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We have certain Intelligence that a very illicit Trade is carrying on to His Majesty's Colonies in America, as well by British as foreign Ships, and as it becomes so necessary in the present Juncture to prevent as much as possible the continuance of it, Orders have been sent to the Commanders of His Majesty's Ships in the American Seas to be particularly attentive to intercept and seize any...
Date: 27 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Milord Rochford presents his compliments to Monsieur Garnier and has the honor to inform him that Milord Stormont is authorised to pay to the person designated by the Count of Vergennes the forty three thousand five hundred and sixty pounds in French money, the entire amount for the damages which the French fishermen claimed to have suffered in Newfoundland in the year 1772.
Milord Rochford is...
Date: 4 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My dear Lord ー I know you are so zealous in our cause against the American rebels that I should not act with that confidence I have in you, if I concealed from you the bitter complaints that have come home against Admiral Graves. Officers of distinction have written a state of facts that cannot be contradicted: such as, that many of our vessels have been taken, officers killed, men made prisoners...
Date: 8 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
As Lord Stormont2 intends soon to return to Paris, I shall fully discuss every point of business with His Lordship that relates to the Court where you reside and for that reason there is less occasion for my writing to you at present so particularly thereon as I otherwise should do, but I cannot defer mentioning to you the general Opinion entertained here that the American Rebels are...
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We are very much disposed to give Credit to the repeated Declarations of the French Ministers that their Government does not give Sanction to the Proceedings of Individuals in the Trade they carry on with the Rebels in America, but notwithstanding the Language Monsr de Vergennes held to You in his Conversation on that Subject, it is not possible but he must know, if he ever makes the Inquiries he...
Date: 29 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2