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Sir I received your Letter of the 22d August on Sunday last about four of the clock in the afternoon, and them immediately appointed a meeting of His Majts Council to be held in the town of Basseterre yesterday but there being no more than five members in this island, and one of them is so bad a state of health as to render him unable to attend, which I knew nothing of till the time appointed...
Date: 30 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I have received your Letter of the 19th Instant and am extremely sorry to acquaint you, that the Accounts you have had of the dreadfull Disasters which have happened in this Island are too true, for on the 5th Instant about one or two in the Morning a Fire broke out in the Town of Basseterre and from the fury and continuance of its Progress consumed all the Storehouses except one or two, and...
Date: 21 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir, At a time when the antient Treaties of alliance and Friendship between Great Britain and the States General are existing in their original Spirit & Vigor; when their High Mightinesses as well as the other Sovereign Powers of Europe behold with astonishment & indignation and have Solemnly expressed their abhorrence of the unnatural Rebellion stirred up by the Subjects of the King my...
Date: 17 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir, The Letter which I had the honour to receive from you of the 23d in reply to mine of the 17th Inst. make it necessary that I should once more trouble your Honour on the same subject.
On a reperusal of my former letter I am insensible of any Expression in it heightened beyond the Duty I owe my Royal Master, or incompatible with the respect due to your Honours Station, & the Decorum to be...
Date: 26 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have the honour of forwarding to your Lordship Copies of my Letters to the Governor of St Eustatius, his answer and my reply, with Copies of Depositions taken in this Island, respecting the flagrant Indignity offered to His Majesty's Colours, in the Publick Honour paid by the Principal Dutch Fort to an American Privateer, and the notorious assistance afforded in that Island to His Majesty's...
Date: 31 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir I was favoured yesterday with your Letter of the 16th Instant, and having the Day before received one from Mr [Thomas] Warner, His Majesty's Attorney General of His Leeward Charibbee Islands, accompanied by Copies of two Letters he received from you, and of two wrote by him to you on the Subject of the Sloop Reprisal, also a Copy of a Case touching the same Sloop with his Opinion thereon; I...
Date: 19 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7