William Temple Franklin to William Hodgson (unpublished)
Passy 21. Oct. 1780
Sir,

My Grandfather being laid up with the Gout & unable to write directs me to send you the enclosed List of Prisoners, made by American Vessels & deliver’d as such on the 5th Inst. to Capt. George Bagster of the Cartel Ship James then at Calais. You find Sd. Captains Receit. for them at the Bottom of the List. I take these to be the Men whose release you lately proposed. My Grandfather desires you will see Credit given for them. We have not as yet an Ansr. from our Correspondent in Spain relative to the Prisoners made by American vessels on that Coast. But by late advices from America we hear that those made by Capt. Harridan who took the Privateer Tartar, were sent to America & are arrived there. I have &c.

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