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Bermuda. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Concerns naval captures, officers promoted, fortification of Tangier Island under Admiral Cockburn who is arming a black force, and effects of lifting embargo.

Admiralty. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Concerns a call to be made by Colonel McMahon.

Admiralty. To Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane. Concerns embargo and naval operations.

Bermuda. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Concerns political effects of blockade and the use of agents to obtain information.

His Majesty

To Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane. Deals with the new Orleans campaign. General Ross to command 7,000 men to be sent from England, rendezvous at west end of Jamaica.

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

His Majesty

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.

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…

Tonnant Off Baltimore. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Cochrane

Tonnant, Chesapeake Bay. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd, viscount Melville. Refers to letter of July 29 which just arrived, the instructions