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Your Excellency: After warning me that he did so of his own accord and without orders from his Court, the English Ambassador spoke to me about the frequency with which ships of his Colonies come to our Ports and carry on their usual trade. He indicated how convenient it would be to issue orders forbidding this assistance, as the Portuguese Ministry has now done with respect to that Kingdom. I...
Date: 19 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... In said Letter [Masserano's of September 6] and in the one numbered 343 dated 10 September, Y. E. communicates the maritime armaments increasing in those [British] Ports, 36 ships of the line having been ordered thus far for readying. Y. E. has reason to mistrust such extraordinary and expensive measures, which that Power would not take without serious motives in circumstances of great...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... Even admitting that Gen Howe might take possession of New York this year, he could not drive inland, and the only difference in the situation of the Regiments which were confined to Boston by the Rebels last winter is that they now have more ships to control the sea and receive the provisions sent to them here....
It is said that Gens Carleton and Burgoyne have written from Canada the...
Date: 4 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
. . . It is certain that now more than ever it behooves us to foment that war and incite those Colonists to extend their privateering and capture Portuguese vessels. Regarding admission to our ports, I have already expressed to Y. E. [Your Excellency] what the General thought. But if they were to capture Portuguese vessels in South America, from where we have information that the Colonists sail...
Date: 8 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
In a letter dated the 10th of the current month in your own hand, Y. E. informed the King of the conversation you had with Vergennes regarding the help which the Court there has disposed to have shipped to the rebellious Colonies of America, and that the mentioned Minister let you read a note stating all the articles and their amount, and having received a copy, you enclosed it in the mentioned...
Date: 21 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have informed the King of the contents of your letter of the 22nd of last month and he is happy to learn that some assistance is on the way; for after the advantages which English arms have obtained in those parts the assistance may be even more urgent and necessary in order to encourage the insurgents and preserve them in the system they have adopted; the King and all his cabinet believe it is...
Date: 9 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7