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As I was, two Days ago, with M. Grimaldi upon some Business, relating to a new Duty on Rum exacted at Cadiz, I took Occasion to repeat what I had before said to him, on the Subject of searching and seizing such Vessels, as should be carrying on an illicit Trade to North America, and I had the Satisfaction, not only to find him in the same Sentiments which he had professed before, on my first...
Date: 2 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am well informed that orders have been sent to the several Ports for an account of the American vessels which have put into them, and the returns will probably be soon made; in the mean time I enclose to Your Lordship the advices which I have received from Cadiz and Malaga on that subject. This intelligence will undoubtedly affect the Spanish, as well as our commerce, and ought to point out to...
Date: 19 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The last advices from Galicia and Sir John Hort's intelligence to His Majesty's Consuls in this country bring an account of the progress and boldness of the American privateers who have ventured so far as the coasts of this and the neighboring kingdoms; a circumstance which affects, and ought to alarm every commercial nation in Europe, and to induce a general opposition to it. There is now at...
Date: 7 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
By my last advices from Alicant I have learnt that a French vessel was arrived there which had been met on the 14th November, off the Rock of Lisbon, by a North American armed vessel, and forcibly obliged to take on board eleven Sailors, part of the crews belonging to two British ships taken on the 12th, about twenty five leagues to the westward of the said Rock. The pirate is a sloop called the...
Date: 2 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have received the Honour of your Lordship's, No 28, with its several Inclosures.
I saw M. Grimaldi yesterday, and spoke to him very strongly with respect to the Prize, which the Washington Privateer 2 had taken, and sent into Bilbao to dispose of the Cargo. I represented this Transaction to him, as an Act of the most open Piracy, and as an Attempt to impose upon this Government by...
Date: 23 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
An American Merchantman has brought Accounts frorn America of the 2d of last Month, which tend to confirm the expectation of the best Consequences of the Success of His Majesty's Forces, and the Captain, one Gordon, is persuaded, that from the Discontent of Washingtons Army, the Difficulty of keeping them together, and other Causes, the several colonies will return to their Allegiance.
This...
Date: 3 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . I am however to observe to Your Lordship that he [Grimaldi] concluded with saying that the extent to which our Armaments and others had now gone was owing to want of confidence and communication, in order to restore which this Court was ready and would be the first to induce such explanations to be brought on between us and £ranee as should remove all seeds of mistrust whatever, and not...
Date: 10 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
My Lord, Since I had the Honour of writing last to your Lordship, M. Grimaldi has given me official Assurances, that proper Orders shall be sent from hence, to prevent the Exportation from the Ports of Spain of any warlike Stores upon British Vessels, and I enclose to your Lordship a Copy of my Note to him, & of his Answer to it, together with a Translation of the latter. Besides which...
Date: 9 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I have been well informed that the Spanish vessel which M. Grimaldi 2 has assured me was detained at Gixon, was hired by the master of an American vessel mentioned in mine No 57 of the last year, and had brought from Holland a very considerable quantity of gunpowder. The American vessel which was to receive the powder, has kept out of the Spanish ports. On my mentioning these...
Date: 8 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
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No 45:
. . .I had learnt from Cadiz, that Orders had been received there by the Governor to notify to the Master of the Carolina Vessel in that port that he was not to attempt taking any Ammunition or warlike Stores on board, and that in consequence of this Notification, the said Vessell was lading with Salt.2 . . .
Upon my opening to M. Florida blanca that I was apprized of...
Date: 11 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have received the Honour of your Lordship's Letters No 18 & No 19, & have explained very fully to M: Florida blanca the Transactions relative to the Northampton Prize: I likewise laid before him such Advices as I had received from Cadiz & from Ferrol, distinguishing those to which I gave Credit, from those which I had only reason to suspect. For I had heard that there was strong...
Date: 25 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Since I had the Honour of writing to your Lordship, on the 25th of last Month, I have received fresh Assurances that the Orders which M: Florida blanca had promised to issue, were actually all dispatched. I have communicated to him the Particulars, relating to a Vessel provided with French & American Colours, concealing half the Crew, and all her Guns during her Stay at Alicante, & being...
Date: 1 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . I have received Accounts from some of the Ports, of the Orders which have been issued with regard to American Ships, being received there; and apprehending that the enclosed Copy of them is authentic, I remit it, together with it's Translation to your Lordship. G: Cunningham with his Privateer the Revenge has been at Ferrol, and at the Coruna, and the last prize which he had taken called...
Date: 8 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have received the Honour of your Lordship's No 21. and have communicated to M. Florida blanca the Sentiments which I was instructed to convey, and this I did in the most particular and ample Manner that I could; And I am to acquaint your Lordship, that he received them with Expressions strongly professing the Desire of this Court to preserve the publick Tranquility. I was obliged however, at...
Date: 22 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
In a Conversation which I have had with M. Floridablanca since I had the Honour of writing last to your Lordship,1 he Shewed me a Letter which he had just received from Don Felix O'Neile, now Commandant at Coruña. It appeared from this Letter that M. O'Neile had received fresh Orders to prevent the Sale of Prizes, or at least to have the Value of their Cargoes, if sold, deposited; that...
Date: 8 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
An Appeal relative to the Prize, Syren, taken by Cunningham is laid before the Council of War, notwithstanding all the Attempts made by General O'Neil to prevent it.1
I have taken all the Steps, which I can with propriety, to have this Matter represented to that Tribunal in its true Light. The Decision of it will be of consequence, as it will determine the Sense, in which such Captures...
Date: 19 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11