[Capt Talbot] No. War Departm^t April 17. 1795. I have rec^d yours of the 12^th. I am very the [undecipherable] of knowledge an by M^r Faucets [undecipherable] are so bad. A copy of the contract is enclosed. The moulds for the shot were assuredly made with great exactness and set in the knowledge of a uniform shape & exactly square. The dimensions full are noted in the inclosed Statement. M^r Faucet himself has informed me in the Models in Philadelphia. Seeing the execution is so bad I pray you to make a critical examination of the whole & to report the result me. diately. --- Copy of a letter from M^r Humphreys to the Secretary of War. Sir. April 18. 1795. The size of the first moulds that were made for the [undecipherable] but not register but being directed to make others I went to the [undecipherable] took the size of them that were cast by the mould Supposed first made. Their dimensions are as follows Two feet, six inches long on one side & two & a half inches wide. Two feet, two & ¾ in^t on another & & five & one quarter in^t & Dep. four inches & three nighths of an inch. The role of each end in the flat and at opposite [undecipherable]. [signed] Joshua Humphreys --- [Touch Francis Esp] Sir War Office April 22. 1795. By a letter of the 19^th instant from Captain [undecipherable] at Baltimore to M^r Humphreys it appears that he has met there with a M^r [undecipherable] an Englishman who