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Barfleur off dominique 6 am April 0th. 1782 dear Sir You do me great honor in holding my judgement in that estimation, as to request my sentiments in the present critical moment, which I will give with that sincerity and candour, I have always prided myself to do; whenever you have condescended to express a wish to know them; and if I have appeared at anytime to have improperly obtruded them, I trust you will believe that zeal alone for the service of my king & country, led me to do it. DeGrasse will certainly avoid you all he can and when you do not know where he is, you will in my humble opinion be perfectly right to push for the Enemy's appointed Rendezvous, but while you can keep him in sight, or know that he is [[underline]] not [[/underline]] gone to [[underline]] Leeward [[/underline]], I think you can on no account quit him; and will I imagine keep your fleet [[underline]] collected [[/underline]] as much as possible, and avail yourself of every opportunity of getting to windward. The ships the Enemy's fleet had under Convoy anchored [[catchword]] at [[/catchword]]
