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Gentn

I have the Pleasure to inform you that by Letters I received yesterday from Paris the Honourable Commissioners have approved of the Choice I made of your house to transact their Bussiness at St Malo & inconsequence of their Instructions I have to request that you will payno Attention to any orders but what come either immediatly from them or through me —

They inform me that they wish to sell the Cutter² provided atolerablepricecan beobtaind if no sale should offer she is to be sent hithertomyAddress I beg to know how much she will fetch and whether she can be soon Sold. . .

Please to furnish Capt Wicks & Nicholson with what Ever they may want keeping Distinct Accts for Each Vessell. . .