We had the honour to address your excelency the 22d. inst. on the Subject of an insurance we effected by order and for account of Messrs. Jonathan Nesbitt & Co. of L’orient on the american ship Nancy Capn. Sewel parted from Philadelphia for L’orient the 16 of March 1783. arrived safe, the conditions of the Policy are that said ship arriving without risk of capture the Premio would be five per cent if the contrary Twenty five, its evident from the 22d. article of the Treaty of Peace between the kings of France and Great Britain that hostilities were to have ceased in all the Seas to the Northward of the Canaries whether in the ocean or mediteranean on the 3d. March which is plainly demonstrated by the inclosed authentick coppy of a sentence pronounced by the Admiralty Court of Tortola in the cause of the Brigg Justine Capne. Michateau captur’d on the 4th. day of March 1783. at 4 o’clock A.M. in 30 Degrees 40 minutes north latitude and given up to her owners notwithstanding these proofs produced at the Court of Admiralty. Sentence has been given against us to pay by Provision and in cash Twenty Five per Cent to the underwriters in consequence of the Comte de Vergennes letter of the 15th. November; we have enter’d an appeal but are obliged to pay the money. If your Excellency is not pleased to interfare and obtain a quick decision of this question from the Minister, this Lawsuit may continue for a number of years and the Proprietors of this Ship lye out of a considerable Sum. We have the highest confidence that your Excellency will take this affair into consideration and obtain a quick decision on it. We have the honor to be Your Excellencys Most obedient and most devoted humble Servants