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I offer you all my thanks, Sir, for forwarding to me the dispatch from M. Garnier concerning the secret branch he had the initiative to put back into operation. The additions that he has suggested seem to deserve all our attention. I know how important it is for us to be exactly informed of all English maritime movements; I also think that we could take great advantage of the connections which M...
Date: 20 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Orders are given in all the sea ports of this kingdom, prohibiting the taking in any cargoes for the English colonies; and to inform those who do so, that it will be at their own risk.
Date: 11 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord, I received yesterday the honour of Your Lordship's Letter of the 15th Inst No. 19, and in consequence I did not fail to speak to M: de Vergennes on the affair of the Powder sent to Philadelphia from St. Domingo. He assured me, My Lord, that we must certainly have been misinformed, and I must do him the Justice to say that the whole tenor of his Language which was frank and positive upon...
Date: 20 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My dear Lord,
Mr Sackville this morning most agreeably surprised me with the News that your Lordship was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies,
No Friend whatever can more truly rejoice than I do, that Justice has at last been rendered to your Merit and that you are in some degree made Amends, for the gross, Cruel, base, unjustifiable persecution you underwent in the late Reign, and that...
Date: 12 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
A few American ships have appeared lately in several European ports; their Captains have openly admitted that they intend to obtain arms and ammunition. I have the honr to forward this information to Your Excellency because I am convinced that you will dispatch the required orders to forbid in the ports of the Kingdom the exportation of war ammunition of all kinds on British vessels and even on...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I shall not waste a moment to answer the letter with which Your Excellency honored me and of which I shall give an account to my Court without fail. I dare assure you already now, Monsieur le Comte, that the King my master, whose intentions are all aimed at perpetuating the fortunate. harmony that exists between the two nations, will receive with pleasure the renewed assurance of constant...
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
My Lord, I am very happy to find by Your Lordship's Letter No 20., that the manner in which I transmitted the Intelligence I received with regard to the intended Armament at Brest, has met with His Majesty's most gracious approbation.
Without seeming to have taken the least Alarm, I make that Armament a principal Object of my Attention. All the Secret Intelligence I have been able to collect,...
Date: 3 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3