Address:     M. Flinders Esq^r
                Commander of H M Ship
                                        Investigator
                                            Sheerneƒs

Annotation:     May 1. 1801

                                                            Soho Square
                                                                April May 1 01

Dear Sir

                I have receivd [sic] your enclosing in
Copy of your Letter to Mr Nepean but I have not
been at the admiralty since, I shall take Care to
modify your orders in such manner as far as I
am Able or will answer your wishes. I confeƒs
however that I feel too much apprehension of
the danger of [illegible] a Reef on the ocean side
where there is no Anchorage & where in a Calm the
Long waves of the ocean will heave you in upon it
to make any mention of such an undertaking.
                The India Company have orderd [sic]
£1200 to be paid to you for your Table & that of
your officers but they decline any interference