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Most Excellen Sir: From the two million livres tournois appropriated by both Courts to help the English Colonies in America, the following materials are now being shipped to them
216
bronze cannons
51,134
round shot
209
gun carriages
300
thousand weight of gunpowder
27
mortars
30,000
rifles with bayonets
28
mortar beds
4,000
tents
12,826
bombs
30,000
suits of clothing
Date: 7 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In reply to Your Excellency's letter of the Ninth of this month in which you informed me of what transpired between the Spanish brigantine La Vierge du Carmel on her return to Cadiz from Havana, and a British frigate commanded by Captain Maximillian Jacobs,2 I shall inform Your Excellency that I conveyed my protests to Mylord Suffolk at the confrence. He replied that he had given the...
Date: 27 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
. . . And Y. E. should also know that the knowledge here of ships being readied in the Ports of France can also be the cause of wishing to be prepared for any event, with sea forces opposing those of that Power and ours if we be of a mind to disturb the peace. In addition to this, as almost all its frigates and smaller war vessels are off the American coast, they [English J must make use of ships...
Date: 18 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7