I troubled you some Time in Decemr. with a Letter per a private Conveyance in which I desired the favor of you to make enquiry at the Marine Office, relative to the Freighting or agreeing for freight of a Ship Called the Weeren Frienden which Ship was at L’Orient & designed as is supposed for an India Voyage. I remember to have had some Conversation with you when last at Passy relative to this Ship & his Excellency tho’t there wou’d be no Difficulty in procuring the necessary Information from the Office if there had been any Tender made of such a Ship for Freight or any agreement whatever relative to her by the Marine Minister—if there was it must have been in the Course of the last Summer the Ship having arrived at LOrient in May last & was lost going into Dock at that place in Augt.—as we suppose to be fitted for an outward voyage to India, the Ship was Originally Insured to LOrient & Bourdx. & we believe the Voyage ended & was designed to end at L’Orient—Your kind attention to this matter will much oblige me, I [?] the pacquet per Mr. Oswald & shall have the Honor to write his Excellency very shortly having done the needfull & rejoice most cordially that all is now Settled— Yr. most Hble. Servt.