My Lord,

I have had the honor to receive your Lordships dispatch N^o. 9¹ and beg leave in answer to inclose to your Lordship the correspondence which has pass'd between the Marquis De Bouïllé and myself since his arrival to take upon him the Command at Martinique,² by which it will appear to your Lordship that the same conduct has been pursued by him which was begun by his predecessor the Count D'argout, who was removed to the Government of S^t. Domingo a much more honorable as well as profitable Government. in short my Lord it is my Duty to assure your Lordship that notwithstanding all their promises the same practice of allowing the Rebels to bring their prizes into their Ports and selling them publickly as well as suffering them to fit out and Arm in their Ports is continued to as great a degree as ever and, your Lordship will observe in the French Governors letter to me upon that head he only says he has ordered a Number of Piratical Corsairs fitted out and Armed by the French themselves to be disarmed and their people put in Prison—

I must beg leave likewise to observe to your Lordship that the charge he has made against this Island with respect to the Congress Commissions being fabricated here and Sold at Martinique is groundless and founded upon no probability but only done for a political purpose and that the sentiments express'd of it in the gazette which I beg leave to inclose are the sentiments of every body here tho' it was thought advisable in Council to issue the inclosed Proclamation publishing our attachment to His Majestys Government and utter detestation of such Rebellious practices³ I have the honor to be [&c.]