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Dear Sir—

Your esteemed favour of the 1^st. Inst.¹ Rec^d. last Night inclosing your Letter, which I've forwarded. also the News Paper, for which, I thank you—I have not received any Orders for going on with the Ship² therefore they must have miscarried, if they were sent on, should Orders come without a supply of money it will be impossible for me to carry them into execution, to order the Board at Boston³ to supply me with money will by no means be so well as for me to have it directly here, for if it goes to Boston, of course their own wants must be first supplied & if any left it will come to me. there fore if anything fails it must be at this Port for want of proper supplies, give me but an equal chance here, and if the Shipping is not as soon dispatched, & as well equip't from this place & with as little expence as any other Port then the fault will be here.—I could wish that Yards were once established, at the most proper places, thousands might be saved, in my Opinion. 

I wrote you in my last Letter to desire the Marine Committee to forward on the amount of the several sums of money I've received of them, as I intend closing my Acco^ts. With the Board at Boston. pray see this done immediately if you please & that the Board at Boston have full Powers to settle my Acco^ts. with the Marine Committee.—

We have Just heard of the arrival of the Commissioners at New-York⁴ should this be true, please to make short work with them, by their acceeding to our Independance, withdrawing their Fleets & Armies, & their Trade will take it's course; numbers of Cruisers are in our Bay, we have Just heard of the loss of the Ship Portsmouth—⁵. . . I am, [&c.]