To all Captains and Commanders of Vessels of War, Privateers and Letters of Marque belonging to the United States of America

His most Christian Majesty having consented to a Proposition of the Court of London for renewing the Communication between Dover and Calais, and having to that Effect granted Pass-ports for a like Number of English Vessels, to fulfil that Object—And his Minister for Foreign affairs having by a Letter to us of the thirteenth Instant, requested, We would give immediate Orders to all Subjects of the United States of America to respect the Vessels thus protected by the Passports of his most Christian Majesty:

We therefore the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Said United States at the Court of France hereby require you to let all such Vessels pass and repass according to the tenor of their Pass ports, without any Molestation or Hindrance.

Given at Passy this 16th. Day of November 1782.