Sir

I received the letter dated today with which Your Excellency has honored me. I can only thank you for the information that you were will­ing to Communicate to me concerning the two prizes which must have been disguised as American vessels Bound from St. Eustatius, as well as the report of the one which is Supposedly laden with prohibited Merchandise for North America. I waited on M. de Sartine in the Evening who was in Paris for the last two days; and I arranged with him immediately to have orders dispatched to curb such Infractions, similar to Those which the King has forwarded in the most explicit Manner to all of the Ports and Courts of Admiralty. I beg Your Excel­lency to be convinced of My eagerness to contribute to all That can remove distrust, and to Maintain the harmony and good understand­ing subsisting between the two Nations based upon the Treaties. I have the honor to be [&c.]