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The King having learned by Your Lordship's letter of 19 June past of the news it communicates about the events and deployments of English Armed Forces and of its Insurgent Colonies in New England, according to information received from various vessels of that nation navigating along the [Mississippi] River there to its settlements: His Majesty has approved the precautions and provisions taken by...
Date: 6 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The King has been apprised of how much information Your Excellency has provided in documents for Dispatches numbers 181 and 184 of the 7th and 30th of September, concerning the American Englishmen's intentions — supported by General Charles Lee, a major general and second in command of their military, and commander-in-chief of the Southern District, and by his agent Mr. Gibson — which, in general...
Date: 24 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I received your Excellency's Letter of date the 26t Instant, acquainting me of a Complaint being made to you, that I detained & examined a Vessel & fired several Shot at her, and that some of the Officers on board His Britannic Majesty's Ship under my Command, asked the Master some improper Questions; about 8 OClock in the Evening of the 21st instant, I fired one Swivel at a Sloop to...
Date: 27 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
In my Letter to your Excellency of Date the 27th April last, I desir'd the favour that you would give me your reasons for seizing the Vessels, belonging to the British Subjects, and putting the Masters with their Crews in confinement, to which have not received an Answer. My Duty as Commander of one of His Britannick Majesty's Ships of War, obliging me to take cognizance of such public Matters as...
Date: 4 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The King has been informed regarding the contents of your letter of May 12, No. 49, concerning the effective and fortunate steps with which you succeeded in seizing eleven English vessels which were engaged in smuggling in your jurisdiction. Your Excellency added that most of them were entirely unfit for sailing and that among these prizes were two that belo11ged to North Americans who have...
Date: 15 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Mui sor. mio y de mi maor Venerazon. Acabo de tener noticias ciertas de la entrada en el Lago1 de una Balandra Guarda costa de S. M. B. montada de 4 canones 12 pedreros y 25 à 30 hombres,2 y para que en un todo, pueda yo caminar arra alado à la voluntad de VE, le vengo tenga à bien remitirme las ordenes por el escrito de lo que devo executar...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Having the honor to command one of His Britannic Majesty's Ships in this River, and having information, that your Excellency has received into your Government, a Body of Armed Men, Enemies to my Sovereign, and that you have suffered them, from the Spanish Territory, to commit depradations on this River, by forcibly seizing upon the Vessels, Property, and Persons of British Subjects, in violation...
Date: 14 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
In my Letter of this day's date I had the honor to acquaint your Excellency with my sentiments, respecting the insults, that have been lately offered to His Britannic Majesty's Subjects in the River Mississippi, by a body of Armed Men, Enemies to the King, my Master, & under your Protection: I therefore conceived, that you had hostile intentions towards my Nation, & thought it proper to...
Date: 14 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I am honored with your Excellency's Letter of yesterday's date, by which you express your surprise, at my conceiving you to be in a state of War against my Sovereign, I think, I have sufficiently explained my reasons in my letter of the 14th. which I was authorized to do, from knowing your Excellency's sentiments, respecting the privileges of the River Mississippi, fully explained in...
Date: 15 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I have had the honor of receiving your Excellencys Letter of the 16th with respect to my making restitution of certain Prizes made by me upon the River Missisipi, to which I must take the Liberty to answer. That the Prize No. 1. is a Negro belonging to a British Subject and came on Board a Vessel now the Property of the American States, but as the Master of that Negro was...
Date: 18 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I have received by the hands of an officer your letter of the 18th. Instant, in return to mine of the 15th. and am sorry to say, that your answer is little satisfactory in so much that you have granted only part of my demand, in consenting to give up part of the British Property, and you have given no answer to my proposal of the other part of the property, being deposited...
Date: 20 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I am exceedingly sorry to find myself under a necessity of troubling Your Excellency with a Reply to the Letter of the 19th. Instant with which You have honoured me.1 My duty impells me to it I therefore hope You will be pleased to reconsider the Cases of the several Claimants of the Prizes No. 2, 3 & 5.
No. 2 is a Vessel1 belonging to British...
Date: 24 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Tho' I have not succeeded in the application's I have already made to your Excellency, in favor of His Britannic Majesty's Loyal Subjects, now in your province, I cannot help mentioning a circumstance, that has come to my knowledge and is of a very serious nature. I am well informed, that several British Seamen have lately been made Prisoners in the Town of New-Orleans, carried off in chains,...
Date: 29 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11