P. S. Two vessels with stores are just despatched from different ports. Forward them, my Dear Sir, immediately to our dear country. Captains Wickes, Johnson, and Nicholson, have just destroyed sixteen vessels on the English and Irish coast. I am despatching Conyngham from hence on the same business in a privateer. I begin to think war unavoidable.
W. C.
Dunkirk, July 6th.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Mr Carmichael's letters from Berlin, if he ever wrote any, are missing.
TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.
Yorktown, June 17th, 1778.
Sir,
Since my arrival here, I have been informed of the honor conferred on me by Congress, in being appointed Secretary to the Commissioners at the Court of France, an honor which greatly overpays the feeble efforts of my zeal, and is more than I could expect, considering the well founded pretensions of others to their notice.