Letters to the Council. 525

loir bien donner ordre an porteur de cette Lettre de poursuivre
Sa route sans perdre de terns jusqua Richmond.
J'ai le plaisir d'anoncer a Votre Excellence que les Espagnols
viennent d'envoyer 10,000 Hommes de troupes et environ 12 vais-
seaux de ligue a la havane. Ces forces serout en Etat d'entreprendre
quelquu'expedition importante
J'ai 1'honneur d'Etre avee un respectueux attachement Monsieur
de Votre Excellence Le tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur
Le Cte de la Luzerne

Brown Book
No. 7

[T. Donnellan, Baltimore, to Gov. Lee]

S^r This covers a Copy of Col^o Hen: Hollingsworths Rec^t for
seventy Barrels of Herring (purchased of M^r Johⁿ Hudson) al-
ledging that one half of them are spoiled. When I Rec^d them from
M^r Hudson he declared to me that he had them carefully examined
before he woud pay the person who undertook to cure them &
assured me that they were very good. This was prior to Col.
Stones Letter ordering me to examine them. This morning had
all that remained, opened & found but fifteen Barrels of Shad &
fifteen Barrels of Herring passable, which I send by Capt. Middle-
ton to The Assistant Commissary of Issues at Annapolis, by which
means none remains with me. M^r Hudson is not in Town. When
he comes will acquaint him that he can't have a Settlement untill
Col^l Hollingsworths Report comes to hand.
M^r Will^m Smith informs me that he will not receive any Flour
but what will pass Inspection & as there's reason to apprehend that
a great part of what comes to me is not Merchantable, I beg to be
fully Instructed on that Head.
Rec^d June 23^th 1780, by the Schooner Dolphin, Capt William
Middleton, Seventy Barrels of Herring w^ch from appearance are
one half Spoil'd w* cannot be immediately Examined as Capt.
Middleton wants dispatch, but shall be examin'd and Reported,
hereafter. Recd by H. Hollingsworth D. Q. M. G.

June 26
Red Book
No. 26
Letter
No. 33

[George Washington Head Quarters Ramapaugh to Honble
Dan'l St Thomas Jenifer & Hon'ble Josiah Beall]

Gentlemen I was last Evening honored with yours of the 22^d Ins^t
containing propositions of both Houses for substituting a compleat
additional Battalion enlisted for the War, in lieu of the aid of
Militia required by the Committee of Cooperation in conjunction
with me. The reasons urged by you, in support of this Alteration,
are weighty, and such as, all circumstances considered, I think are
sufficient to induce an acceptance of your offer, provided you can
be upon a certainty of filling and marching the Battalion to the
place of rendezvous by or near the time fixed upon for the junction

Brown Book
No. i
Letter
No. 35
June 27