I feel sad at the thought of troubling you so immediately. My forgetfulness of yesterday and engagements do day, must be my appology for the Occasion and Mode. I am bound for North Carolina, in my Passage, I shall take the Circuit of New Providence from expectations of procuring by Purchase, or address a Clearance of a Cargo of Tobacco from that Island to Europe; and which Papers, I shall take into Carolina with me; and which, as the Gulph Stream Sweeps that shore, will Effectually protect my vessel, she being under the Imperial Flag, in her Return to France. Any Assistance Sir, you’ll please to give me to facilitate my sucess in this, it be but a bear Certificate to the Governor, of my being a Subject of the United States, will be acknowledged with warm gratitude.

Should I not be able to see Mr. Chardon, Mr Ridley has very politely offer’d to take my Affairs into his Charge, and carry on any necessary Prosecution which their nature may require: Permit me Sir in this Case, to entreat your Excellency’s Counsel and Protection; as thro you, alone, neither Mr. Ridley or myself can only be known, in the one Case in which, Congress has enterfer’d. And which appears to me only to be necessary to be regularly laid before the French Court in order to obtain Decision; and restore to me my Property.

I am Sir, with every Duty and Respect Your Excellency’s most Obedient and most Humble Servant