Sir.

Mr [James] Calhoun some Time ago wrote us that Capt [John Thomas] Boucher informed him that one Capt Laurence Sanford of Alexandria a Man of Reputation who was taken by the Roebuck, on board of which he saw the two Goodrich's, who escaped from Baltimore Jail, told him that they effected their Escape by bribing the Jailor and that it cost them 600 £.² We shall be obliged to you to have Captn Sanford's Deposition taken and all Circumstances that his Memory retains inserted to lay a proper Foundation for putting the Jailor in the Goodrich's Place; we need not remark that the more Privacy this is done with, the better. We are &ca