Sir,

I have the Honor to acquaint your Excellency that I have dispatched the Schooner Desire Capt^n. Setton, belonging to Monsr Roux & Company of this Town with the Effects which were plundered from some of His Britannic Majesty's Subjects by a privateer commanded by one Heguy.¹ I send also by this dispatch a List of the Effects sent on board the Schooner & signed by Mons^r. Roux the Merch^t. after the Examination I have made in this Matter there are many of the Things wanting, but I assure your Excellency that the plunderers shall be detained till they have made up the deficiency therefore I desire your Excellency will send back by the Captain of the Schooner, a List, attested by the proprietors of what is wanting, as well as a Receipt of those things which shall be delivered to You by the said Captain. For to renew my Complaints in my Letter of the 22^d of this Month, in case y^e Vessel who brings this shall arrive before the one I wrote by M^r. Hamilton who sailed the 25^th. for Jamaica I send You a duplicate of the declaration made before the Admiralty by Mons^r: Gaspard Poitivin Capt^n. of the polacco, Providence, belonging to Sette in Languedoc & Mons^r: Nougier supercargo on board the said polacco, the two deponents assert that they were actually bound for Sette, that they had no contraband Goods on board, consequently their Cargo Vessel and all their Effects have been unjustly declared a good prize by the Court of Admiralty at Jamaica.² I earnestly intreat your Excellency to answer me most particularly on this head, that I may on my part give a final Answer to these complainants and also give an Account of it to the Court of my Master, I also take this opportunity to acquaint your Excellency that I am very well informed three of your English vessels cruize not only upon our Coast but under French Colours, in consequence of which I am indispensably bound to send some Frigate to take them. I have the honor to assure your Excellency that I do every thing on my part to maintain the peace between the Two Crowns, I see with regret it is not the same on yours, because I have complaints made every Day, however I shou'd imagine these transactions were unknown to You but they might be remedied by making an exemplary punishment of those who shall disobey your Orders. I have the honor to be [&c.] 

For the better security of the Effects sent on board the Schooner, Mons^r: Rivierre of M^r. Roux has gone to Jamaica, the proprietors of Effects may entrust him as he is in an honest Man"

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Clark Gayton