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To the King Only.
Sire, ー When considerations of State impel you to extend a helping hand to the Americans, Policy requires that your Majesty proceed with such caution, that aid secretly conveyed to America may not become in Europe a brand to kindle strife between France and England. Above all, it is the part of prudence to be certain that the money cannot possibly pass into other hands...
Date: 22 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Your Majesty has already repeated several times His Orders to His Ports, to the effect that Privateers, of any nation whatever, are admitted there only for the time which is absolutely necessary for them to obtain Provisions which they have need of, and that, under no pretext whatever, can Prizes be sold there. Orders have been reiterated to the Admiralty Courts and the Officers of the Registry...
Date: 1 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9