Sir:
By opportunity of Doctor Pasteur, I beg leave to trouble your Excellency for a Commission, for a letter of mark for the Sloop Betsey, Capt. Ishol Tinker; but as the number of guns and men are not at this time ascertained, if you could indulge us so far as to leave those two articles blank I will fill them up myself and execute the bonds agreeable thereto, which shall be lodged with
Mr. Cogdell, or sent up to Kingston, whichever you will please to direct.