Gentlemen
Being appointed by the Honble The Commissioners of the United States at Paris to receive and dispatch all Expresses coming from and going to america, I have the honour to send you by the Mere Bobie Capt Charles Gluyo de la Cheonaye sundry Letters & packets which will be delivered to you in a leaden Box under my Seal. As the Gentleman who has contracted to furnish these Packet Boats is to provide one every month, I hope in that time to send you another; I therefore beg leave to observe that the one following may bring the answers to the present dispatches, and so on in course. I mention this at the desire of the Gentleman that there may be as little detention as possible, but ·of this you are the best judges, and as in these operations the public Service is the great object, whatever measures are most proper will of course be taken.
If the Vessell arrives in Boston she will come to the address of my Father, if at Philadelphia to Richard Bache Esqr, if in another port I must beg the favour of you to deliver the inclosed Letter to some merchant in whom you have confidence for the Sale of her Cargoe, and the purchase of one in return; I have given the necessary directions as to dispatch that she may be ready to return as soon as you shall please to order.
Exclusive of the Cargo on Accot of the proprietor I have shipped twenty Bales of Broad Cloth &c agreeable to the inclosed Invoice and Bill of Lading, which are to be secured on accot of Congress and disposed of as they shall order. The Invoice expresses only the Number of Bales because I have not the particular accot of their contents, they come to me at different Times and as they arrive here I am to ship them in such ways as circumstances will permit.
I have the honour to be with the greatest Respect Gentlemen [&c.]
Capt [Alexander] Wilson in a Ship from Carolina2 on Accot of the Massachusetts State is safe arrived here with 1250 Casks of Rice
