at 5 pm. Capt. Tucker asked me when on the Quarter Deck if I wished to [go] to Boston where possibly we should be lying unemployed, or tack about and make for L’Orient whither All our prizes had been ordered—I answered that I should prefer to go to L’Orient—he immediately went down to the Cabin and called all his Officers & proposed to alter his Course—for L’Orient—they all declared in the Affirmative except M^r. Livingston¹ who was anxious to get to his Family in Virginia—but the American Decision “A majority” overruled him, and we proceeded for L’Orient, where we arrived safe July 2^nd.