Sir

Your favour of the 13^th. instant I received this morning. We approve of your Method of Weighing the Iron at N. London or Norwich. the Anchors M^r. Babcock¹ has got near all his pay for.

We request you will make the best terms you can with Mess^rs. Browns² for the Cannon and have them cast got ready and forwarded as soon as possible.³ We have no other dependance for Cannon but on the Browns. 

We received Letters from Maj^r. Huntington⁴ informing us the furnace at Salisbury⁵ would not be in blast untill next Spring. M^r. Warren⁶ is gone home for a few days. hope I shall soon have the pleasure of your Company here. We forwarded one of your Letters⁷ by the Packett for France which sailed Yesterday.⁸ Inclosed you have the opinion of the Court Martial on Cap^t. Manley.⁹ the Court is now Sitting upon the Trial of Cap^t. M^c Neill.¹⁰ no News. 

We are respectfully Your Humble Serv^ts

P.S. Cap^t. Hopkins is arrived here in a Prize who left England the 10^th. of April last and he says there was no news of the Boston in London then, therefore hope she is safe arrived in France. 

[P.S.] By a prize Ship from London 27^th April at Salem we have the good News of the Safe arrival of the Ship Boston in France,¹¹

JN^o DESHON