N^o. 30
Excellency Lord Grantham Sir

I have received your Excellency's Dispatch N^o 59 and have laid it before the King.

You inform me that the Brig Sally has been sent as a prize into Coruña by the rebel Privateers the Raleigh and Alfred, and Your Excellency makes no observation on this circumstance. I am commanded by His Majesty to acquaint You that He cannot doubt You have taken this opportunity of renewing your representations to M. de Florida Blanca, & strongly urging the necessity of restoring this Vessel to the Owners. The northern ports of Spain have yielded for some time a constant protection to the American Privateers, and their prizes have been sold by the collusion of the Spanish Officers. I have therefore in command from His Majesty direct Your Excellency to renew your representations on this subject, and to endeavour to obtain the earliest information of every Vessel that is carried into any of the Ports of Spain, and claim them for the benefit of the Owners with all the earnestness that so important a point requires. I am &c