à la pte du jour le vent a cessé absolument, pendant la journée il a Soufflé au N E. petit frais. J’ai envoyé le Stanley1 à la decouverte qui nous a rendu compte qu’il n’avait rien vu.
[Translation]
[August 1778.] [Anchorage in the Eastern Passage, R.I.] Friday 14.
at daybreak the wind ceased absolutely, during the day it blew to the NE, a light breese. I have sent the Stanley1 to discover it, which he reported to us that he had seen nothing.
D, FrPNA, Marine B4, vol. 147, fols. 64–65.
1. The French squadron had captured H.M. armed brigantine Stanley and placed it under the command of officier auxiliare Boulouvard de Barentin.