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additional to them of the 22d have been forwarded, and received by you and as no need law as Change of Circumstances known to the President, make it necessary to add to these Yo- will not, if arrived at the Station mentioned, delay there but proceed (as I confidently flatter Myself) under your former Instructions, to act succefsfully and honorably. The last Letter I had the Pleasure to receive from you, as under the date of the 2d Instant, off Sandy Hook, this thought advisable to send this a Pilot boat. - This confidently stated, in a letter from the Eastward that there is a Twenty Gun Ships of war directly from France on the Coast that She had made some ___ises, and that the said there were Five others of the same ____ to follow her, destined for our Post. Captain Ruxtun has received his orders & I flatter Myself will f___ on his Cruising Ground, which is from Cape ____ as far as the Southern Limits of our Coast I expect the Secretary of Navy here to day or Tomorrow & am &c