[St. James's] 22 March 1776.
[Extract]
No. 1
You will be extremely cautious how you avail yourself of the orders sent by M. de GrimaldV and call on His Catholic Majesty's officers to search any vessel that you may suspect to have warlike stores on board, observing to them at the time, that this search is made at your particular requisition, that it may not hereafter be used as precedent, and you will not call for such examination without having good reason to believe arms and ammunition are actually on board the ship.
1. Sparks Transcripts, Lord Grantham, I, 6-7, HU.
2. See H. Katenkamp to Lord Weymouth, February 24, 1776.
