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... In said Letter [Masserano's of September 6] and in the one numbered 343 dated 10 September, Y. E. communicates the maritime armaments increasing in those [British] Ports, 36 ships of the line having been ordered thus far for readying. Y. E. has reason to mistrust such extraordinary and expensive measures, which that Power would not take without serious motives in circumstances of great...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
. . . It is certain that now more than ever it behooves us to foment that war and incite those Colonists to extend their privateering and capture Portuguese vessels. Regarding admission to our ports, I have already expressed to Y. E. [Your Excellency] what the General thought. But if they were to capture Portuguese vessels in South America, from where we have information that the Colonists sail...
Date: 8 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
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No 45:
. . .I had learnt from Cadiz, that Orders had been received there by the Governor to notify to the Master of the Carolina Vessel in that port that he was not to attempt taking any Ammunition or warlike Stores on board, and that in consequence of this Notification, the said Vessell was lading with Salt.2 . . .
Upon my opening to M. Florida blanca that I was apprized of...
Date: 11 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The King has been informed regarding the contents of your letter of May 12, No. 49, concerning the effective and fortunate steps with which you succeeded in seizing eleven English vessels which were engaged in smuggling in your jurisdiction. Your Excellency added that most of them were entirely unfit for sailing and that among these prizes were two that belo11ged to North Americans who have...
Date: 15 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have received the Honour of your Lordship's Letters No 18 & No 19, & have explained very fully to M: Florida blanca the Transactions relative to the Northampton Prize: I likewise laid before him such Advices as I had received from Cadiz & from Ferrol, distinguishing those to which I gave Credit, from those which I had only reason to suspect. For I had heard that there was strong...
Date: 25 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Since I had the Honour of writing to your Lordship, on the 25th of last Month, I have received fresh Assurances that the Orders which M: Florida blanca had promised to issue, were actually all dispatched. I have communicated to him the Particulars, relating to a Vessel provided with French & American Colours, concealing half the Crew, and all her Guns during her Stay at Alicante, & being...
Date: 1 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . I have received Accounts from some of the Ports, of the Orders which have been issued with regard to American Ships, being received there; and apprehending that the enclosed Copy of them is authentic, I remit it, together with it's Translation to your Lordship. G: Cunningham with his Privateer the Revenge has been at Ferrol, and at the Coruna, and the last prize which he had taken called...
Date: 8 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9