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Very Secret

The very material Intelligence communicated to me by the Kings Command in Your Lordship's most confidential Letter of the 18th Inst agrees, as You will have observed, in several Respects with the imperfect accounts I have from time to time transmitted, particularly in my Letter No 53. in which I mentioned by Name Messrs chaumont & DuBourg. I am persuaded that the Person whom I there called Pennet is the Monsieur Pinette your Lordship mentions, He was called to me by the Name I gave him in my Letter and represented as a German Merchant, but my Information came from People of a lower Class with whom such Inacuracies are very frequent. I am likewise persuaded that Mr Deane is the Person that was mentioned to me by the name of Dana and think it very likely that He came in Company with Nathan Rumsey.... and may intend to return to America together in that Vessel now waiting at Bordeaux of which I gave Your Lordship a Description, and which perhaps may deserve to be watched: as it would I think be of some Importance to seize Mr Deane.

There is one Part of the Intelligence Your Lordship has received which I own, I am at a Loss to comprehend. That Beaumarchais should be recommended as an active hustling Man, and ready for this or any similar Business I can easily conceive, but I do not understand how He who has neither Money nor Credit could offer to credit the Americans, to the amount of three Millions of Livres unless this Court have secretly engaged some Merchants or adventurers here to risk that Sum.