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. . . 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
In a letter dated the 10th of the current month in your own hand, Y. E. informed the King of the conversation you had with Vergennes regarding the help which the Court there has disposed to have shipped to the rebellious Colonies of America, and that the mentioned Minister let you read a note stating all the articles and their amount, and having received a copy, you enclosed it in the mentioned...
Date: 21 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have informed the King of the contents of your letter of the 22nd of last month and he is happy to learn that some assistance is on the way; for after the advantages which English arms have obtained in those parts the assistance may be even more urgent and necessary in order to encourage the insurgents and preserve them in the system they have adopted; the King and all his cabinet believe it is...
Date: 9 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I left in your Excellency's Hands, to be communicated, if you please, to your Court, a Duplicate of the Commission from the Congress, appointing me to go to Spain as their Minister Plenipotentiary. But as I understand that the Receiving such a Minister is not at present thought convenient, I am sure the Congress would have nothing done that might incommode in the least a Court they so much...
Date: 7 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
A Memorial from the Commissioners of the United States of America.
The Congress some Months since acquainted us, that 80,000 Suits of Clothes will be wanted for their Army next Winter: Also a Number of brass Cannon, Fusils, Pistols, &c. and a large Quantity of Naval Stores.
To pay for these, they acquainted us that they had purchased great Quantities of Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, Pot-Ash, and...
Date: 30 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9