Copy of a letter from Capt. John Ford to 'Mr Printer' [the printer of a Barbados paper?], requesting him to insert the succeeding text into his newspaper, denouncing a letter purportedly from an officer on board the 'Nymphe' reporting on action against the French fleet on 5 September 1781, which letter had been reproduced in certain London newspapers.

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Mr: Printer I beg you will please to insert the following paragraph in your paper and you will oblige Your Humble Servant John Ford captain of the Nymphe Whereas there appears in the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser of Nov: 13. 1781 a letter dated Nymphe at Sea off the Chesapeak September the 14th 1781 said to be wrote by an Officer of the said Ship to his relation in London relative to the action with the French fleet on the 5th of September 1781 off the Chesapeak, and containing a variety of unjust remarks and reflections thereon, I do in consequence thereof, think fit to declare, that I have conferred with the several Officers of the ship on that subject, who have declared to me, on their honor, and are ready to confirm the same by oath that no such Letter was ever wrote on board the Nymphe, and I do also assert (in my own opinion) from an infinity of concurring circumstances, that the said letter is an arrant, notorious, and iniquitous counterfeit, and all which must appear distinctly evident to every reader who will pay the smallest attention to the substance and circumstances of the letter, detailing events, transactions, and judicious conduct of Admiral Graves when the Nymphe was in the West Indies under the Command [[catchword]] of [[/catchword]]