Dear Sir

I have Just received your favor of the 5th Novr p the New York Packett, by which conveyance also I intend this shall be forwarded to you ー I have wrote you many Letters since the one you mention to have received by Mr Sims, which I hope are got safe to hand before this time [I wrote] a Letter dated 5th Sept p the Rachell Capt [James] Tibbet which I should be very sorry should miscarry, as it was of Consequence, but in the present Dreadful Situation of Affairs, we have few Opportunities of writing and out of those few, have reason to fear some never come to hand. ー You cannot conceive any situation more unhappy and every way disagreeable than the American Houses, or rather the Houses concern'd in the American Trade are [one line torn] very unfavorable situation of American Affairs, will hold out with me, God only knows, but I have dreadful fears and Apprehensions about me, respecting them. ー

Respecting what you have said in several of your Letters about sending out the Adventure again, in the present situation of things it cannot be done, As the Parliament have [enacted] a Bill restraining all Intercourse between Great Br[itain and] America while these troubles last, and as the Post O[ffice] have Advertized they will for[ward] free of Postage [to any] body here desirous of sending it to [torn]ds in [torn] Copy of this new Act, I have wrap a Couple for you As to the Adventure I shall sell if I can, for I see not [the] least prospect of having Imploy for her unless it was [in] the Government Service, which you may suppose I n[ever] should think of putting her while She must be Impl[oyed] against our Country Men and fellow Subjects in Amer[ica] and therefore as I said before I mean to sell her ー Inclosed you have a Letter from a Gilbert Ormsby Es[qr] [line torn] was known, is really not equal by an ⅛th or ¼d pt to what it was sold for, at this time last year I have made a finish of the Adventures Load as you will see by the Inclosed List of prices, and since selling that Cargo the price has rather got down than up ー Indeed to speak more properly there has been no market at all, but what the Sellers out of mere Necessity have been obliged to force, and you may easily Judge how that would Operate; I have, as I before [wrote] you I should been Obliged to make one of the above mentioned Sellers of Tobacco, and have parted with some part of Our Patapsceo, Potomack, & Patuxent Cargoes for the best of which I have not been able to Obtain more by the Lighter than 3d ¾ pt for the Middling sorts 3 5/8, and for lower sorts only 3½ ー and yet I was obliged to sell, as this I am not Singular in, every body have done the same, or what I esteem worse, and that is, Ship't it off to Holland or Hambro and drawn upon it ー

[Let me kn]ow in what manner Mr Dulany has [line torn] that nothing of Consequence is to be expected from there ー You may let Wallace & Davidson know that I applied to Joshua Johnson to have the Value of our Tobacco in McKirdy wrote off on his Policy but that he did not Chuse to do it Not withstanding your Agreement in the [torn] I was therefore obliged at a short Notice to [torn] Insurance for it myself, The Ship is since arrived [torn] I've got the Tobacco ー Expecting to have an [torn] I remain