Gentlemen

We are honoured with yours of the 21^st Ult^o. ⅌ Express, inclosing 9 packages, & some letters, Inclosed to our care. We are now to inform you that in Consequence of your directions, & what we Suppose to be your design; We immediatly dispatched the Second Packett we were Some time past ordered by the Hon^ble. Marine Committee to provide. Cap^t. John Ayres of the Navy, readily Undertook to Execute your Instructions, & to deliver in person, the Packages you directed to be first Sent. We could wish M^r Lovell² had been more Explicit, as we are Utterly at a loss to determine how to Conduct with regard to the remainder, not having Orders to provide any other Vessell, & by the Tenor of his Letter it don't Seem to be your Intention they should go by a Private Vessell, on board which we have no Officer—

We shall Embrace the two Earliest Oppertunitys of forwarding those to M^r Bingham.³ We hope to have One this week. We wish for your more particular directions with regard to those now remaining in our hands for France, which will be Executed with the Greatest care & assiduity—I am Gent^n. with Great respect [&c.]