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My Lord On Monday Night I received the Honour of yr Lordships Letters Nos 26 and 27.
As it is natural that this Court, tho' they may not desire the Independency of America, should wish, that the Reduction of it may cost us dear, and must therefore be disposed, to connive at least, at any assistance the Rebels can draw from hence, I keep that object constantly in view, and collect the best secret...
Date: 24 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lord As great Latitude is left me, in the Execution of the order transmitted me, in Yr Lordships Letter No 29,2 and as the Business is of considerable Nicety, as well as Importance, I will venture to state to Your Lordship, ー What has occurred to me upon it, after turning it much in Thoughts, and weighing it with all the Attention I can. ー The objections to an unfavourable answer,...
Date: 31 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The very material Intelligence communicated to me by the Kings Command in Your Lordship's most confidential Letter of the 18th Inst agrees, as You will have observed, in several Respects with the imperfect accounts I have from time to time transmitted, particularly in my Letter No 53. in which I mentioned by Name Messrs chaumont & DuBourg. I am persuaded that the Person whom I there called...
Date: 21 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... The Naval Preparations certainly continue, and as I am informed, a Resolution is taken, to send a Fleet into the french West Indies early in the Spring M. Dennery, who was upon the point of leaving St Domingo, when he received orders to remain there another Year, has consented to stay. Your Lordship knows, that he is a Man of Ability, and of an active, enterprizing Spirit, and much connected...
Date: 4 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have already observed to Your Lordship, that there now prevails here a pretty general opinion, that the public Tranquillity will not continue long, and that this unhappy Business will bring on a War in which Great Brittain and France will soon find themselves involved2
It begins to be whispered, that a large body of Troops has rece'd orders to march to the Coast of Britany, others...
Date: 18 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr Cyrus [Silas] Deane who in some Companies calls himself a Native of Bermudas but who is well known here to be a North American and a Secret agent for the Congress is certainly in constant intercourse with Beaumarchais who was lately not worth a shilling but has now Millions at his Command. He keeps a Table and entertains Deane and other Americans and friends to their cause. He is likewise, as...
Date: 25 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... Not long ago Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin in a Letter to a french Gentleman with whom he corresponds from time to time upon Philosophical subjects, took occasion to say with that insidious subtlety of which he has given so many proofs, that as soon as the Independency of america was secured Her first object would be to open a great Trade with France and such as would be highly advantageous to...
Date: 3 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6