Sir,

I received yours of the 19th Ulto, and directed the Papers you wrote for to be Transmitted you; but find upon Inquiry, they are not among any in my Possession now. Colonel Moylan, who used generally to receive & examine the Papers appertaining to the Prizes, being called upon, says that previous to his Departure from Cambridge, he made up all the Prize Papers & put them in such a Channel as he thought most likely to convey them to the different Agents. He supposes they were. He cannot Recollect to whom they were delivered. If they cannot be got, you must try the Legality of the Captures, upon such Evidence as you can collect from the Men who were in the Vessels when they were taken & from other Circumstances

If they were going to Nova Scotia, for the purpose mentioned by the Claimants, I presume it will not be difficult for them to prove it by Witnesses.² I am, Sir [&c.]