Volume 9
I lost no Time in executing the important Orders transmitted to me in Your Lordship's Letter No 38, which I received yesterday Morning. I executed them in the following Manner. By way of Introduction, I mentioned to M. de Vergennes, the Information Mr [Andrew] Frazer had at my Desire given the Commander at Dunkirk with regard to the Cutter arming there, and added, that I knew the Commandant by... Continue Reading
Date: 11 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having laid before My Lords Commissrs of the Admty your Letter of the 9th Instant, desiring to know, as the Betsey Sloop, laden with Provisions, for the supply of His Majesty's Stores at Plymouth, was taken on the 2d Inst off the Boult, by an American Privateer, whether you should permit any Vessels lading with Provisions or Victualling Stores to proceed from London to Portsmo or Plymo or from... Continue Reading
Date: 12 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
This morning an American privateer of 18 guns anchored off this place, and soon after sent a boat on shore with eight men and an officer, which alarmed our country people; but our fears were soon dispelled on their landing, when they assured us they came in a peaceable manner, with money to get some fresh provisions, for they did not want to distress the poor; accordingly we got them such as the... Continue Reading
Date: 12 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I receiv'd your Favour of the 6th Inst. P. Capt. Burnell, and am much oblig'd by the Civilities you have shown him. The Prize cannot, as you observe, be sold & delivered in your Port, it being contrary to Treaties, & to Ordinances made in Conformity to those Treaties; But I suppose it may be done in the Road without the Port, or in some convenient Place on the Coast, where the Business... Continue Reading
Date: 12 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Marlborough, a letter of marque, Capt. Dawson, is come into this port, after being out on a cruize, and has brought in with her a prize, which she took, called the Three Brothers, Bentley, from Charles-Town, South Carolina, bound to Bilboa, with 98 barrels, and 46 half barrels of rice, and several casks of indigo, the Captain of which, finding himself taken, attempted to kill Capt. Dawson,... Continue Reading
Date: 13 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Lord Viscount Weymouth, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State having transmitted to us a Copy of a Letter from the Lord Lieut of Ireland, inclosing one from the Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin, requesting on the part of the Merchants of that City, that the Linnen Ships of that Kingdom may be convoyed as far as the Isle of White [Wight]; You are therefore, hereby requested and... Continue Reading
Date: 13 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have communicated to my Lords Commissrs of the Admty your Letter of the 10th Inst informing them of the Torbay being returned to Plymouth from a Cruize, also that the Nancy, the Ocean's Tender from Fowey, with two of the Rebel Prisoners, who made their Escape from the Blenheim; the George and Molly Tender, with thirteen newraised Men, and the Sherborne Cutter, are arrived at Plymouth; And that... Continue Reading
Date: 13 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
We are still without any news from America, except what we get by the way of England. . . . I believe a certain brig from a place called Rotterdam has fallen into the hands of the chosen people, for one of my countrymen crossed the Atlantic in a small vessel of about 20 tons on purpose to take her; at least he informs me that he had carried into Cherbourg a brig laden with about two hundred... Continue Reading
Date: 13 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Please to inform their Lordships after Post last Night, the Ship Tartar Adam Goold Master belonging to Liverpool, arrived from the West Indies, and in her Passage, in the Lattitude of 31°:85' N. 2 Degrees to the Eastward of Bermudas he took a Snow named the Mercury Pierre Tephaigne Master, a french Man, from some Port near Boston, Bound to Dunkirk, loaded chiefly with Lumber, a small Quantity of... Continue Reading
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for Lord George Germain's information that since my Letter to You of the 12th instant respecting the India Ship lately purchased to serve as a Storeship, their Lordships have learnt from the Navy Board that it was their intention to send in her Twenty thousand Beds, which Lord Howe has represented to them to be much wanted... Continue Reading
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The master of a fishing smack arrived last night from Dunkirk and acquainted me, that he saw Cunningham [Conyngham] and his crew at large on Thursday last [June 12], and they were proving carriage guns, in order to put on board a large cutter of 130 tons burthen; that she was to be navigated by French sailors to Havre de Grace; and that Cunningham and the crew were going there over land, in order... Continue Reading
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
You will be pleased to acquaint my Lords Commissrs of the Admty, that on the 11th Instt I received a Letter from the Collector & Comptroiler of His Majs Customs at Dover, informing me that there was a Brig at Dunkirk taking on board Ordnance Cannon, Shells, Shott, and Intrenching Tools of all Sorts and was supposed to be bound to America, I immediately sailed with His Majesty's Cutter under... Continue Reading
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Briggenteen Rising States taken the 15th of April 1777 by the Terrible of 74 Guns
Committed to Forton Prison the 14th of June 1777 the first Prisoners in this Place
Men's Names
Ship & Station
Run Dead &c
James Thopson
Capt.
Run
Jos Lunt
Lieut
Henry Fritze
Capt Mar
Run
Saml Prichet [Prichard]
Lieut Mar
Run
Thos Cummins
Boatswn
Run
Morris Geghaen
Masts mate
Run... Continue Reading
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[1777. June] 8. Sunday; and there has been a great number of persons at the gate to see us, who gave in, for our relief, several shillings.2
9. Rainy weather, so that we keep house all day, except when we go out to draw our provisions.
10. There have about ten or twelve prisoners come from the ships to prison to-day. Having so lately had the small-pox, and being so long physiced... Continue Reading
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I do myself the honor to acquaint your Lordship that the American Privateers I had the honor to mention in my last sent by way of France, being fitted at Breha upon the Coast of Britany and another Cruizing a few Leagues to the Westward of Guernsey, have evidently fixed their Station to watch Vessels coming from or going to the Westward; and to intercept the Trade of these Islands to and from... Continue Reading
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
A Note, Sir, delivered to M. le Comte de Vergennes by the English ambassador, declares that a Vessel, belonging to Mr. Prejent of Martinique and commanded by a man named Ord, the Only American who was on board, took on March 18th last the English Ship the Venus commanded by Captain Sharpe.2 It is further discovered that on the 21st of the same month the Ship was carried into a Bay a... Continue Reading
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Two of the American vessels which have been brought into England by their crews, were lately condemned in the Court of Admiralty as prizes to the King; and his Majesty, out of his Royal bounty, in order to reward those brave fellows loyalty and love of old England, has ordered two thirds of the value of each ship and cargo, which amounts to a very considerable sum, to be divided among the crew;... Continue Reading
Date: 16 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
When the time of my Cruise had expired, the Wind being Contrary to my return, I haul'd away to the Westward in hopes of a favourable Slaunt and on the 4th of June Latd 46.43 Ushant E N E Distce 82 Leagues, we fell in with, and took, the Bell—Savage Brig (Late Yorrick) an American, from So Carolina, bound to Nantz or the first port in France in the Bay of Bisca, Loaded wth Rice Indigo Deer Skins... Continue Reading
Date: 16 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The following are the Particulars of the Artifice made Use of to carry off Captain John Brunel [Burnell], of the Montgomery Privateer, who came in here with a Prize, to the Captain of which the American behaved with unlimited Generosity, and there seemed to be the strictest Friendship between them, which has made every Body exceedingly angry with the Treatment he met with. On Sunday the 15th of... Continue Reading
Date: 16 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
It may be agreeable to be informed that since Cunningham, master of the pretended Privateer & his Crew have been released out of Prison, they are employed in fitting out another Privateer, which had been provided before, & is likely to be soon ready. She is a large Cutter, on which they have raised Ports for 20 Carriage Guns which she will mount besides Swivels, & as many men as they... Continue Reading
Date: 17 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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