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N^o. 27:
My Lord.

I received on the 28^th. Ins^t the Duplicates of your Lordship’s Dispatches N. 5 of the 16^th. and your Circular Letter of the 20^th of last Month, which M^r Walpole has transmitted to me.

The last Advices which I have received from Cadiz acquaint me with Cunninghams having been ordered out of the Port, and of his having in consequence thereof quitted it. He sent in a Prize on the next day supposed to belong to Biddeford,¹ of which I have spoken to M. Florida blanca, who has given Order to have her detained in order that the legal Owners may claim her, and that all proceedings upon this Matter should, in case of doubt, be sent up to the Council of War. He has farther given me assurances that he had given Orders, that no Prize whatever should be admitted into the Harbour.

I hear that the French Consul at Cadiz has received Instructions from M. de Sartine to give his Protection to American Ships. . . .

I have the Honour to be [&c.]