HOWE, Sir RICHARD, Admiral, British Commander-in-Chief on American Station. Autograph letter signed ("Howe") to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence (later William IV), on board "the Charlotte at Spithead," 29 October 1790. One page, 4to, integral blank with recipient's docket, dusty at top edge. "I have the honor to transmit for your Royal Highness information, the appointed Rendezvous, Order of Battle, and different Orders of Sailing, with the Alterations (confined chiefly to the Substitutions of the Flag White with a Blue Cross Page 11 Art 13, for the Flag White with a Red Border in pages 5 & 9) which were judged expedient to be made in the Signal & Instruction Books, since the return of the Channel Fleet into Port. A Signal Book so corrected, with the Flag...substituted...will be presented to your Royal Highness herewith...."

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HOWE, Sir RICHARD, Admiral, British Commander-in-Chief on American Station. Autograph letter signed ("Howe") to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence (later William IV), on board "the Charlotte at Spithead," 29 October 1790. One page, 4to, integral blank with recipient's docket, dusty at top edge. "I have the honor to transmit for your Royal Highness information, the appointed Rendezvous, Order of Battle, and different Orders of Sailing, with the Alterations (confined chiefly to the Substitutions of the Flag White with a Blue Cross Page 11 Art 13, for the Flag White with a Red Border in pages 5 & 9) which were judged expedient to be made in the Signal & Instruction Books, since the return of the Channel Fleet into Port. A Signal Book so corrected, with the Flag...substituted...will be presented to your Royal Highness herewith...."