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Notice has been given me in the most secret and confidential manner, that our Deputy Governor has received instructions from M de Grimaldi to protect, in case of necessity, any American vessel that may arrive in this Port, but on no account to publish his having such orders, except he should at any time find it absolutely necessary. This notice, My Lord, Your Excellency may be assured is without...
Date: 8 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
It has been represented to me that the brig Dorothy, laden with fish from Newfoundland, was taken by the Washington privateer.2 The master put the captain and the whole crew aboard a Dutch vessel, and carried the brig into Bilboa, and endeavoured to pass for the master of the vessel, in order to dispose of the cargo. I am to signify to Your Excellency His Majesty's pleasure that you...
Date: 31 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Information has been received that a Mr Lee who is employed as an Agent for the Colonies in rebellion has set out for Spain. If he should come to Madrid, Your Excellency will pay such attention to his motions and applications as may be consistent with your situation. It has also been represented that a Mr Diggs [Thomas Digges] who is likewise an Agent from the American Congress has sent on board...
Date: 14 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I informed Your Excellency in my No 3, that Mr Arthur Lee, an Agent from the Congress, has lately set out for Madrid. Secret Information has been given that the Object of his journey is to obtain the consent of Spain that the Americans may take possession of one of the Islands of Zafarina 2 in Latitude 35°, betwixt Melilla and Mejerda, which place they propose as an Establishment...
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Two Days ago a Bermudas built Sloop arrived here from Charles Town in So Carolina loaded with Rice, Indigo & Tobacco. She wears the Provincial Colours; her nominal Commander is a Frenchman, one Vellon, & the name of the Vessell is the Mary. Her Crew are all French except one or two. As I am morally certain that the Cargo she brings is the Property of His Majesty's rebellious Subjects, ...
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . His Majesty has thought proper to direct Lord Stormont to make strong representations to the french Ministers on the support, assistance and shelter given to the American Privateers cruizing in the European Seas, and on the Permission given to the Captures made by those Vessels of being admitted into the Ports of France. The most positive assurances have been made on the part of France that...
Date: 25 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . I have acquainted Your Excellency in my Dispatches by Mann of the supposed intention of the American Privateers to carry their Prizes into the Ports of Spain. This is fully confirmed by the Instructions given, by Cuningham commanding a Privateer to his. Prize Master,2 which I inclose to Your Excellency, as well as copy of the Letter from Cuningham to Gardoqui of Bilbao, by which...
Date: 1 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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No 19 /
. . . The project of M. de Florida Blanca so confidentially communicated to Your Excellency, is so little consonant to the clandestine succours given to the Rebels in America; that He must have in view to deceive this Court, and mislead Your Excellency. You received the communication very properly; and You will be enabled on this ground, to press with more earnestness that a...
Date: 8 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
No 20/
I am to acquaint your Excellency that application has been made to me respecting the Juno, a Vessel taken by an american Privateer and carried into Bilbao. I inclose to your Excellency the particulars that I have been transmitted, and am to recommend to you to use your utmost endeavours to recover this Vessel for the Owners.
There is reason to apprehend that two Vessels from Jamaica bound...
Date: 26 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Letters from Your Excellency to No 48. have been received, and laid before The King.
The strict Orders, which M: de Florida Blanca assured Your Excellency would be sent to the several Ports in Spain to prevent the sale of the Captures made by the American Privateers, had not by the last accounts reached Bilbao, or were eluded by the connivance of the Officers of that Port. Information has...
Date: 19 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The information We have received confirming the account that Cunningham's Vessel has been allowed to receive every assistance in Ferrol which he stood in need of obliges Me again to recommend this important matter to Your attention, not doubting that You will very earnestly represent to M: de Florida Blanca how inconsistent such a practice is with the professions so frequently made to Your...
Date: 26 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have just received the acknowledgement of the Commandant General of Galicia, from which I perceive that in consequence of the Orders which we issued in August he sent the American Privateer out of Ferrol where she was, she having scarcely provided herself with such things as she required upon Sufficient Cause & which related merely to the Ship.2 Another Privateer had come into...
Date: 30 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Letters from Your Excellency to No. 61 have been received and laid before The King.
His Majesty approves of Your Excy's having given proper Attention That the Appeal of the Prize Syren taken by Cunningham should be represented in it's true Light to the Council of War; and I am to recommend to you this important Object.
His Majesty learns with great Satisfaction That M. d...
Date: 20 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11