June 25.  Shifted their ballast, which threw them on their beam ends, and shipped a very heavy sea.  Held a consultation; the result of which was, that seeing they were now driven so far to sea, and the weather continuing still very bad, it was better to steer for Liverpool, their port of destination, though they had not their cargo on board, and no other clearance but that which they took from Baltimore.

June 29.  The first observation they had been able to take N.lat. 38 deg. 13’.

June 30.  Winds begin to be light, but the sea still very heavy.

July 5.  Light winds and a smooth sea for the first time, in lat. 43 deg. 12’.

July 9.  Spoke a French brig, Comte D’Artois, Captain Mieaux, from St. Maloes, in distress for provisions.  Relieved her with three barrels of flour.

Aug. 6.  Thick weather and strong wind.  Made the Land’s End of England.

Aug. 7.  Unable to fetch the land, therefore bore off for Scilly, and came to with both anchors.  Drove, notwithstanding, and obliged to get up the anchors, and put to sea, running southwardly.

Aug. 8.  Made the land of France, but did not know what part.

Here the log-book ends.  At this time they had on board but ten gallons of water, four or five barrels of bread, two or three pounds of candles, no firewood.  Their sails unfit to be trusted to any longer, and all their materials for mending them exhausted by the constant repairs which the violence of the weather had called for.  They therefore took a pilot aboard, who carried them into Pont Duval; but being informed by the captain of a vessel there, that the schooner was too sharp built (as the American vessels mostly are) to lie in that port, they put out immediately, and the next morning the pilot brought them to anchor in the road of the Isle de Bas.  Asquith went immediately to Roscaff, protested at the admiralty the true state of his case, and reported his vessel and cargo at the custom-house.  In making the report of his vessel, he stated her as of twenty-one tons, according to his register.  The officer informed him that if she was no larger, she would be confiscated by an edict, which forbids all vessels, under thirty tons, to approach the coast.  He told the officer what was the real truth as to his register and his bill of sale, and was permitted to report her according to the latter.  He paid the usual fees of ten livres and seven sols, and obtained a clearance.  Notwithstanding this, he was soon visited by other persons, whom he supposes to have been commis of the Fermes, who seized his vessel, carried her to the pier, and confined the crew to the vessel and half the pier, putting centinels over them.  They brought a guager, who measured only her hold and part of her steerage, allowing nothing for the cockpit, cabin, forecastle, and above one half of the steerage, which is almost half the vessel, and thus made her contents (if that had been of any importance) much below the truth.