Paris, 6 August 1776
[Extract]
I beg you to send suitable orders to the Geeral Director of the Docks in Nantes so that he will not stand in the way or cause difficulties with regard to the embarkation of War ammunition by M. Penet in Nantes. This Director, by the name of M. de Guerton, is a very honest men, but he needs to be warned because the embarkation is urgent.2
1. AMAE, Correspondence Politique, Angleterre, vol. 517, LC Photocopy.
2. In response to this request M. de Clugny, Controller General of Finance, assured Vergennes that orders were being issued to place no obstacle "in the way of the armament which you are having prepared at Nantes for America." Stevens, ed., Facsimiles, No. 1344.
