Dear Sir

I rec'd your favour by Cap^t Barry with its enclosures for which I thank you &herewith send a packet for Mess^rs Hewes & Smith¹ which I beg you will forward by their express and inform me first Conveyance whether the Committee send them any Money. I shou'd also if agreable to the Committee be glad to see H & S.s letter to them which shall be Returned again if you send it to me

Congress last Fall gave 100 Blank Commissions for Privateers or Letters of Marque to the Commercial Committee to be sent abroad to their agents I beg you will put six of them under a Cover to M^r. John Ross to the care of Mess^rs Sam^l & J. H. Delap in Bourdeaux & put that letter under a Cover to Cap^t Patrick Bany & send it to him at Mess^rs Hewes & Smith by their express. M^r Ross will have opportunity to make use of these Commissions agreable to the designs of Congress and I have promised him they shoud be sent, your complyance will oblige D^r Sir Your Obed^t hble Serv^t.