I receiv’d a few days past a Packet of Letters from your Excellency for America, which agreeable to your orders shall be forwarded by the first Packet Boat. We have frequently occasions from this Port directly to Philadelphia which are as safe as the Packet Boats, by which we could some times forward your Letters if you gave discretionary orders—it would save twenty Sols per Letter, which certainly is not an object in affairs of Consequence, but I apprehend many of the Letters which you send to be forwarded by the Packet are left in your hands by Persons who never think of the Postage. You will oblige me by Causing the inclosed Letter to be deliver’d to Mr Williams and believe me with great respect Sir Your most humble Servant