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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 successf__ 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 ____able to send this a Pilot boat. - This confidentty stated, in a letter from the Eastward that there is a Twenty ___ ships of war derectly from Franc- on the Coast that she had made some ____, and that the said ___ were Five others of the fa__ ____ to follow her destined for our _ast. 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 Jexpect the Secretary of Navy here to day or Tomorrow & am 8 c