I take the liberty to Inclose you a letter from some Americans who are taken out of some Merchant Ships and sent off to serve his Majesty the King of France. On receipt of the letter I waited on the Comissary General here respecting the matter. He told me as they had served in the Merchant Ships and got great Rum? Money that they ought to serve the King, he and I differ’d in our opinions. I told him I should write you on the subject. This is not the only thing that is fell under my Eye since I left Boston. At the Cape they serve them the same and what between the French and English we have not a Sailor left in New England. Several fine Vessels have been obliged to lay by for want of men. I do not know what I shall do myself for men as I cannot take out a Frenchman with me. For want of an agent at Cape Francois we suffer every thing in fact. Our Vessels who carry in any prisoners there give them up to the French Comissary they are Exchanged for French men while our people lay in the Jamaica Prisons till they are starved then Hunger compells them to go on board a British Ship. So that not One out of ten that are taken and carried to Jamaica ever return this you may depend on to be a fact. While I lay at the Cape I took upon me to take out of Vessels of different nations Numbers of Americans who were compell’d to serve by some means or other. A Danish frigate had taken the Liberty to keep Seven in the Island of St Thomais some of them I got. So that we are kickd about by every raschally nation that pleases. I could heartily wish that a Deputy Consul was settled here that we might have some degree of Justice shown us. I hope it will not be longeer that takes place. I perhaps have taken more upon me than I ought to have done but as a Subject of the United States of America it makes my blood boil whenever I see things of this Kind Take place and I cannot help speaking.

I Inclose your Excellency likewise a Bill for Thirty dollars. Shall be much Obliged to you if you would endorse it and forward it. I am with the greatest respect Your Excellencys Most Obedient and Most Humble Servant