Hon^bIe Gentlemen

I recv^d your Favour of the 16^th Instant¹ too late to answer it by the return of Post.—

I shall observe your Directions relative to shipping on board the Grammont. I hope she will be able to take all the Cloaths & Hose that remain, but I shall not get a single Case of arms on board & I have at least 300 in the magazine ready to ship.

Inclosed is the acco^t of Tannay, who occasioned the Dolphins Seizure, & the Sentence of the admiralty upon it.²

I beg leave to refer you to my Letter of the 6^th January³ for a State of the Fact. The amount of the matter is that a Congress Vessel1 has been seized & sold to pay a Rascal who had run away with a Prize, drawn £147 Sterlg which he has expended & deserted from the Service. I have the honour to be [&c.]

It gives me the greatest pain to find constant repetitions in M^r Grands Letters that you have not approved my Bills. I beg you will consider the delicacy of a merchants credit & ease me from the anxiety that this delay occasions.