I send you the particulars in writing, of what I mention’d to you yesterday, & as the Request is made to me, by a worthy honest fellow, if you can conveniently get it done, you will oblige me much. It is to procure the enlargement of George Taylor, late Lieutenant in the Chance Privateer of London, & now a Prisoner at Bayonne. My friend writes me, that if Liberty was granted him, to go to England upon his Parole, a Person of equal Rank, wou’d be immediately sent to France, to be exchanged for him.—

I had a letter some Months ago from another friend, concerning one Mr. John Craig, now a Prisoner at Angers in Anjou. It seems he was Passenger in the ship Matty of Glasgow, taken some time about the Month of June last, on her Voyage from Clyde to the West Indies, & carried into L’Orient. From L’Orient Mr. Craig was carried to Fougere, & from Fougere to Angers, where he now is.—My Friend writes me, that Mr. Craig was only a Passenger, going to the West Indies, upon his private Mercantile Affairs, not belonging to the Army or Navy, & in no shape in the service of government; & he adds, that he is inform’d, that it is the Rule in England, to discharge the subjects of France, who are taken Prisoners, & who are in the same Predicament that Mr. Craig is. My Friend is very desirous to obtain his discharge. If you can conveniently make enquiry, if any thing can be done, you will add to the favours already confer’d on Yr. faithfull hble Serv.