NO. 2 LAST CRUISE OF H.M.S. LOO — PETERSON I3 



you shall reasonably suspect to have Wool ^^ on board, and upon discovering 

 any with that comodity in them, to send them into the nearest Port, and deliver 

 them into the care of the Collector of the Customs, in order to their being prose- 

 cuted according to Law. 



You are by all opportunities to transmit to our Secretary for our information, 

 an account of your proceedings, and of the condition of the ships under your 

 command as to the number of men, and all other particulars and in case of in- 

 ability by sickness or otherwise, to be careful to leave these our instructions 

 with the next Commanding Officer. Given 12th July, 1743. 



W. J.C. G. L. 



By 

 T.C. 

 Capt. Utting, Loo, Spithead. 



Captain Utting must have received oral instructions that he was 

 to carry Governor Clinton to New York several days before he re- 

 ceived the above orders. In fact the Governor had either visited the 

 ship or had otherwise instructed Captain Utting on the accommoda- 

 tions that he desired aboard the Loo. Five days before the detailed 

 orders on the cruise were written Utting had written Corbett "the 

 carpenter will have compleated every conveniency Mr. Clinton desires 

 by tomorrow night . . ." ^^ 



On July 14 Utting acknowledged receipt of the orders of July 12 

 and reported that his ship was "in all respects fitt for sea." *^ Four 

 days later the Admiralty instructed Utting, who was now at Spithead 

 ready to sail, to convoy the storeship Pegasus "laden with naval stores 

 for New York and South Carolina" to America, ordering that he 

 "convoy her safely to New York, where you are to cause her to be 

 unloaden as soon as possible, and then proceed with her to South 

 Carolina." *^ At the same time additional instructions on cruising 

 while in America were issued.^^ 



TO CRUIZE BETWEEN CAPE FLORIDA, AND THE NORTH WEST 

 PART OF THE GRAND BAHAMA WHEN THE SEASON OF THE 

 YEAR WILL NOT PERMIT HIS CRUIZING OFF CAROLINA. 



In addition to our instructions to you dated the 12th instant, you are hereby 

 required and directed, when the Season of the Year is not proper for your 

 cruizing on the Coasts of South Carolina, and that neither the said Colony, nor 



*" The export of English wool was absolutely prohibited at this time in an 

 effort to encourage the English woolen industry. The demand for English raw 

 wool in the lowlands was great, and consequently the smuggling of it to the con- 

 tinent was profitable. 



48 ADM I, vol. 2625, pt. 3, No. 419. 



*'' Ibid., No. 420. 



48 ADM 2, vol. 60, p. 96. 



4° Ibid., pp. 96-97. 



