[Page 1 of this document is marked as illegible by the archive: "Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically."] (39) ( M^r. [undecipherable] at the War Office. Dear Sir Agreeably to your request I beg you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] accounts of the Manner and [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the Frigate for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Proper [undecipherable] of a Frigate of 36 [undecipherable]. I beg you to inform the Secretary of [undecipherable] that I am under Some apprehensions that the [undecipherable] will not receive the [undecipherable] now [undecipherable], because she is [undecipherable] too [undecipherable]. M^r. [undecipherable] ought to be [undecipherable] as Competent as [undecipherable] in every [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that reason, I have received two men [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] well as it is [undecipherable] for every other Nation to Pay the [undecipherable] little Compliments on Similar occasions; for [undecipherable], he has [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] a Cruiser of [undecipherable] Guns, but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] presented the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Port of the [undecipherable] a Sloop of War of 24 Guns when the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] only [undecipherable] a Brig of 18 Guns; much [undecipherable] and generally of Men [undecipherable]. There is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I have done my duty in [undecipherable] our Government, and they of course will not [undecipherable] think Proper, tho' it some times happens that by not placing sufficient Confidence in proper [undecipherable], and too much [undecipherable] [undecipherable], that they are [undecipherable], [undecipherable] the Country is thereby [undecipherable]. If this will be the case with the [undecipherable: Algerine] Business time only will [undecipherable]. I am Sir Your [undecipherable] Serv^t [undecipherable] June 1^st 1797. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]