Your Excellency: Recent events in Malaga, concerning a shipment going to Anglo-America, were referred to in another letter of this date in order that it be new evidence of our consideration for the English Court. I add for Your Excellency's information the following: another vessel, named the Polly, arrived at La Corufia, and the British Consul sought to have the patent and all the papers impounded in order to impede its putting to sea. Our Commandant-General, Don Felix Oneille, did not lend himself to such violence. The King, on being informed, approved this decision. While the King does not wish to give the least aid to the Americans with arms or munitions (being unable to distinguish which are innocent and which are guilty), he does not believe it correct to make them hostile or to close the ports to them when they come to continue a legal commerce that they have conducted here. Your Excellency will make the most convenient use of these facts on those occasions that may present themselves to you. I remain praying to God that your life [&c.] The Prado, 6 February 1776. Marquis de Grimaldi