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I have the Honor of inclosing to your Excellency a Deposition taken upon Oath before His Majesty's Chief Justice of Dominica and at the same time that I beg leave to recommend the Contents of it to your Excellencys Serious consideration, and have no doubt but the Complainents who accompany it will receive from your Excellency such protection and Justice as the Nature of their cause shall require...
Date: 8 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I had the honor to receive Your Dispatch by Captain Colpoyse and can assure you Sir that I entertain the same sentiments with regard to the illegality of the Mode lately adopted of fitting out Armed Vessels without Commissions or any lawfull authority from the Crown, for the Purpose of Cruizing and making Captures of American Vessels and that it is highly derogatory to the Kings Authority; my...
Date: 11 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Sir I had the honor to receive your Letter together with the inclosure relative to the Nonexportation of Powder and Ammunition, and as soon as I conveniently could, I issued my Proclamation, thereby prohibiting for a limited time the Exportation of those articles from this Island.
I beg leave Sir to embrace this occasion of congratulating you upon your arrival on this station, and hope I may...
Date: 25 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I think it necessary for the good of His Majesty's Service, that you should be acquainted by the earliest opportunity which I now embrace; that a Fleet of French Men of War consisting of Six Sail one of 64 guns five large Frigates with the Corvet appeared off this Rhode about a week ago, they kept the Shore as close aboard as the Wind would permit in Order to fetch Guadaloupe and two days...
Date: 5 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
As I doubt not but that Your Excellency's Aid du Camp the Baron de Fagan must have arriv'd some days at Martinique, So I presume he has already made my excuses to Your Excy. and told you, Sir, the reasons why it was impossible for me to answer Your Excellency's Letter of the eighteenth instant relative to the Seizure of the Brigantine1 belonging to the Sieur Serjenton,2...
Date: 3 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I have the honor to send you inclosed an information which I received this Morning upon Oath—A Rebel Sloop called the Revenge mounting 12 four pounders, was brought in here the Night before last, by five Seamen who Confined the Captain and took possession of her the Day she left St: Pierres Road; in sight of the Shiping and under the fire of three Battery's. The Vessels mentioned in...
Date: 22 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Hearing that a safe opportunity offers from St: Kitts for England I avail myself of It in order to send Your Lordship the several inclosures which contain intelligence that I think my Duty to communicate to Your Lordship by the earliest opportunity.—There is now actually passing by this Island a Fleet of eleven Sail under Convoy of a large French Frigate. They are mostly small Vessels...
Date: 12 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11