MM. Dubourg, Debout and Company, having undertaken to provide the farmers general with twenty thousand hogsheads of tobacco from the farms of Virginia and Maryland, propose to carry merchandise of French fabrication from France to United States ports, to bring back not only tobacco, but various other commodities from America, to the reciprocal advantage of both nations.

They ask the favor of MM. Franklin, Deane, and Lee, and the protection of the Continental Congress, in order to facilitate the sale and distribution of European merchandise, as well as the purchase and acquisition of American commodities at fair and reasonable prices; also to help them gain safe and free entry and exit from ports on the American continent, and navigational security along the coasts, as much as the present situation allows.

They will make efforts to deserve this favor and protection by their zeal and trustworthiness, and by a strong will to provide for all the needs to which this situation could give rise for the generous people of the United States, and for their worthy and respectable leaders.