I have the pleasure by the Sloop Porpoise address’d to Joshua Johnson at Nantes, to acknowledge the Rect. of your favour of 20 Oct & 23 Novr last. The Enemies privateers have been & are still so numerous off this Coast as to render the Remittances in Tobacco which I intended some time ago to make you impracticable. Have therefore sent Colo Lloyd all the money I had by me, who is to get bills of Mr Holker the French Consell at Philadelphia at or under 900 percent & I have not a doubt but you will certainly receive them in a very short time after the Rect of this to the Amt of £ 1000 Stg at the least— I cannot but flatter myself with the pleasing hopes of seeing you & your family next Summer, as we have many reasons to expect England cannot unless doomed to inevitable destruction, continue the War— The House & Lots which Govr. Eden has in Town may I think be had on very reasonable Terms & would suit you well. Had you not better make a purchase of it before you leave Europe I think it wou’d be a good bargain at three thousand five hundred pounds Sterling— I have already mentiond that Hammond will not rent or sell his House. If you shou’d have Occasion for other Remittances than what I have mention’d you may draw upon me here as far as Eight hundd [hundred] pounds Sterling at 20 ds Sight to be paid in Currt money here & your daft shall be duly honour’d— Exhange is too fluctuating to give you any permanent Idea thereof— It is now from 800 percent to 900—& it may be higher & probably lower—the unsettled State in which our Affairs are is the Cause of its varying— Mrs. Lloyd will be much oblig’d to you to send her the perfumes mention’d in the enclos’d List & you will oblige me if it be not too much Trouble to send me by some Oppy. Six doz. best Claret & the like Quantity of Burgundy & Champagne & draw on me if you please for the money to be paid here if it will answer— Mrs. Lloyd joins me in the tenderest Love to you & our Sister, & the dear little Boys.

I am my dear Brother Your’s Affectionately