Sir, 

We have received your Letter of the fourth instant,¹ and in Answer to it We beg leave to say, that We approve of your Refusal of the twelve hundred Livres to M^r. William Morris, and for the future We expect that you pursue the same Line of Conduct and advance Money to no person whatsoever upon our Account, or in Expectation that We shall repay it, without our express Order.

You are not entitled to pay any Captains Orders or Bills, upon any occasion whatsoever, without our previous Instructions. Goods, not Money, are to be provided for the Captains, and these Goods are to extend no farther than necessary Repairs of their Ships, necessary Victuals for their Companies, and one Suit of Cloaths for each person to be delivered to the Captain or such Officer as he shall direct, to be delivered to the People as they shall want, and charged to the Individuals on the Ships Books that they may be deducted out of their pay.—

As to the prize,² if She should arrive, you will dispose of her, in Concert with Cap^t. Whipple, as you and he shall think best for the Interest of the public & the Captors.

M^r. Monthieu,³ has offered Us the Flammand to go to America upon freight, to carry the Goods which We have now on Hand. We desire You to inform Us, what Freight We ought to give for this Ship that We may know whether it is for the public Interest to hire this Vessel or not.⁴ We have the Honor to be &c

PS. Captain Jones’s Expences to and from Paris you will please to pay and charge to the public Account.⁵