OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS. 



By the Commissioners for Executing 

 the Office of Lord High Admiral 

 of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britai?i and Ireland^ &c. 



YOU are hereby required and directed to put to sea, 

 on the 10th instant, with the sloop you command, in 

 company with the Snap, surveying vessel, whose Com- 

 mander has been placed by us under your orders ; and 

 to proceed with all convenient expedition towards Hud- 

 son's Straits, until you reach the ice, or arrive off Cape 

 Chidley, when you are to receive into the Griper, from 

 the Snap, the articles that vessel is to carry out for you ; 

 and you are then to order the Lieutenant of the Snap to 

 part company, and proceed to Newfoundland, according 

 to his former orders, and no longer to consider himself 

 imder your command. And you will send by the Snap 



