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. . . I am writing to Comte d'Orvilliers, who informed me as did you of the Privateer General Mifflin of Boston putting into Brest, which, according to the examination which has been made, proved to need some repairs, that I expect, that as soon as this Ship is set right again, she will go to sea and away from our Coasts. You did well to pay no attention to the proposal that has been made to you by Capt. [William] Day who commands this Privateer, of changing his gunpowder, which is found to be of mediocre quality, and to inform him that the King his prohibited the delivery of any Munitions to Foreign Vessels; but that his gunpowder, deposited in the magazine when he came into the port, would be returned to him. . . .
