European Theatre from December 6, 1774, to June 26, 1775
You have inclosed Acct Sales for 2 hhds of Tobo recd P Roman nt procds £10.6.11 to yr credt which hope will meet your approbation as they bring you more than the country price last year. The Country Cloth you sent over will be finished stampg in a little time but I do not suppose it will be proper for me to send it over to you while your non importation agreement continues. Having sent out 2... Continue Reading
Inclosed you have Acct Sales for yr 8 hhds Tobo recd P the Friendship, Roman nt procds £66.14.10 to yr credt which from their goodness will I hope induce you to continue yr favrs to me. The sales shd have been sent some time ago had there been any convenient oppy. The price of Tobo here has risen very considerably within this month or six weeks, so that what comes home this year will come to a... Continue Reading
I yesterday recd yr esteem'd favor of the 9th Currt & am much obliged for yr information of the prices of Tobo with you, which are by no means equal to the price here, so that a consignmt of that article to yr market at this time must bring a great loss. From the political prospects of Affairs in Europe & America Tobo must rise still higher. You have inclosed Mr John Finch's Excha on... Continue Reading
I am greatly obliged by yr sevl favrs of Jany 30 Feby 13 Mar 7 & Aprl 13 ー The loss at Stratford is what we must all feel, especially at such times as these, when it would be indelible infamy to ask any favor of such wicked Ministers as rule this Country. A Spanish War is greatly talked of & in my opinion will take place as soon as a blow is struck in America ー will you think me prudent... Continue Reading
I wrote you P last Post to which be pleased to refer, & now inclose you Mr Edwd Linde's order on Mr John Christian Wegener for 2 hhds manufactd Tobo weigng 1084 lbs nt which were shipd to him in Feby last P the Hambro' Commerce, Otto Paul Moller, Master & if they are sold for nt procds of the same. Shou'd the Tobo be deld to you, please to dispose thereof to the best advantage & remit... Continue Reading
As I have no business to write on to you, still I may give you a line to repose on in a hot afternoon in yr cool passage. The Magazine & Papers in closed will furnish some amusement & if you want any more of the Political kind my Br F. L. Lee will furnish you with as much as I know. Taking it for granted that you will send me at least 40 hhds of Tobo this year & besides by yr... Continue Reading
Please to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that I arrived at Madeira, in His Majesty's Ship Portland (with the Pomona Sloop in Company) the 12th Instant; and having now compleatly Watered both Ships; and taken on board a Sufficient Supply of Wine; I shall this Ev'ning proceed on my Voyage to Antigua.
Inclosed I have transmitted, the State and Condition of His Majesty's Ships... Continue Reading
Inclosed you have Accts Sales for yr 6 hhds Tobo recd P the Friendship Roman nt procds £47.1.2 to yr credt, also Sales for 8 hhds of Colo Geo. Lees Estate nt prods £56.4.4 to credt of sd: Este & sales for 4 hhds of our late Brs nt procds £32.17. to his credt These Sales are good ー indeed few of the Shippers in Roman can complain, as his Cargoe averages £7 P hhd, which I fancy hardly any will... Continue Reading
Having little business to write about have chiefly to enquire after your Health & that of yr good Family. The Mags & papers inclosed will give you the political intelligence which cannot be pleasing as our Ministers still continue obdurate agst America & every day expect to hear of an engagem[en]tt in Mass. Bay as they have long ago sent orders to Genl [Thomas] Gage to go to Blows... Continue Reading
I have not recd a letter from you but that from Lawsons Bay. I hope you are not unmindful of the main chance, vizt providing for the dispatch of Brown & Norwood & getting remittances, had you struck for 500 or 100 hhds of Tobo when you first arrived it wd have been lucky at the Aprl price of 25/. I fear a loss, unless no Tobo is made this summer. Romans sales are all sent, his cargoe... Continue Reading
I thank you for yr Lre from Richmond Town which is the only one I recd since Brown arrived. For Heavens sake take care of Brown & Norwood & get them loaded & get what remittances made that you can before the Flame burst out which we expect to hear of every day from N. Engd. The Papers &c sent herewith will show you our sentiments here. The parcel of prints & history of... Continue Reading
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Whereas we have ordered Jno Montagu Esqr (Rear Adml of the Blue & Commander in Chief of His Majts Ships & Vessels employed and to be employed at and about the Island of Newfoundland the Islands of Madelaine & Anticosti and upon the Coast of Labrador from the River St John, to the entrance of Hudsons Straits) to apply to you, if there should be occasion, for a reinforcement... Continue Reading
Yesterday I had the Honor of being chosen Alderman for one of the most respectable Wards in the City of London. This post is for Life, Honorable, & attended wth very little expence. The paper will shew you the rest. The Scotch we understand are buying up all the Tobo in the Country, surely no one will trust them without the Cash, for their bills are dangerous ー Let them get yr property into... Continue Reading
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Having order'd Lieut. [John] Hallum, who commands His Majts Storeship Adventure (by whom you will receive this) to put himself under your command & follow your Orders for his further proceedings; You are hereby required and directed to take him and the said Storeship under your command accordingly, and employ them in such manner as you shall judge best for His Majesty's Service... Continue Reading
The Navy Board having represented to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that you have frequent occasions to order supplies of Stores from Halifax to Boston, and that it will be for His Majesty's Service, to send this Year a supply of Stores for Halifax in His Majesty's Ship the Adventure; and proposed that she be fitted as a Storeship, commanded by a Lieutenant, and established with the... Continue Reading
Yesterday morning some dispatches arrived at Lord Dartmouth's office from General [Thomas] Gage at Boston, brought by a ship arrived at Bristol from that province.1 They were forwarded by a messenger to his Majesty at Kew.
From the Essex Gazette, printed at Salem, in New England.
[Here is inserted the account given by the Essex Gazette of Tuesday, April 25, of the engagment at... Continue Reading
This afternoon a vessel from the Isle of Wight arrived here, the Captain says that a vessel lay at the back of the above island, which came with dispatches from General [Thomas] Gage,2 which they had put on shore that morning; and that she would lie there two or three days before she came up to Spithead; for which reason was not mentioned, nor was anything to be got from the people... Continue Reading
The news from America occasioned a great Stir among us yesterday, by the first report I was afraid the Troops had misbehaved, but upon reading the account from Salem I was Satisfy'd that the Party after having done what they were order'd at Concord, marchd back towards Boston, and possibly may have lost some few men. however the Bostonians are in the right to make the Kings Troops the aggressors... Continue Reading
A report having been spread, and an Account having been printed and published, of a Skirmish between some of the People in the Province of Massachusets Bay and a Detachment of his Majesty's Troops; it is proper to inform the Publick, that no Advices have as yet been received in the American Department of any such Event.
There is reason to believe that there are Dispatches from General [Thomas]... Continue Reading
As a doubt of the authenticity of the account from Salem, touching an engagement between the King's Troops and the Provincials in the Massachusetts Bay, may arise from a paragraph in the [London] Gazette of this evening, I desire to inform all those who wish to see the original affidavits which confirm that account, that they are deposited at the Mansion House with the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor... Continue Reading
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