Versailles, 30 December 1775
I have just received, Sir, the letter with which you honored me on the 28th of this month in order to forward me the information which the English Ambassador gave you with regard to the arrival in Marseille of three vessels from Northern America, whose cargoes of wheat their Captains intended to exchange for war ammumtion. I hasten to inform you that I have just renewed in Marseille the most precise orders so as to forbid the loading of arms and war ammunition destined for Northern America either on English vessels or on vessels of any other nation in accordance with His Majesty's decision which you have conveyed to me.
I have the honor to be with very sincere attachment, Sir [&c.]
De Sartine
1. AMAE, Correspondance Politique, Angleterre, vol. 513, LC Photocopy.