| Description | Includes references to an extract from a contingency account which had been referred back from the Admiralty to the Navy and had not been allowed, which would not have happened had Admiral Medley still been alive; production of vouchers as proof; how it would have helped if Mr Grimston had been in the House of Commons; Captain Cooper's demand; Groves' meeting with Mr Petticrew who was Vice Consul in Barbery while Mr Medley commanded in the Mediterranean; directions given by the Admiral to Mr Lewis of Gibraltar to lend money to Mr Petticrew for the supply of the slaves in Barbery and accounts from him for sundry things he had sent the Admiral from Barbery; accounts possibly taken by Thompson for sheep and fowls; Mr Hailes' absence from town; Mr Groves is lame in the left foot and leg from gout or rheumatism and a letter to Groves from Mr Lewis, who says that he will settle his dependancies in three months. Also a copy of a letter from the Lords of the Admiralty Anson, Duncannon and Trentham to the Comissioners of the Navy concerning contingent charges of His Majesty's Fleet under the Admiral's command in the Mediterranean between 27 Jul 1745 and 5 Aug 1747, which have not been allowed, money paid to Mr Grove for his service as interpreter of the French and Spanish languages between the same dates only to be allowed in part, payment to Mr Groves as Deputy Treasurer not to be allowed and payments for items without vouchers not to be allowed; an abstract of deductions made from the contingent accounts by order of the Lords of the Admiralty including an error overpaid to Leeming for working on board ships and eight other items being for secret intelligence including amounts to Juan de la Rosa for trips to Cadiz, to Geronimo Valentino for a voyage to Carthegena, to J B Maglione for voyages to Toulon and Carthagene, to Giacomo Rivera for the like service, to Francois Dreprotie for journeys to Toulon and Marseilles and to Patron Anto[o] [Nucella] |