The report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the conduct of the Committee of Safety, &c. being again read was approved of, and is as follows, viz.

Your Committee beg leave to report, that they have examined into the conduct of the Committee of Safety, respecting the whole of their Proceedings, and particularly the supplies of powder and ammunition sent on board the gallies, before and at the time of their engagements with the Roebuck and Liverpool men of war; and having heard their allegations and proofs, are of opinion, that it appears, from incontestable evidence, that, before the first engagement, the gallies were supplied with thirty-three rounds of powder each, at the proportion of one third weight of powder to the ball; that, during the said first engagement, they received in cartridges and two kegs of loose powder, the quantity of eight rounds more beyond their first stock, and there was then ready to be delivered, and as supposed delivered to them, immediately after the first engagement, while the Roebuck lay a ground, the quantity of eleven rounds each, besides three hundred weight sent from Wilmington, and what remainded unexpended in the engagement. That on the day of the second engagement, each galley had sixty-seven rounds of powder, including the supplies sent th[e)m, in addition to what remained on hand, after the first day's engagement. Your Committee are farther of opinion, that, during both the engagements, the gallies were sufficiently supplied with all other kinds of necessary Ammunition; that their not having taken the Roebuck, was not owing to any deficiency in the above articles, and that the conduct of the Committee of Safety, on that occasion, evidenced the greatest Zeal and attention to the public service.²