Volume 9
Whereas we have received Information that a Rebel Privatier from Boston called the [American] Tartar commanded by John Grimes mounting 24. Guns and having on board about 100. Men attacked and took on the 28th ult. about 16 or 17. Leagues E.N.E. of the Naze of Norway a Ship belonging to Whitby called the Thomas and Elizabeth bound from Petersburg to Leith with Deals & Iron, which they after... Continue Reading
Date: 6 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
When I went to M de Vergennes I told Him, that I must beg his particular Attention, as what I had to say was by Express order from My Court.
The King my Master, who received with real Satisfaction the Solemn Assurances conveyed, first thro' me, and repeated by the french Ambassador, sees with Concern and Surprize; that Notwithstanding those Assurances, Your Orders were Scarce arrived, when they... Continue Reading
Date: 6 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
In your letter of the 1st of this month, Sir, you mentioned that the Anglo-American Privateer General Wisslin [General Mifflin], Capt. William Day, entered the roads of Port Louis, under the pretext of taking in provisions and water, and that you were preparing to send her an order to get underway within 24 hours; there is nothing in the action which you have taken regarding her, but what... Continue Reading
Date: 6 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[1777. August] 6 Wednesday: Fair pleast Weather Early AM Saw the Man of War in Chace — She continued Chace all Day. — At 7 Saw a Sail a Head & at 8 came up & took her. She was a Brig from Cork in Ballast — Gave her to the Prisoners & Sent her away. — Soon after Saw another Sail and Stood for her, came up & took her being a fine Brig from Cork for Lisbon Laden with Butter &... Continue Reading
Date: 6 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . The Letter of Marque the King of Spain Capt: James Hamilton now in Ferrol is narrowly watched by two Rebel Privateers that have been seen off that Harbour several Days together waiting for his Departure, He might have sold the Prize here to very great Advantage, but she will probably be retaken from him before he reaches England, where he is obliged to carry her for to be condemned.2... Continue Reading
Date: 6 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
August 1777
Scilly No16Wt 18 Ls Ushant So50Et Dist 20 Leagues
Wednesday 6th
at 4 AM saw one Sail to the Southward, made Sail and Chac'd, at Noon the Chace 3 Leagues a Head —
Light Winds & fine Wear, PM Continued in Chace of a Brig, at 5 perceiv'd that the Chace gain'd upon us which we ascribe to her Oars, at 7 the Chace Hull down,
Thursday 7th
AM as the day broke saw a Sail... Continue Reading
Date: 7 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . We are now all ready & Clear for Sailing, only wait your Orders, our powder is Stop'd in the Magazine and will not be dilever'd without a positive Order from the Minester for that purpose — Capt Johnson is all ready and Clear to Sail only Waits your Orders & leave to depart from the Port of Morlaix — the Bearer of this is a Young Gentleman of good Family & Charactor & is... Continue Reading
Date: 7 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
August 1777
Thursday 7th
Lizard N:57ºEt 113 Lgs
at 6 AM saw a Sail to the Etward, Tkd &made Sail after her, at 8 fired 2 Shot, brought her too, a Swede Snow from St Ubes for Stockholm, saw another sail to the Eastwd, at 10 came up with a Ship shortned Sail & brought too, in sight another large Ship, both of which we took to be Dutch Et Indiamen, a brig appearing in sight did not... Continue Reading
Date: 7 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The following is the copy of a letter from Capt. Holland, in Sarah Colburn, bound to Jamaic[a] from this port.1
At Sea, ship Sarah Goulburn, lat 44.0. N. long. 39.00. W. 19th July, 1777.
Gentlemen,
I congratulate you upon a prize I have taken, this day, named the Sally, Thomas Tracy, master, from Charles Town, South Carolina, bound to Nantz, loaded with 470 whole, and 120 half, barrels... Continue Reading
Date: 8 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . In addition to my No 48, I am further to signify to Your Excellency His Majesty's Commands, on the following points.
It is indispensably necessary that the Privateers said to be sequestrated in the ports of France, should be sent from thence, but without the convoy of a man of War; as Such a measure would be the most public avowal of the protection they have already clandestinely given to... Continue Reading
Date: 8 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[Extract]
No 19 /
. . . The project of M. de Florida Blanca so confidentially communicated to Your Excellency, is so little consonant to the clandestine succours given to the Rebels in America; that He must have in view to deceive this Court, and mislead Your Excellency. You received the communication very properly; and You will be enabled on this ground, to press with more earnestness that a... Continue Reading
Date: 8 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Bristol
Whitehaven
Liverpool
Leith
Glasgow
Newcastle
Hull &
Yarmouth
My Lords Commissioners of the Admty having communicated to you upon your late Attendance at this Office, the expediency of hyring a Number of armed Ships or Vessels to be employed as Coasting Convoys for the protection of the Trade of the great Trading Towns of this Kingdom; I have it in command from their Lordships to... Continue Reading
Date: 9 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I desire you will acquaint My Lords Commissioners of the Admty, that early on Wednesday Morning, the 6th instant, being to the Southward of Scilly eight or ten Leagues, in His Majesty's Ship under my Command, we fell in with a Rebel Privateer Brig, and chac'd her till Thursday Morning at nine, when the People in hopes of escaping Captivity, run her close in with Hellston Beach, and got ashore,... Continue Reading
Date: 10 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The present serves to convey to you a few Newspapers which I have regularly sent to me from London.
The Honble Commissioners do not know of this Opportunity or I should no doubt have some Dispatches to forward. I hope however soon to have a packet Boat to fit out.
The public talk here is that there will soon be a War, but we have had so much talk to so little purpose that it is not believed by... Continue Reading
Date: 10 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
having a small sloop call'd the Mongomery Robt Willis Master, that I propose to send back to America Arm'd, not having a Commission for her which I apprehend lays in your power to grant. I take the Liberty to make application to you for One. I propose her to mount Six four pounders to carry thirty Men and otherways properly equipt. I am not determin'd if I shall employ the same master back, it... Continue Reading
Date: 10 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I yesterday boarded a sloop from North Uist, with Kelp, who had on board two men belonging to the brig Venus, of Liverpool, Weeks, Master, from Greenland, with one fish, who was taken on Sunday the 3d instant, within six or seven leagues of the Island of Barra, by an American Rebel privateer cutter, of 16 four pounders, double fortified, and as many swivels, manned with 100 men, some English,... Continue Reading
Date: 11 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The following Deposition was this Morning received by the Lord Prevost, sent by Express from the Earl of Fife at Duff House, Bamff:
Capt. [J.] Walker, of the Charming Jenny [Charming Nelly], from Memel to Workington, made an Attestation before Wm. Rose, Esq., a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bamff, on the 8th instant, that he had been taken about the Middle of last Month by the [American... Continue Reading
Date: 11 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I received by Captn [William] Hay, & having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the. 19th May informing them of your having sent to England in the Alarm the Crew of the General Montgomery American Privatier, & transmitting a List of their Names, and descriptions where they were born;2 And I am commanded to acquaint you, that their Lordships approve of... Continue Reading
Date: 11 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Court of Copenhagen has published a Proclamation, forbidding the American Privateers from entering their Ports, except in Case of Distress, and then to depart in twenty-four Hours after.
The Commerce, M'Call, from Florida to Antigua, is taken within six Leagues of that Island by a Privateer of 10 Guns and 120 Men, only one of the Crew was an American, all the Rest were French.
The Isis, Capt... Continue Reading
Date: 11 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The following is a copy of a letter to the Collector and Comptroller of the Custom-house in Newcastle, received by Tuesday's post.
Gentlemen,
Yesterday afternoon Captain George Corney, of the Nautilus, of Liverpool, with part of his crew, were put on shore here, who came to this office and informed us, that on the 20th of July last, about five o'clock in the afternoon, when about five or six... Continue Reading
Date: 11 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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