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My Lord

I have this moment fallen upon the' exact state of the Busyness which is the immediate object of A Lee's journey to Madrid. The delegates at Paris, assisted by the Count d'Aranda, & the Weverial Minister I before described, had Adopted a scheme suggested by a M. de Rulle Cour to give the Congress an Establishment convenient for an admiralty Jurisdiction in Europe or rather Africa. The writings are drawn & signed by the Partys Namely the delegates & Rulle Cour, who has Engaged to raise 1000 Men to Garison, & Mony to build a Fortification on one of the Zaferinos Islands near Melila on the Coast of Fez in the Mediteranian, wch belong to Spain, if to any body ー they being considered as desolate: On the other Part, is stipulated that Rulle Cour shall have a Commission as Capt Genl & Gov. of the Island &c &c. And I believe MacIntosh, at Leyden, expects to be JudgeAdvocate. Mony is offered by M. de Chaumont in France, & M. D'yranda at Madrid, & the two Ministers have Added all their power & sollicitation to give the scheme success . . . .

Poland street [London] 3 March.