George R. An additional instruction to the commanders and officers of all our ships, and of all vessels having letters of marque and reprizals against the French King, the King of Spain, and the States-General of the United Provinces, or their subjects, or others inhabiting their territories and dominions: also against the inhabitants of our rebellious colonies in America, and all others going to, or coming from trading in, the said colonies, by virtue of our several commissions, bearing date the fifth day of August, 1778, the twenty-third day of June, 1779, the twentieth day of December, 1780, and by virtue of an act of Parliament passed in the seventeenth year of our reign. Given at our court at St. James's, the fifteenth day of February, 1781, and in the twenty-first year of our reign.