Don Manuel Falquez to Commander William Fooks, R.N., October 18, 1777

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Sir

I am informed there is coming into the Port under my Command a Brigantine belonging to the Expedition of your Honor, and respecting your dispatches it is not necessary said Brig should Anchor as also the three Sloops which with the frigate makes five, you are immediately to give orders that said Brig and the rest of the Vessells to retire not only from this Port but from the extremities of the Coasts of this Island belonging to the King my Master—as for your Honors dispatches I am answering your Governor of Grenada

God Guard your Honor many years
I Kiss your Honros hand
Man^l falques

Trinidad 18^th. Oct^r 1777

Copy, UkLPR, C.O. 101/21, 82. Addressed at foot of first page: "The Commander of His Britanick Majestys Frigate." Docketed: "Translation from the Spanish/of the Governor of Trinidada's/Letter to Captain Fooks of the/Favorite Sloop ofWar/18 October 1777." Docketed in another hand: "In Lord Macartney's/(N^o. 40) of 24^th. Oct^r. 1777./ (7)." See below, Macartney to Lord George Germain.

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1777 October 18

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American Theatre from October 1, 1777, to December 31, 1777

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