Immediately on the receipt of your Excellencys last note I dispatched my Servt to the Chevalier de Bourgoyng requesting him to send me a copy of the Gazette containing the Capitulation of Ld. Cornwallis. I have this moment his answer in which he informs me, that the only copy the Embassador reserved yesterday, was sent last night to the Consul at Cadiz— I am exceedingly sorry that any circumstance arising from an misapprehension of mine should have deprived your Excellency of this Satisfaction— When I had the honor to receive your first note, I was engaged in Company of the Dutch Secretary and Several Other Visitors, which occasioned the Detention of your Sert a quarter of an hour & the mistake in the Date of my card in answer to that of your Excellency— I saw yesterday your Carriage in the Calle de Atocha, apparently on its way to the Embassador in the Calle de Isabel & this Circumstance & the perswasion that you would pay him an early visit on his arrival in Town Induced me to think you would see the Gazette which I was then on the way to your house to show you—

I met Mr. Tabarrie & informed him that I had this Gazette & that I was carrying it to you, But not expecting to find you at home until near the hour of Dinner, to which I knew you had company Invited & fully perswaded that you would read the Capitulation at the Embassadors whom I had just left, I made no difficulty in obliging Mr Cabarrus and the Ct de Campomanes at the same time, by sending it to the Latter. I have already mentioned the Disposition I finally made of it. Permit me to add that yesterday at Dinner with the Embassador I was so fully convinced of your having been there, that I spoke of it at Table & the Embassador called in the Sevts and reprimanded them severely, for having been denied to you— At five in the afternoon the Gazette was read there in my presence & you were then expected. This Circumstance with others that may happen of a similar nature will induce me in future never to subject myself to similar misapprehensions— I shall have the honor to wait on you in the morning or this Night if you have any commands for Your Excys. Most Humble Sert