John Bondfield to the American Commissioners
ALS: Harvard University Library
<Bordeaux, May 8, 1778: Vessels from Georgia have arrived
with news that a shipment of specie had been landed from Havana;
the state’s currency is greatly inflated. Friends in Cadiz
write that the government is making it difficult for them to sell
Conyngham’s prizes, and ask whether the ships might be addressed
to me; what am I to tell them? I assume from your
silence that you disapprove my request to fit out an armed vessel
here. The new mast for the Boston delayed her for 15 days,
but she now has it on board. Capt. McFarland sailed yesterday;
Mr. Barnett came with him but failed to get passage home; I
shall try to procure him employment. The Governor of Goree,
who landed last evening, told me that two American privateers
put in there in February with three prizes; he had to
order them to leave within 24 hours, and has since heard nothing
of them.>
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