I receiv’d yours of the 29th. past, and after the Manner in which you quitted the Ship, my clear and positive Refusal of replacing you contained in mine of March the 12th. and my furnishing you with a considerable Sum to enable you to go to America for a Trial, I am surpris’d to find you at L’Orient when I thought you had long since been on your Voyage, and to be told that “you had been waiting ever since your Arrival there for my Orders to retake the Command of the Alliance,” when I had never before heard of your being there, or given you the least Expectation of the kind.— The whole Affair between us will be laid before our Superiors, who will judge justly of the Consistency and Propriety of your Conduct and of mine. I wave therefore any farther Dispute with you. But I charge you not to meddle with the Command of the alliance or create any Disturbance on board her, as you will answer the contrary at your Peril. I am, sir, Your most obedient & most humble Servant