A few days ago the Brigantine Sally who was taken on her passage from Great Brittain to the West lndeas by your Sloop American Revenue safely arrivd into this Port. Captain William Power the Prize Master in pursuance of Captain [Samuel] Champlins directions has submitted the Vessel & Cargo to my management. Her tryal will come on the Court of Admiralty in a few days and as no dispute can possibly arrise respecting the legallity of the Capture, will in twenty days be sold for the Bennefit of the Captors. Continental Money not being easily procured, I shall vest the Nt Proceeds of Vessel and Cargo (the Value of which cannot at this time be nearly ascertaind in the Draughts of our Favours on the Continental Treasurer Those I have already engaged & shall remit them by Captain Power unless Otherwise directed by you in the intrim.

I Congratulate you Sir on the Very Successful cruize of the American Revenue, as well as on the Variety of Good fortune I am told you have experienced in the course of the Present War. Occracock lying so contiguous to the Gulph & so inviron'd with Shoals may prove a safe port for your Prizes and I believe no Market on the Continent at Present exceeds this Not only for Prize Goods but also for Prize Vessels, Any of which if you chose to have purchased on Account might be Advantageously loaded with Tobacco or Naval Stores for France, Corn pease or L[illegible] for the West Indeas.

With an Offer of my best Services I am Sir [&c.]

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