Sir

I this evening received your letter to Capt^n: Onslow, of the 25^th. instant,¹ who left this the 14^th, and carried with him to New York, all the officers and Crew of the Virginia you left behind;—having waited, (as he informed me,) more than a reasonable time for an answer, to his letters, relative to a general exchange of them. 

M^r: Burney² has brought fourteen people, to be exchanged, and as we have but two prisoners at present on board, the remaining twelve, I give a receipt for, and shall write to New York, to have that number of your people Returned immediately, which no doubt will be done.—The others you mention to be coming in another Flag, their number shall be accounted for in like manner.—the sooner you please to send them the better, as I shall have an oppertunity of transmitting the accounts to New York.—You refer me to M^r: Burney for the method of Exchange, and this is fixed upon, and he can inform you of the mode, of their returning.—He mentioned those he most wished to have back, and will give your their names. I am [&c.]