I have the Pleasure to acquaint you of our Transactions.

After we Left Calais Road, Sunday Evg. 13th. Instt. we Sailed for Dover, & there; felle in with a large Ship, wch. we Took to be an English Ship, so gave Chase, came up & Boarded her; She proved to be a Dutch West Ind[ies] man moung. 16 Guns Bound to Amsterdam.

Monday we Sailed along the English Shoare to the West; we Boarded Several Dutch & Sweedish Ships; we only met an English 10. Guns Cutter which Sheerd off.

Tuesday about 4. o’Clock in the morning we Saw 5 English Briggs Close under Beachy head, we gave them Chase & abot. 8. we Came up, but so shole as 6. fathom water, 4. of them were armed & Caried 6. & 8. guns each, however we engaged them for 2. hours & Chattered them so much they were forced to run on Shoare & at Same Time we had but 3. fathoms Water & within gun Shot of a Strong fort, & we had a large fleet, under our Lee, under Convoy of 5. Kings Cutters, & about a League we had an Other Kings Cutter to windward of us, we were oblidged to part our Prises, & the Cutter to windward gave us Chace, but we out Sailed her untill we lost our Top masts Irons & then she Came up with us & an engagement Insued, but after 5. or 6. Broad Sides She [in a second hand:] Sheered of, and we Gave her Chase, but Could not Come up neither untill She Got in to The fleet, we had no men Killed not yet wounded but we have Great reason to Think that there is a great many of Them both kill’d & wounded for we were So nigh that The Capt. and I Spoke to Each other and we heard them Crey must dreadfully, there is no further particulars untill Saturday Evening Off the Lands end we fell in with, and took three briggs, and One Sloop and maned Them and Sent them to Morlaix, and Sunday Morning fell in with, and took three Briggs, and a Sloop and one of the Briggs I Ransomed and The other two & Sloop I maned and Sent away but the one That was of the most Value I took my Self in Tow, and monday Evening about 4 ô clock 6. Leagues from the Isle of Bas Saw a Ship that I took for a fregate but Coming nigh to her She hoisted french Coulors, but I woud not Trust her but hawled my wind and the Brigg still in Tow and the fregate Soon put about after us, So we keept him in play untill night and Then, Cast the Brigg off and Boore downe upon him and he Gave us Chase, and by that means the brigg Got Clear and is Safe arived here, but there is none of the remainder arrived here as yet but I hear that there is one in a port about 7 Leagues to the Eastward which I hope is true, for if they Should be retacken we Shou’d be very Short of men, for there is 21. of the Best of the Crew on Board of them, I have 24 prisoners and one Ransomer on Board, and your directions is much wanted, you may write the State of the affair to his Excellency Mr. franklin and be Sure to Send Mr. John Diot here to take Care of the prises as I will do nothing before he Comes, as it is a Valuable one, with more Than £5000 Sterling Therefore I will remain here untill you Send him or Some other here or untill I have Some account of my men for if they are Gone I Shall not be able to Go out again, untill They are replaced but I hope in my next Letter you Shall have a Good acount of them. I am &ca.