[Extract]
Most Secret No 88
My Lord

Yesterday Morning I had the Honour of Your Lordships Letter No 34, with its several inclosures, relative to a Business, which is now upon the point of being terminated, and I hope to Your entire Satisfaction. Before I went to M de Vergennes (who received us Yesterday at his House in Town) I was informed that the Promise, He, arid M de Maurepas made me, had been punctually fulfilled, The Moment I came into Him, he asked me with a Smile, if I had received Letters from Dunkirk, and without waiting for an Answer, said, that the Courier was returned, that part of the Orders he carried were executed already, as the Pirate Captain, and his Crew were in actual Custody, and that the Packet, and the Brig, should be immediately delivered, but that a proper Person must be appointed by us, to receive them. He proposed to me, that I should write to Mr Frazer, to desire Him, de s'entendre avec le Commandant de Dunkerque, with regard to the delivery of these Vessels. I readily agreed to this, and have accordingly written the inclosed Letter to Mr Frazer. M de Vergennes Said, that it was a satisfaction to them, to find, that there was not a single frenchman on board the Pirate . . .