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Sir I have just now received information that there's lying in your Road a Sloop lately arrived from Philadelphia ー as I wou'd not wish to do any thing, which might be deemed an Infringement of the treaties, & good Harmony, Subsisting between their high mightinesses, and the King of Great Britain my Master, I therefore request your Excellencys Sanction, for Seizing the aforementioned Vessel...
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Till I had the honour of receiving your Excellencys Letter, I did not know that their High Mightinesses Governors had Orders to protect the Vessels, belonging to the King of Great Britain's Rebellious Colonies. I have the honor to be Sir [&c.]
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I had the honour to receive from Mr Charles Chabert your Excellencys Letter of the 14th Current Complaining that Captain [John] Colpoys of His Britannic Majesty's Ship the Seaford, had on the 10th Instant wrote to desire your permission to Seize an American Vessel (from Philadelphia) then lying in the Road of St. Eustatia; this Letter I certainly disapprove of as he had no Authority or...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5