May it pleas your Excellency

Once more to hear the humble pettion of the Marriners and Marienes on board the Continentall ship Alliance now Lieing in the port of L orient.

Haveing repeatedly pettition’d your Excellance on this subject, Receaving No answer Obliges us to Address you agan.

Considoring our selves therefore as a free people We supose that we have an undobted Rite to ask for that which is to all Intents and purposes our own, more Especially when we recollect that we have taken so many vallueable prises which are all safely Arriv’d in the different ports where they were order’d. If the Union, And betsy are given up, it is not for us to sustain the loss, But when we Considor that they are paid for, as in all probabillity they are, our suffring families, makes our hearts to ache at the thought of Leaving france without our full due of prise money and six months wages dureing the time of that successfull cruise, it cannot be expected that we can or will quietly weigh our anchor till we have receav’d the farthing, we therefore Once more apply to Your Excellency as the person Intended And appointed by our country to se Justice done by Every Subject of the United States in (Europe) to take our posts and se that we Enjoy our full property, and allso Restore unto us our Rightfull commandor undor whom We enterd and are willing to serve, as we are concious that he is undeserving of the aspersions that are cast upon his character and reflects cowardice upon ours Whereas upon the Evening of the 23. of septr. had things been mannag’d According to his Wise decorning No ship would have been lost nor so much blood spill and the ships have been taken with less Dammage done them, we are fully persuaded, that had we not left the scarbrough to the pallace the moment we did the Rikchard must have Sunk or Struck Which is the oppinion of many of the Richards crew. Moreover if our request be granted most of the people who came from prison will be content to serve their Country under him But at present we are unanimous in our Resolves to Claim our Lawfull Comr Pr Landais as our Captain has done no wrong, and provided he be cuptable let us take him with us to be granted a greater uneasyness will prevail among us, we hope therfore that Your Excellency will well consider the matter and send a sattisfactory answer to Mr. Pearce our gunner as we desir’d before, as a meer Receipt will only agravate us more, If this be granted it will warm our minds with fresh courage and bind us under fresh Obbligations to pray for your Excellency and serve our country.

We Whose names are underwritten do declare the whole of What is Recorded hearin are our Reall sentiments

n:b: those few whose names are oblitterated are belonging to the Richard who did it unknown to us, the greater part of them being anxious to signe the same