Sir, New York 22d August 1785
In the Letter which We had the Honor of addressing to You the 18th Inst., We acknowledged the Receipt of your Excellency's Letter of the 8th, & have now the Satisfaction of inclosing You the proceedings of Congress on the Subject of Capt Stanhope's disrespectful Conduct towards your Excellency. Congress, conceiving that there would be a manifest Impropriety in entering on their public Journals those proceedings, untill their Effect shall be known, have ordered them for the present to be placed on the secret Journals, & at the same Time, to manifest their Abhorrence of Capt Stanhope's Insolence, & their firm Intention to support to the utmost of their Abilities the Dignity of the Governments of the several States, they have ordered a Copy of your Excellency's Letter & Inclosures to the Delegates, with the proceedings of Congress thereon, to be transmitted to each of the Executives for their Information.(1)
We submit to your Excellency's Consideration the Expediency of ordering Depositions to be taken & transmitted without Delay to Mr Adams our Minister at the Court of London, touching the Conduct of Capt Stanhope in exchanging his Ensign as he passed the Castle---;the assaults being made on him by a Sailor who having been a prisoner of Capt Stanhope's during the War, complained of his abuse whilst in

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