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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
My Lord, In consequence of Your Lordship's Letter N. 9. I waited upon the Marquis Tanucci and made the proper application for obstructing the Exportation of Gunpowder or other Warlike Stores from Naples or any of His Sicilian Majesty's Dominions to the British Colonies in America. The Marquis answer'd that He was very sure that His Sicilian Majesty wou'd be happy upon this, as upon every other...
Date: 17 August 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord I have the honor of inclosing a billet which I receivd soon after I had sent off my last Dispatch, and by which Your Lordship will see that the necessary Orders have been given to prevent the Exportation of Gun-Powder and other Warlike Stores from His Sicilian Majesty's Dominions to the British Colonies in America.
Date: 23 August 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord, I received yesterday the honour of Your Lordship's Letter of the 15th Inst No. 19, and in consequence I did not fail to speak to M: de Vergennes on the affair of the Powder sent to Philadelphia from St. Domingo. He assured me, My Lord, that we must certainly have been misinformed, and I must do him the Justice to say that the whole tenor of his Language which was frank and positive upon...
Date: 20 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord, I have the honor of informing your Lordship That yesterday Morning Sir Jno Blagmire received a Letter dated at Cork the 29th past, from Robert Gordon Esqr Surveyor General of His Majesty's Customs & Excise at that Port, containing some Particulars of News from America; the following Extract of which Letter, from the Recency of the Accounts, may perhaps be agreeable to your Lordship....
Date: 4 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord My first Conversation with Mr de Vergennes was a pretty long one, and as friendly as possible ー After the first Compliments were over, He said "You find us here, My Lord, exactly in the same Sentiments in which you left us ー desirous of living in perfect Harmony with you, and very far from meaning to do anything that can tend to encrease the Embarras of your present critical Situation" ー...
Date: 31 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
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