Comments on the settling of the naval mutiny at the Cape and at home and discusses the problems of a lasting peace, the revolution in Holland and how the articles ordered for the Cape should be paid.
In letter-book marked 'Letters from England'. Encloses 1 letter signed.
Encloses a bond of obligation by which Ross agrees to repay such part of the debts of the late Dutch East India Company as was paid to him and sent to London should His Majesty decide that the debts are not prize booty.
document Signed by George Wilkinson, witnessed by John Pickering and J.W. Rutter and certified a true copy by George Williamson, Commissary of Ordnance Department.
Expresses his willingness, as the new Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's ships in the colony and seas adjacent, to co-operate with Macartney in any defence plans he may have.