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My Lords Commissrs. of the Admiralty having received a Letter from Sir Stanier Porten, Secretary to Lord Weymouth, respecting an application from the Sieur Havré of Havre, to Lord Stormont His Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, to be reimbursed the Expences incurred by the reception of 13 English Seamen on board his Ship the Robust Benoist Master, lately arrived at Havre, the said Men having been in a forcible manner put on board that Ship in her Voyage from Martinico by a Rebel Privateer called the Rover Captain Rosseter of Boston;² I am commanded by their Lordships to send you the said Letter with its Inclosures, and to signify their direction to you to take the same into your consideration, and to report what allowance you conceive it may be proper to make for the Subsistance of these Men, and in what manner it should be paid; and with your Report you will please to return the said Letter and its inclosures to &c