Judge Bryan and myself have read and considered the Letter from Mr: Otto, Charge de Affairs of France, directed to Your Excellency, concerning the Sieur Fontaine de Brassine.

As de Brassine is a French subject, and was arrested as a French Officer by the direction of General The Count Rochambeau, and carried on board a French Frigate, from whence he was taken on shore, and then arrested in a civil action and confined in the goal of Philadelphia; if he has satisfied his creditors, we find no legal objection to his being delivered up by Council agreeably to Mr: Otto’s request. The Sheriff and Goal-Keeper have been conversed with on this occasion, and from them we have learned, that it is the desire of the prisoner to go to France. Volenti non sit injuria. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency’s most obedient humble servant