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verey readyly consented to being exceeding glad to imbrace the oportunity supposing it was something relating to our redemtion, and after having obtained permission from the Gaurd and being loosed from my irons. I walked with him some small distance from the Gaurd house, with my hands fast pinioned behind me and when we was sit down on the ground he told me I might be permitted to send a letter to the chief engineer Mr ?astide? that was then in anapolis fort. on unclear conditions that if the Governour Maskerraine? would release five or six of the nuteral french, that? was then prissonners in the Fort as criminal having harboured for some considerable time, several of General Marains officers that where sent as spies from menus?, to inspect into the situation of anapolis fort and not only harbourd upon?, but whent into the fort dayly and wrought as Labourours for the King, that they might therby be fully acquainted in what capacity