I recvd. your favour of the 16th Instant too late to answer it by the return of Post.
I shall observe your Directions relative to shipping on board the Grammont. I hope she will be able to take all the Cloaths and Hose that remain, but I shall not get a single Case of arms on board and I have at least 300 in the magazine ready to ship.
Inclosed is the account of Tannay, who has occasioned the Dolphins seizure, and the sentence of the admiralty upon it.
I beg leave to refer you to my Letter of the 6th January for a State of the fact. The amount of the matter is that a Congress vessell has been seized and sold to pay a rascal who had run away with a Prize, drawn £147 Sterling which he has expended and deserted from the service. I have the honour to be most respectfully Honorable Gentlemen Your most obedient servant