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The present serves to convey to you a few Newspapers which I have regularly sent to me from London.
The Honble Commissioners do not know of this Opportunity or I should no doubt have some Dispatches to forward. I hope however soon to have a packet Boat to fit out.
The public talk here is that there will soon be a War, but we have had so much talk to so little purpose that it is not believed by...
Date: 10 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . .This Court continues the same Conduct that it has held ever since our arrival. It professes to England a Resolution to observe all Treaties, and proves it by restoring Prizes too openly brought into their Ports, imprisoning such Persons as are found to be concerned in fitting out armed Vessels against England from France, warning frequently those from America to depart, and repeating Orders...
Date: 8 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
...The open Protection & Assistance which the American Privateers & their Prizes receive in the Ports of this Island, joined to the new Arrangement which I had the honor of mentioning to you in my last,1 have given Rise to Some spirited Letters betwixt our General2 & the Governor of Antigua;3—the latter, in an illiberal & ungentlemanly manner,...
Date: 26 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
There have been Several Captures made by American Privateers amongst the Islands, & brought into this Port, attended with Circumstances which leave a Doubt in regard to the Rights of appropriating them to the Benefit of the Captors.—
Before I enter into this Matter I must promise to you, that there is no Method by which we can distress the Enemy's in these Seas more than by preventing the...
Date: 8 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11