Gentlemen

We Expect Their will be Shipped to your Address a quantity of Gun Powder, By Messrs Legres Le June & Co Negots a Nante is being the Remains of an Adventure in the Amiable Maria Perre Douvill late Master. we are informed That the Effects weir Order'd to be deliverd Messrs Tardieu & Pennet, by Capt Douvill, if They are not already put into their Hands we desire they may not be delivere[d] them but shipped by the Barer Capt Lewis Thomas on Board the Sloop [blank] to the Address of Messrs. Nicholas Brown & Co Merchant, Providence Colony Rhode Island Capt DouVill was taken by a little Cruiser, Of Four swivell Guns within one Third of a League of the Land where he might have run his Vessell On Shoar and saved all his Valuable Cargo, with the greatest ease,

if the goods should not be come into your possession before Capt Thomas leaves the Cap[e] you will please to retain Them in your Hands till further Order. We are Gentmen [&c.]

[Endorsed] Copy of a Letter to Messrs Plombard et Legris & Co at the Cape by Capt Thomas ー June 1776: Abot Deuviel Affair