[Pages illegible] [undecipherable: haste going 10 ?] By two runners from [undecipherable: Caperlich] I am inform'd that the expe-dition mentioned in the [undecipherable] correspondence with Gov. Gilbet has succeeded in part, they state that a fleet appear'd off the mouth of a [undecipherable: palatchia] and one ship of war sailed up and began to cannon'd the fort of St. [undecipherable] that on the appearance of this force [undecipherable: Buster] from the stores invited the Indians to take all the goods they could carry off and to [undecipherable] themselves, this they did and he and his partizans quit the fort and retreated to Micco-sootie a town of the [undecipherable: Seminoles] in East Florida. The deputation from the nation left me on the 22^d and went down to Challohochi and were to have a meeting of Indians near the Confluence of that river and [undecipherable: Flint] the 4^th of this mo[nth] from whence they will proceed into the nation of Seminoles. I have [undecipherable] had no complaint for five months past against any red charge from our extensive frontier. I have the honour to be very respectfully Y[ou]r your Ob[edien]t [Serv]. The Hon^ble [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [endorsements in margin, undecipherable]