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Honorable Gentlemen. By this Opportunity I forward you Sundry dispatches from Congress and the Committee of Secret Correspondence Still at Baltimore, and from them I have just received the enclosed resolve of Congress dated the 5th Inst Copies of which I Shall transmit you by various Conveyances, in order that you may give orders for procuring the Articles required and to have them Collected ready for Embarkation the places of their destination are not yet fixed but you will hear from the Committee or from me very Soon on that Subject, in the mean time the Articles may be provided and you may rest Assured of our utmost exertions to make you effective remittances to Answer all your Engagements — We have at length got one of our Frigates the Randolph Capt Biddle Cruizing on this Coast to meet any Single Frigates of the Enemy and hope for good Accounts from her, She Sails fast is well Manned and Appointed, others will Soon join her and our utmost ex[e]rtions will be used to put the Navy on a respectable and formidable footing fast as possible. . . .