Sir
I beg Leave to inclose your Excellency the Petition of the Committe of Corrispondence of this Town where they set fourth the sutiation of it in a Very Clear Light & Pray Your Excellency would hear and Answer the same, if you in your Great Wisdom think it Necessary.
Those Valuable Prizes brought in here are much Exposed as we have nothing to Defend them with ー Our Harbour is as safe as any can be, where there is water sufficient to bring in such Vessels.
Our Forts & Brest Works, built at the Towns Expence, would not Only Protect the Prizes but the Town if we had Guns and Amunition to put in them Therefore Pray your Excellency would hear the Petition not Only for the Releif of the Town but to Preserve that interest now belonging to the Continent.
And am with the Gratest Respect Your Excellencys [&c.]