Gentln

The Above is Copy of our last,² since which have not had the Pleasure of hearing from you, this now Serves to Inform you that we this day dispatched your Schooner Sally Capt [Samuel] Avery, and by whom You will receive the Invoice & Sales of her Cargo, we are extreemly mortified that the duty on Oils are So grait, and which we where Oblig'd to pay on those recd by your two Vessels we Came this day from making Some Arrangements for the demunition of the Duty, which we Expect to reduce to One third of what we paid before, as we shall make your Oils pass under the name of a kind of Oil that pays the lowest duty here; we hope to Obtain favr from the Farmer Generals of France; but will beg you to keep that a Secret, not being Willing to let any One here but Us enjoy that Priveledge (which we shall Obtain with much pain) and only those that Come from your part There arrived here the 19th Inst Mr Nichols from Nantucket loaded with Oil, who we are in hopes Will put the Cargo in our hands and who we expect shall enjoy that Benefiet. We think Gentlemen that you Will be Content with our Transactions, as we every day are able to do better ー hope you Will coninue to Send Vessels to Us here, and Also recomend your friends ー You Will be kind enough to Send me About Six Boxes of SpermaCeti Candles, by the first Vessels you Send hereー

We have nothing new to Write you I am Every day ocupied afournishing the Congress & Others of your provinces with Amunitions.ー

Mr Dean from the Province of Connecticutt, lately member of the Secret Committe at Phia is at Parris, Also the Brother of Mr Robert Morris and Several Others. one Says, they are your Ministers in France. We Shall See at the end of your War which of Us all has render'd the most servis to the Contnnent. I flatter mySelf that one will be content with my Transactions, also with the Prices of the Merchandize I sent them, where the Difference will soon be Scene I am under no Other Doubt but of having All Merchandize upon the best Terms passable, and that you May Injoy the Benefeit thereon for we are Content with the Commisn of 2 pCt the friendship & the      of Obliging your Nation is more agreeable to Us than all the Benefe[i]ts in the world.

In case you Shall think of sending any thing to Bordeaux I take the Liberty of recomending to you the House of Messrs Reculide Bamarein & Raimbeaux who we think will do your Buisness better than Any Other House there can do. In the interum we Remain with much Respect ー Gentlemen [&c.]