Annotation:
        No 20
Jan 15 1806 from Sir Edw^d
Pellew, in answer to mine
of Aug^t 13 1805

Rec^d May 6 1806

H M Ship Culloden
    15 January 1806

Sir,
      My letter to you of the
18^th June last, has just been ret^d
to my hands, no opportunity having
offered of placing it in your hands
by the occasion I expected. —
      I now forward it a second
time with my acknowledgements
for your's [sic] of the 13^th August,
containing a Narrative of those
Circumstances, which by previous
information had much interested
me in your present distreƒsful
Situation. I trust however that
although from the Circumstances
already stated in my former
letter, I am withheld from an
active Interference for your
            release
To
Captain Flinders
late Commander of H M Ship
      Investigator