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His Majesty

To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Request for bomb vessels to be used along the American coast.

To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. On selection of commanding officers for his ships.

Patuxent River. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Concerns the black troops he raised especially from escaped or captured slaves, how they drill and fight, and asking for the promotion of an old army sergeant who has been unusually…

Surprize Patuxent. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd, viscount Melville. Deals with the prize money due his men for the reduction of the Danish Islands in 1807.

His Majesty

Admiralty. Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane. Deals with naval operations and the formations of a corps from the slaves.

To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Forwarding copy of a letter received from America on the political effects of lifting the embargo by the admiralty as a means of carrying on the war.

To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melvillle. Needs more ships to maintain an effective blockade to checkmate America

Observations by Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane to Lord Melville relative to America. Plans to burn Washington, blockade Atlantic coast, capture New Orleans, separate North from the South.

Memorandums for Lord Melville. Memos relative to the fleet, munitions, black troops, and officers.

Plymouth Dock. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Impossible