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Gentlemen We thank you for the intelligence in your. Letter of the 13th which came in hand this Evening ー the Success of our friends in North Carolina is a great event, & it is a pleasing circumstance to us, that they have not repeated their calls for Gun powder ー it is not in our power to Issue any more from our present Stock ー we have intimated to Capt. Gillon the Scantiness of our Magazine & how pleasing it will be to us if he will not avail himself of our permission to take 50t from that under your care ー he will have the less need now, as we have ordered the Comet and Defence to Convoy his Vessels from your Bar to the edge of Sounding, those two Armed Vessels Sailed late the past afternoon & will probably be in sight of your Shore to Morrow Morning ー we are loth to countermand our ordder altho our necessity almost compels us to do it, but we hope that Capt Gillan's good sense & consideration will Shew that it would have been an unnecessary measure.

We have just received advices of the 12th from Savanna where they had then a respite from action ー the Cherokee & other armed Vessels had returned to Cockspur with about ten Sail of Vessels which after having thrown out about 2000 Barrels of Rice had got under their Cover in back River ー four Vessels with valuable Cargoes were burnt & Seven Seized & detained, four of which are loaded.

By order of the Council of Safety