beau temps toute la journée, et petit vent de sudsudest. ce matin a huit heures ayant eu connaissance d'un batiment a trois mats armé en guerre. sur le champ j'ay fait embarquer la chaloupe, et fait [indecipherable] le branlebas chacuun a son poste. a dix heures j'ay appareillié. j'ay fait gouverner sur le susdit batiment a onze heure le pilot luy ayant manqué, il a mouillié au dessous de royant.¹ a midy étant assez prés de luy pour le reconnaitre pour insurgent, j'ay envoyé un officier a son bord, a une heure j'ay mouillié auprés de luy. mon canot est revenü a bord avec le capitaine du dit batiment qui est le sieur jean heart commandant la fregate le portsmouth armée de dix huit canons en batterie, quatre sur ses gailliards, et de cent trente hommes d'equipage. a cinq heures, j'ay fait débarquer la chaloupe. a six heures j'ay appareillié ainsi que la fregate insurgente, et apres avoir courü six bordées les vents au sudest nous sommes parvenü a [laide?] du flot a une heure aprés minuit dans la rade du verdun. ou nous avons mouillié par les 10 brasses fond de sable gris. et filé 45 brasses. linsurgent a mouillié a coté de nous.

[Translation]

[Gironde River] Friday 10th [October]

Fine weather all day, and light wind from the southsoutheast. This morning at eight o'clock having had knowledge of a three-masted armed ship, I immediately brought on board the ship's longboat, and had the ship cleared for action, sending each to his station. At ten o'clock I set sail. I steered toward the above-mentioned ship. At eleven o'clock, lacking a pilot, he anchored below Royan.¹ At noon, being close enough to him to recognize that he was an insurgent, I sent an officer on board him. At one o'clock I anchored near him. My boat returned with the captain of the said ship, who is Mr. John Heart, commanding the frigate the Portsmouth, armed with eighteen cannons in broadside, four on the forecastle and quarterdeck, and with a crew of 130. At five o'clock I ordered the longboat away. At six o'clock I set sail, as did the insurgent frigate, and after having tacked six times, the winds to the southeast, we had reached the fleet, at an hour after midnight, in the road of Verdon, where we anchored in 10 fathoms, a bottom of gray sand, and payed out 45 fathoms. The insurgent anchored beside us.