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Sir, The inclosed Memorial 2 having been presented to me by a Subject of His Brittannic Majesty, I think it my duty to send Captain [John] Colpoys of his Majesty's Ship the Seaford, to lay the same before your Excellency, in order that strict Enquiry may be made into the Circumstances related therein; and if foi.ind to be as represented, to Demand in the Name of the King of Great...
Date: 14 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir I beg leave to acquaint your Excellency with the arrival of His Britannic Majesty's Ship the Seaford in the Road of Statia, being charged with some dispatches from Vice Admiral Young to your Excellency; I beg to know, when it will be most convenient for your Excellency, to let me have the Honor of waiting on you with them.
I beg leave to observe to your Excellency, that it has hitherto been...
Date: 16 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have just now been Honoured with your Excellency's answer to my letter of this days date, and beg leave to acquaint you that I will do myself the Honour of waiting on your Excellency with Vice Adml Youngs dispatches to morrow at 11-o'-Clock I have the honour to be Sir [&c.]
was Sign'd J. H. Colpoy's
Date: 16 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
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 just had the Honor to receive Your Letter dated at St Eustatia, the 12th Instant by Your Excellency's Aid de Camp Henricus Godet Esqr demanding in the name of their High Mightenesses the States General Restitution to be made of the ship Water Geus and her Lading; consisting of west India and American produce; and of the Ship Hope [de Hoop], and her Lading consisting of One Thousand seven...
Date: 15 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9