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After the Royal Army decided to abandon Boston for reasons already explained, there was a rumor that its Commanding General Howe had sailed for Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia; however, such information has now become doubtful. Some persons who believe themselves current with the military deployment of this Court in America maintain that after the fleet of transports had arrived at a certain...
Date: 31 May 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...What is certain on the side of the Americans is their activity at sea and the ships of the Crown they are capturing. They recently seized three transports, one of which named the Hope had a cargo of one thousand carbines, much powder and other munitions; so even if the abovementioned declaration by Congress were not true, these operations make it evident their determination to resist the...
Date: 12 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... I shall have the honor of reporting for the knowledge of Your Excellencies that the daring of the Americans has gone so far as to affront Great Britain even in its own channels and to capture its ships trading with Portugal, Africa, and Italy....insurance [rates] which were one and a half percent jumped to ten and ten and a half percent, and are staying there ....
Date: 27 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
. . . It is however beyond doubt that the Americans continue to capture many English ships both in American seas and European waters, as frequently there is news unfavorable to this place. Three more ships having fallen into Colonial privateer hands, according to latest reports, notices are anxiously awaited on the fate of a ship departed from Lisbon with a considerable sum of money; also unknown...
Date: 18 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . About 16 thousand [seamen] will continue to be employed on duty with the Fleet in America. The Observation Fleet off Spithead has 27 warships; allowing 550 for each, another 14,800 men will be needed; also 4,200 for vessels on guard duty in the ports of this Kingdom. This makes up the total of 35,000 seamen requested by the Ministry, and granted by the House of Commons for next year....
Date: 15 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . this Court [British] would have reason under the present circumstances to fear a French fleet of ten ships which by joining with the sea forces of the Colonies, and with other, Spanish war vessels now in the ports of Santo Domingo and the island of Cuba, would fittingly cause Great Britain to doubt the success of its own forces. . . .
Date: 13 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . Lord Norfolk having in the past few days in the name of his Sovereign solemnly thanked the Baron of Nolken, Envoy Extraordinary of Sweden, I learned that it originated from the Swedish King's refusal given to two American vessels flying the Hamburg flag, which arrived in Marstrand, a fortified city and a newly established free port near the city of Goteborg, to load artillery and war...
Date: 7 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8