimate destination since he knew only that 

 he was to go to North America. 



On July II orders were issued to the commanding officers of the 

 Rye, 20 guns ; Flamborough, 20 guns, and the sloop Spy, 8 carriage 

 gims and 12 swivels, all stationed in South Carolina, to place them- 

 selves under the command of Captain Utting upon his arrival there. 

 Utting was to carry these orders with him.'*- The next day the Ad- 

 miralty issued instructions to Utting concerning the impressment of 

 seamen while in America, furnishing him with three press warrants. 

 The instructions cautioned him that "it is not meant, that the trade of 

 His Maj's. subjects in America, or ships provided with Letters of 

 Marque to cruise against the Enemy should be distressed thereby, 

 but only that such prudent use be made of the said press warrants as 

 may enable you to procure men to make up your complement, when 

 proper opportunities offer it. You are to take great care, that no 

 indiscreet or unreasonable use be made of them." The instructions 

 also directed that Utting was "never to molest the chief officers, such 

 as the master, mate, boatswain or carpenter, or any seaman found on 

 board with protections granted by us, pursuant to Act of Parlia- 

 ment." " 



s» Thus rescinding the order of June 14, wliich had directed the loading of a 

 6-months' supply of food. 



*o Admiralty Out-Letters, ADM 2, vol. 60, p. 42. Beer had been a standard 

 beverage in the English Navy since earliest times. Easy to keep, it was superior 

 to water, which grew putrid in the casks. 



<i ADM I, vol. 2625, pt. 3, No. 418. 



^~ ADM 2, vol. 60, p. 79. 



43 Ibid., p. 80. 



