Gentn

I Wrote You on the 22d Inst wherein I gave You my Oppinion of the Duke De Charters, & that She was not to be Purchased, I am now to inform You She was Purchased Yesterday by Mr Williams for 70 Thousand livres & a Good bargin for She is well worth the Money, this Ship I am told I am to go out in, and as French Property, I will if You Please give You my Oppinion on that head, of wch You will Judge & Send me Your Orders Accordingly, wch depend shall be Strictly Put in Execution; in the first Place I have about 30 American Officers & Men, I Sure coud ship as many more here, & cou'd Pick up a few at other Place[s] wch coud be sent here to me, those Men with the Assistance of a few French Men wou'd be Sufficient with the Assistance of Captns Wickes & Johnson &c to fight any thing that coud Catch us on this Coast & I think there is no Cruizer on the Coast of America woud dare engage us, & am Sure Should You approve of this Method, & Should have at least Twenty Captns Mates & other American Passengers that woud every Man of them help Fight the Ship in case of Necessity — Gentn this is A fine little Ship Mountg 24 Six Pounders on one deck & eight or ten on her quarter deck, & will be well fitted & it will be a great Pitty to have them French Men only in her, for if that be the case, depend when she comes on the Coast of America, she will be alone, for be Assured they never can keep Compy Across the Western Ocean with Wickes & Johnson, & in that case the first Ship that falls in with her, will make a Prize of her, for they are either too lazey or dont know how, to get away from A Ship that can Sail any ways equal to them, & they have not encouragement to fight A good Battle Suppose them Willing, in Short I think the Ship Much Safer with us than with them, however what Your Opinion is on this Matter I shall think best, & You will Please Send me Your Orders what I shall do with my Officers & Men as I shall Wait to receive Your Ansr to this & then set off Imediately for St Malloe, when two or three Days will Settle the affairs of my little Dolphin I am Gentn [&c.]