Sir

By the Account setled With Mr Comissary Spry there appears to be a Ballance of thirteen Prisoners Due to you ー And by Accounts setled between Sr Peter Parker & Capt Ayers [John Ayres] at Rhode Island there is a Ballance Due to us of fifty four ー since which there has been seilt to Rhode Island the Offic[e]rs & Crew belonging to the Milfords Tender in number about fifty, for which there has been no Return ー And by a writing, now Deliverd Capt Glover, under the hand of Capt Jones & thirty three others, it will appear that they have been Discharged, & have Actually Sailed for Ireland in a Vessell they have been permitted to buy for that purpose on Promise that they use their utmost Endeavours to Cause the Release of an Equall number of American prisoners now in Your hands ー And we now send you by this Cartell Twenty prisoners besides a Negro Woman and Six Children which will Leave a Ballance Due to us of one hundred & forty five Prisoners ー over & above these we some time since Permitted Capt John McDonnell to purchase a Vessell at Plymoth from whence he sailed with about sixty prisoners for Ireland, ー All these things Considered, we may not Doubt but that you will !mediately Release Such of our Country men as are now in Your Custody, or at Least an equall number with those now sent together with those Discharged as aforesaid

This will be handed you by Capt Jno Glover who is Properly authorised to Negotiate the Exchange of prisoners at Halifax, with whom we have no Doubt, but you will order your Comissary to Negotiate this affair ー

Since the foregoing have heard that Doctr Parker Clark a Physician belonging to Newbury port in this State is Confined at Hallifax a prisoner, we now send by this Cartell Doctr Madden of Equal Rank with the said Parker, who has been a prisoner here for some time past, and presume the said Parker Clark will be Exchanged for him & return'd in this Cartell