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I have been ordered by the honorable Security Council of Virginia presently holding the executive power of the Government to communicate to your Excellency various papers for your perusal.
This is to inform you that after being long persecuted and still more oppressed by the British Government which has not only employed force but all kinds of cruel and inhuman means to put into effect its...
Date: 18 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
After reporting to you yesterday the arrival of the Captain of the English frigate, a vessel appeared west of the Pointes, about two leagues to leeward, and manoeuvered to come and drop anchor; the English Captain who was ashore saw the foreign ship, embarked immediately, slipped his cables and got under way to chase the other. Calm weather probably delayed his manoeuver: they rejoined about nine...
Date: 28 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
One hour after noon, I had the honor to receive your letter which you wrote to me this morning at 4 o'clock and which was brought to me by M. Coquille. I sent to the Captain of the English frigate 12 the other letter which you addressed to me. Herewith I enclose his answer translated by M. Piteau who was the intrpreter in all this affair.
You will notice in his answer, General, that the Captain...
Date: 29 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I have had the Honour to receive your answer to my Remonstrance. I beg leave to express to your Excellency the Surprize I feel in being inform'd that the Battery fired in Consequence of my Chasing a schooner which was unknown, permit me to assure your Excellency that the Fact has been represented, 2 that instead of chacing towards the shore I was at that instant standing from the land and in...
Date: 29 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Captain Chapman of His Brittannic Majesty's Ship the Shark has transmitted me an Account of His being attacked off St Pierres road, Martinique, by an American Pirate, called the Reprisal, carrying 120 Men, and 18 Six pound Guns; which He would have taken, had She not been protected by the Forts, and received into the koad of St Pierre. Captain Chapman acquaints me he desisted from Engageing the...
Date: 4 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I had anticipated, Sir the observations that you brought to my attention conceming the need to send a few of the King's Ships to cruise off St. Dominique. As soon as he received news of the offensive actions committed by the English frigates in the waters of this Colony, the King had ordered that two frigates and one corvette be stationed there in order to enforce the authority of the French flag...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have received, Sir, your letters Nos. 119 and 122 dated 31 July3 and 7 August in which you reported the engagement in sight of St. Pierre Road between H.B.M. frigate Shark, Captain Chapman, and the American corvette le Reprise [Reprisal] Captain Lambert Wickes, as well as the request made to you by M. Chapman to the effect that the King's frigate be allowed to seize the Bostonian...
Date: 31 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You informed me in your letter No 120 of the arrival of Capt. [Thomas] Dorves2 who did likewise on his own. I approve your attitude in insisting that he cruise to windward as prescribed by his instructions. His protest was only made on the grounds that he could not have remained at sea as constantly as he would have desired; I am convinced that he has not neglected anything in...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
General, I have the honor to send you an account of a special event which took place yesterday along the coast. I have already told you, General, that two English merchants recommended by M. [Thomas] Shirley, Governor of Dominica had come here from that island. These two gentlemen came here in a truce ship on a mission for the English Government and were therefore welcome. Wishing to return to...
Date: 25 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have the Honor of inclosing to your Excellency a Deposition taken upon Oath before His Majesty's Chief Justice of Dominica and at the same time that I beg leave to recommend the Contents of it to your Excellencys Serious consideration, and have no doubt but the Complainents who accompany it will receive from your Excellency such protection and Justice as the Nature of their cause shall require...
Date: 8 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have just received Your Excellency's Letter of the 2nd Instant,2 Complaining that a French Brigantine called Le Guillaume, coming from Miquelon has been taken by an Armed Boat called the Abraham: one Gilbert Grant Commander, who had no Commission to Act in an Hostile manner, and has been carried into the Island of Dominica; I am very sorry to receive from any of his Brittanie Majesty...
Date: 7 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I had the Honour to receive Your Excellency's Letter of the 12th Current, by Monsieur Bougon: and have very great pleasure to perceive my Letter addressed to Your Excellency the 7th Instant has given the Satisfaction I wished.
From Your Excellencys known Justice and Integrity I doubt not, that when You are Rightly informed of the Collusion and Deceit practised between the American Rebels and some...
Date: 23 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have the honor of your Excellencys Letter of the 3d Sepr by Messrs Pascaud & Dubuisson, wherein You request I will grant them Pass-Ports for Two Vessels named the Chance [sic Hazard] & Prudent, to go to Halifax and Quebec to load with Lumber for Building; the Inhabitants of St Nichola Mole being in a most distressed situation for want thereof, owing to a late fire which has destroyed...
Date: 26 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I had the honor of your Excellency's dispatch of the 16th. Instant, by the Chevalier de Cuverville,1 to whom I shall, with pleasure, render every kind of civility.
The nature of your Excellency's complaints against the person commanding the Tender, called the Snail,2 relative to the Commission granted by Captain Garnier,3 and the Vexations your Vessels...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I had the honor of your letter of the 19th: december last with a declaration concerning the behaviour of some of the Officers under my Command,1 it was deliverd to me by a Spanish Merchant, which was my reason for not answering it before, as I thought a letter on His Most Christian Majesty's Service, ought to have been forwarded, by one of His Officers & not by a...
Date: 2 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11