| Description | Includes references to Groves' illness of a 'remitting feaver' which he has treated with 'the usual evacuations of bleeding,sweating and vomiting', which has prevented him from calling on Mr Thompson to examine Mr Greene's account; Groves' meeting with Hardwick, who will wait on Mr Mountegu, Lord Sandwich's secretary; Lord Sandwich's obligation to the late Admiral; Mr Rowley was censured for accepting the office of Vice Admiral of Great Britain under Lord Anson a junior in the service; Lord Vere, senior to Mr Anson, gave up his position for the same reason; it is not determined who will succeed Lord Vere at the Admiralty; Groves goes slowly in the Navy office and plans to go to Tunbridge for a week |