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Gaudeloupe, West Indies. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 1nd viscount Melville. On South American and West Indian timber for shipbuilding.

To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Lists items needed to carry out actions against the Americans.

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

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.

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

To Sir Richard Hussey Bickerton. Describes the capture of Washington.

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…

Proclamation inviting United States citizens to join the British service or be received as free settlers into British Colonies.

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

His Majesty