Dear Sir,

I'm favour'd with Yours under 25th May the Pacquet and three Letters which accompanied it, came very opportunely, as the navy Board¹ this very Day sends an Express for France,² I will see them put up with ye public Letters. & they will share their Fate, I can't think how Greens³ Letters should miss your Hands, hope you receiv'd them soon after you wrote. I find his Ship belongs to the public & a Bundle Rubbish she is.⁴ it would have been lucky could I have known your Pleasure respecting the Goods, as y^e Clothiers are in immediate Want of a Quantity of Oznabriggs, &c for y^e Troops & it grieves Me that the poor Soldiers should want necessary Covering, when we have it for them, but nothing shall be touch'd till I hear from You.

I shall follow your Instructions relative to y^e Ship Henrietta⁵ & hope to have her ready to obey your Orders. I hope the Next Post will bring Answers to my Letters respecting the Goods which have arriv'd in y^e three Friends⁶—the Gentlemen seem rather to be in a hurry for their Freight which they tell me is to be paid by Bills of Exchange. Nothing new turns up, excepting ye Arrival of a Ship from France, the last Week with Goods from Portsmouth I hope with You that spirited Measures may be pursued in our Naval Department, it's much needed, I wish, with you that you may be restor'd to your pleasant City—⁷ yours &c