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Being assured by the last accounts from Europe of the perfect harmony and good understanding which subsists between their Catholick & Britannic Majestys I cannot do less than express my surprize at the Insult offered in this River, to two Vessels, one Spanish and the other French, whose Passports, Registers and Bills of Lading were in due form.
I shall not animadvert on the treatment &...
Date: 26 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have received the letter you wrote me Seven Leagues from this City; 2 and supposing that you would arrived soon, I did not immediately attend to its Contents; which I have now done, perceiving that you are still detained by contrary Winds.
I have considered the reasons you give me for having detained the two Vessels, and find with great pleasure that no hostile intentions towards my...
Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I received your Letter of date the 27 April under date of the 1st May, and without entering particularly into all the several Articles, I was willing to wait your arrival to talk upon the Subject agreeable to your wishes as mentioned in Your Letters.
I agree with you that as Commanding one of His Britannic Majesty's Ships, it behooves you to make yourself acquainted with every occurrence which...
Date: 11 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have just received your letter of this days date, in which you inform me, that you are under the necessity of weighing Anchor to go in pursuit of a Frigate mounting 36 guns belonging to the Americans, called the Columbus commanded by Mr [Patrick] Barry now in the Mississippi; I take this opportunity to remind you of the rights of my Sovereign, and beg you will recollect the Priviledge which the...
Date: 12 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
At a Council held in the Council Chamber at
Pensacola on Wednesday the 18th day of March 1778—
His Excellency laid before the Board the following Letters from New orleans &C which had been just received by Express Containing farther Intelligence respecting the proceedings of the Rebels in the Mississippi and the same being read were all ordered to be entered on the Minutes as...
Date: 18 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11