I take the liberty to inclose to your Exellency two letters I received in Paris; one from Comtesse houdetot and the other from Mr. St. John de Crevecoeur; when I left France I proposed to wait on your Excellency on my arrival at new york, but my Business cald me immediately to Boston; I shall take it as a particular favour (as I intend to remain some time in this town) to send me a letter of recommandation for Governor Bodowin, or some other acquintance your Excellency may have in town.

I am now in the French Service, Lieutenant in the Navy which puts it out my power to return to Detroit untill the place is evaquated by the British; my commissions of Juge and justice of the peace &c. have been, long ago, given to other people and the commander has posession of my house; my family is in the greatest Distress there and I am sent here to wait untill the French government agrees to purchase timber and other produce from the united States of America: God, only, knows when that will be finished:

I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Your most obediant and humble Servant