Corunna 3d: January 1778.
No: 74 My Lord
I most humbly beg leave to refer to my last of the 15th. Past.1
Cunningham has sent in no other Prizes since those mention'd in my Letter No. 72.2 both which have been sold. The repeated Remonstrances I have made on these Occasions to the Captain General, and the Censure given him by Count Floridablanca in consequence of My Lord Grantham's Representations of his Partiality to the American Privateers, have only served to exasperate him, and thereby to render my Situation extreemly unpleasant and hazardous, he still continues to favor them to the utmost of his Power—
The Gallardo of 74 Guns is fitting out in Ferrol.
By the inclosed Letter3 which I humbly intreat may be sent to the Navy Office Your Lordship will be pleased to observe the great Loss sustained by the Newfoundland Trade for want of Convoy to the Ports of their Destination. I have the Honor to be [&c.]
H Katencamp.
L, UkLPR, S.P. (Foreign) 94/205, fols. 26-27. Addressed at the foot of the first page: "The Rt. Honble: Lord Viscount Weymouth." Docketed: "Coruña 3 Janry. 1778/Consul Katenkamp/No 74/R. 31st."
1. NDAR 10: 1104-5.
2. Brig Syren, James Renolls, and brig Dispatch, Emanuel Le Gete. NDAR 10: 1065.
3. Herman Katencamp to the British Navy Board, 3 Jan., immediately below.
