Dr. Franklin is at Paris, and certainly came from the Congress for the Purposes easier guessed at than explained.
It is said that Lord Weymouth, by a proper and spirited Memorial, demanded the Restitution of the Ship Vine of Hull, which was laden at Charant (a French Port near Rochefort) with Brandy, Lintseed, &c. for Hull, and was taken by the American Privateer which brought Dr. Franklin. And it is said, that the French Court, so far from complying with this Request, have permitted the Ship and Cargo to be publicly sold at Nantz. Is not this acknowledging the American Privateer's Commission? And is not that an Acknowledgment of the Independency of America?