Orders to Captain Prowse

Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, RN, directs Captain Prowse of HMS Pompeii in 1806 to sail to the Bay of Policastro, in the Mediterranean Sea, and there to report to Don Alessandro Mandarini, vice-president of Basilicata. Also, he is directed to prevent the enemy from occupying posts near the shore, to abstain from from helping or supplying local insurgents, and to sail north and cruise between Naples and the Procida Passage to prevent the enemy from sending a flotilla or convoys south.

Sir William Sidney Smith papers, 1794-1862, MS 267, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.