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with Le Commandant d'ancien de la Batie, and the superior Officers of the Squadron gover[id], has always maintained with myself, and with the English Authorities, Civil, Naval, and Military, has, without doubt, tended to promote the interests, and to consolidate the friendship of respective Countries.
Your app[roaching] departure, M. l'Amiral, is universally regretted in this Colony. I request you to inform the distinguished Admiral les pès, that I hope to establish the same friendly relations with his, as I have enjoyed with yours.
With the assurance of my high consideration, I am, M. l'Amiral, Your Faithful Servant.
(Signed) G. I. Bowen, Governor and Commander-in-Chief