Corunna 11th: March 1778
No: 79. My Lord
I have the Honor to acquaint your Lordship that the San Pedro of 74 Guns is ready to sail to Cadiz from Ferrol deeply laden with warlike Stores, and that the Real of 114 Guns supposed to be the largest Ship in Europe is preparing to be fitted out.
The 6th Instant La Nymphe a French Frigate of 40 Guns commanded by Le Comte de Joinville1 arrived in this Port and reports that she belongs to a Squadron now cruizing in the Bay of Biscay.
The Rebel Privateer Hawke, Jeremiah Hilbert Master has taken and carried into Bilboa a Newfoundland Ship2 Capt: Sowder Cole, laden with 2500 Quintels of Codfish and twenty Tons of Oil
Nothing else deserving Your Lordship's Attention has occur'd since my last of the 18th. Past.
I most humbly recommend myself to the Continuance of your Lordships Protection and Favor, having the Honor to be [&c.]
H Katencamp
L, UkLPR, S.P. (Foreign) 94/205, fol. 114. Addressed at the foot of the first page: "The Rt. HonbIe. Lord Viscount Weymouth." Docketed: "Coruña 11 March 1778/Consul Katenkamp/ (No 79)/R. 6 April."
1. Lieutenant Commandant Nicolas-Antoine, Chevalier de Beaudot de Sainneville, commanded Nymphe.
2. Dove. See "Extract of a letter from Capt. John Lowden Cole, Bilboa, Feb. 28," above.