Captain [John] Frazier deliverd me your favor of the 21st instant-I have Laid it & the Captains petition before his Excellency, who has no objection to the gentlemen belonging to the Susanna 2 Seeking an oppertunity to return home which he will give them Liberty to do, upon their giving their parole not to act inimical to America during the present Contest The Captain Sets forth, that he has been plunderd of his private property to the amount of £63.19.9 Stg.: this is a Circumstance, which gives great dissatisfaction to the General, it has been his positive orders to the Commanders of those armed vessels, to guard against this So ignominious behav1our of the people on board their vessels, the only remedy at present that I can think of is, to get the Sufferers attestation of their Loss, Let them be paid, the Captains must find out who the plundered were, & beside Such punishment as is due for their Crimes, the Sum paid Must be deducted from their Share of the prize ー if they Cannot fix upon the defalters, it must become a Charge against the one third given to the Captors by the Continent.