any Port in England, to give notice
of her arrival to His Majesty's
Botanic Gardener at Kew, and to
transmit to him a List and State
of the said Plants &c, which the
Gardener employed under your
Orders, is to furnish you with for
that purpose.

      Given under our Hands
the 22^d of June 1801
            [signatures of St Vincent (First Lord of the Admiralty),
            and T Troubridge (Admiralty Commissioner) have been cut away]
To

Matthew Flinders Esq^r
Commander of His Majesty's       [signed] J Markham
Sloop Investigator

      at Spithead

By Command of their Lordships

      [signature of Evan Nepean (Secretary to the Admiralty) has been cut away]