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Your Excellency: After warning me that he did so of his own accord and without orders from his Court, the English Ambassador spoke to me about the frequency with which ships of his Colonies come to our Ports and carry on their usual trade. He indicated how convenient it would be to issue orders forbidding this assistance, as the Portuguese Ministry has now done with respect to that Kingdom. I...
Date: 19 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... In said Letter [Masserano's of September 6] and in the one numbered 343 dated 10 September, Y. E. communicates the maritime armaments increasing in those [British] Ports, 36 ships of the line having been ordered thus far for readying. Y. E. has reason to mistrust such extraordinary and expensive measures, which that Power would not take without serious motives in circumstances of great...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... Even admitting that Gen Howe might take possession of New York this year, he could not drive inland, and the only difference in the situation of the Regiments which were confined to Boston by the Rebels last winter is that they now have more ships to control the sea and receive the provisions sent to them here....
It is said that Gens Carleton and Burgoyne have written from Canada the...
Date: 4 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6