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Sir I have had the Honour to receive your answer to my Remonstrance. I beg leave to express to your Excellency the Surprize I feel in being inform'd that the Battery fired in Consequence of my Chasing a schooner which was unknown, permit me to assure your Excellency that the Fact has been represented, 2 that instead of chacing towards the shore I was at that instant standing from the land and in pursuit of the American Rebell and I have not even the Shadow of a Doubt but that I should in a very small space of time have brought him into the Road of St Pierres as my undoubted Prize. Icannot help under these circumstances declaring to your Excellency that Iconsider the Shott which were fired by the Battery to be the only means by which he has escaped. It is my duty to express thus much, as well as to promise your Excellency, that I shall with propriety be cautious not to offend the Rights of your Nation

I shall assuredly transmit to Vice Admiral Young the exact particulars relative to the past Circumstances and am happy in having an opportunity of assuring your Excellency of the Respect with which I am Your Excellency's [&c.]