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An express came here yesterday, informing that several vessels, particularly two belonging to this place, have been taken by provincial privateers, so stationed in the mouth of the river, that nothing can pass them. Such as attempt to run, they sink them. The master and crew of one of the vessels that was taken the other day have come to town; they were allowed to come on shore, but their cargoes...
Date: 13 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I received your favour of the 4th Instant ordering me to Send our Prizes to the Address of Mr Williams at Nants & give orders to our Prize Masters Accordingly this order will be Chearfully comply'd with by me — I should be very glad to know my future distination & whether I am to go out as Soon as fitted for Sea, as I am told the Minesters has ordered me out of Port I shall get my guns on...
Date: 13 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have received and read to my Lords Commissrs of the Admiralty your Letter of this date enclosing by Lord Weymouth's direction a Copy of a Letter his Lordship had received from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with an Inclosure relative to another Privatier which had appear'd in the Irish Channel; 2 And in return I am commanded to acquaint you for Lord Weymouth's information, that their Lordships...
Date: 14 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The inhabitants of this town met on Monday last [July 7], in consequence of advertisements read out in the churches on Sunday, and enrolled themselves to carry arms in defence of the town. Accordingly they assembled on Tuesday with their arms and accoutrements, and are to continue embodied till the town is out of danger from the American privateers, who at present infest the West coast.
Date: 15 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I believe during no Time last War were the People on this Coast half so frightened as they have been lately on the Appearance of the American Privateers. An Express was sent off to our Lord Lieutenant, Sir James Lowther, to call out the Militia for the Defence of the Coast, as they were apprehensive the Americans would land; to which Sir James sent Word that he would immediately call out the...
Date: 15 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Our Lord Mayor has been very anxious for the preservation of the Shipping and Commerce of this City, and has frequently applied by letter and in person to his Excellency, the Lord Lieutenant, to use his interest with the Lords of the Admiralty, for obtaining Ships of Force to be sent to our Port, to protect the vessels trading from this Harbour. The Lord Mayor's applications have been always...
Date: 15 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having received a Letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland inclosing one from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and another to Him from Chester relative to Rebel Privateers, and requesting that the Convoy which goes from Dublin to Chester may be directed to take under their Protection upon their return to Dublin the Vessels from Chester, I inclose to your Lordships copies thereof, that you may give...
Date: 15 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Messrs Mason and Jones Contractors for supplying Provisions to the Troops in East Florida having desired that for the Safety of their Ships carryg such Provisions, they may go to New York with the Convoys so frequently going there; and upon their Arrival have other Convoy directed to see them safe to Saint Augustine: I am commanded to acquaint your Lordsp that the Lords Commissioners of His...
Date: 15 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I beg leave to acquaint Your Lordship that the Speedwell Sloop & Wells continue still in the Road, but propose, I believe, returning to the Downs on friday next, in order to know if the Commanding Officer of His Majtys Ships there has received any orders concerning their future destination.
I have likewise the honour to inform Your Lordship that, on the 13th Inst, the Commandant of the Marine...
Date: 15 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Yesterday a Messenger was dispatched from the Earl of Suffolk's office to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with orders to delay the sailing of all the shipping in the port of Dublin till our letter of marque cruizers arrived there to convoy their outward-bound ships for the security of their trade, and the same orders to be sent off by his Excellency to the northern ports in Ireland on the same...
Date: 16 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Lord North — The intelligence given by Mr Wentworth if founded is very material, and is certainly very agreable; 2 if timidity actuates the French Court to delay taking an open hostile part, some good Success in North America is likely to make Her the more cautiously avoid taking up a losing game; whatever may be the real motives of this determination, the delaying if possible having...
Date: 16 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
You can not forget, Gentlemen, that in the first Conversation I had with both of you, I assured you that you should enjoy in France for Your selves all the Security and Comforts which we showed to foreigners, and for your navigation and Commerce all the facilities that would be compatible with the exact observance of our Treaties with England, which the King's principles would induce him...
Date: 16 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Articles agreed to between the United States of America, and the Officers, Seamen, Marines, and Others, Serving on Board the Ships and Vessels of the said States.
We, whose Hands and Marks are hereunto set and subscribed, being Officers, Seamen, Marines, &c. do, and each of us doth agree to and with Henry Johnson Commander of the good Brig called the Lexington belonging to the United States...
Date: 16 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having laid before my Lords Commissrs of the Admiralty your Letter of this date, enclosing Copy of an Affidavit made by Abram Russell, late Master of the Sloop James, relative to her and other Vessels having been taken by the Mifflin Privatier off the Mull of Cantire &ca,2 I am commanded to acquaint you that their Lordships having received the same intelligence thro' various other...
Date: 17 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . the N England Provinces have sent on a secret Expedition, five frigates — 2, of 32 Guns, 2, of 28 &1 — of 22. with 12 other Hired Privaticrs for 28 days — Mounting from 12 to 18 Guns.2 Some think Nfound Land, others Halifax or the Transports from England to be the Object. . . .
Date: 17 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Passing the other night through a Coffee-house, I overheard a conversation on the present posture of affairs, and as usual the members were divided, so that the debate was pretty equally contested, until a friend to the Americans asked the ministerialists, whether our navy was not at present in as indifferent a state, and as unfit for war, as when Hawke was first lord of the admiralty? This...
Date: 17 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
We are very sensible of the Protection afforded to us and to our Commerce since our Residence in this Kingdom, agreeable to the Goodness of the Kings gracious Intentions, and to the Law of Nations; and it gives us real & great Concern when any Vessels of War appertaining to America, either thro' Ignorance or Inattention, do any thing that may offend his Majesty in the smallest Degree. The...
Date: 17 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . .Mr Deane was apply'd to Yestaday by a firm friend to America for a Blank Commission I mean to say a Commission thats only Signed & not filled up he for a long time Declared he had only two which was already engaged, however by the Gentleman pushing the matter he declared he had passed his word to this Court that he would not grant any more, within the space of two months, & after...
Date: 17 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Soon after I sailed from Plimouth, I received intelligence from Lieut [James] Norman of the Tender [Effort] bound to Cork, that two American Frigats and a Sloop were cruizeing off the Lands End: and next morning I chaced them, and found they were two Dutch Frigats of twenty four Guns Each, and a Cutter, who were waiting for their India Ships: they have cruized on that Station since April last,...
Date: 18 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Intelligence being received that several Rebel Merchant Ships bound to Hamburgh and Amsterdam are expected to come North about, Also that some Rebel Privateers are expected in those Seas; I am commanded by my Lords Commissrs of the Admty to signify their directions to You, upon the Arrival of the Pelican and Camelion in the Downes, to order their Commanders to return to their Station, and cruize...
Date: 19 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9