European Theatre from June 1, 1777, to September 30, 1777
I have bought the Due de Chartres for 70,000 L payable at 4, 5 & 6 months but I was obliged to Submit to a Conditional Sale that if before the day of my purchase she should be ready sold in Paris the bargain is Void but if Accts of Such a previous purchase do not Arrive by next Tuesday the bargain with me to be good & as the time betwen this & Tuesday does not admit of information to... Continue Reading
Date: 24 April 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I Wrote You on the 22d Inst wherein I gave You my Oppinion of the Duke De Charters, & that She was not to be Purchased, I am now to inform You She was Purchased Yesterday by Mr Williams for 70 Thousand livres & a Good bargin for She is well worth the Money, this Ship I am told I am to go out in, and as French Property, I will if You Please give You my Oppinion on that head, of wch You... Continue Reading
Date: 24 April 1777
Volume: Volume 9
No 2
Personally appeared before me Peter John Heywood A Master extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery and also Notary and Tabellion public dwelling in Whitehaven in the County of Cumberland William Newell late Boatswain on board the Sloop Jason of and belonging to the Port of Whitehaven the property of Samuel Martin of the same place Esquire Captain Joseph Hutchinson late Commander James... Continue Reading
Date: 25 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Sunday last arrived here the ship Pole, Capt Maddock in 24 days from New-York. On the 12th inst. at 5 P.M. in Lat. 56. Long. 26. she fell in with the Tartar 1 rebel privateer mounting 20 nine pounders, on the main deck 8 four pounders on the quarter deck and 4 four pounders on the forecastle, full of men, supposed 200 at least, had an Image head, and Quarter galleries; all the guns on... Continue Reading
Date: 25 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... Continue Reading
Date: 25 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . The several dispatches containing an account of the conversations You have held with the French Ministers with respect to the orders signified to You in my No 43, have been fully considered; and the assurances given by the French Court are satisfactory to His Majesty; provided They fulfill the several engagements they enter into. They have taken the utmost line that can be allowed them; and... Continue Reading
Date: 25 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . I told him [Lord Weymouth] that. . . without awaiting express orders from my Court, I could give him the Confirmation which he desired concerning the fixed determination of the King, my master, to observe all the provisions included in the Treaties; not only because He regarded them as a strict obligation, but also because He wished to give personally to His Britannic Majesty special proofs... Continue Reading
Date: 25 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Your Letter of the 18th We received, as We gave Our Orders generally to Com: Wickes, we omitted writing in particular to You. We are sensible of Your Spirit, & gallant Behavior as an Officer, & of Your Attachment to your Country as an Americain, & shall with pleasure do justice to Your Character, in Our Letters to the Congress, who we doubt not, will pay due Attention to your Merits.... Continue Reading
Date: 25 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
This day the sloop Betty, Capt. Sinclair, arrived here from Bergen, and brings advice, that on the 24th inst. he fell in with a Fairisle fishingboat; the crew told him they had been on board an American privateer a day or two before, a little to the westward of that island. It seems there are two of them in company, and they were both seen from the Island of North Ronaldshay the evening of the... Continue Reading
Date: 26 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Please to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the Boat under my command with Mr Edwards Midshipman being in the Roads in quest of Men this afternoon (Lieut Bracey being ill with a violent cold by getting wet carrying the last express from the Admiralty to Captain Parry on board the Alderney, and Lieutenant Woodward being in the Country after Men) boarded the Northampton from... Continue Reading
Date: 26 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Please to acquaint my Lords Commrs of the Admty that I have retaken possession of the Brig Northampton loaded with Deals & Battins Thos Hall Master from Wyburg to Lynn & herewith inclose two Commissions from; the Congress the one said to be true & the other false, also Instructions from Gustavus Cunningham to Benjn Bailey Alias Smith the Prize Master,2 & his Journal... Continue Reading
Date: 26 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . we can not deny that the American Privateers which have come into European waters have behaved with much indiscretion, even with regard to us. they are now punished for it and I hope that this act of severity will make their fellows more Circumspect. we can not refuse Them Entry into our ports When they are forced to run into them by emergencies caused by the sea or war, The treaties have... Continue Reading
Date: 26 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Ship the King of Spain a Letter of Marque from Carron in Scotland Laden with 221 Iron Guns for His Catholick Majesty's Service arrived in Ferrol the 23d Instant with the Ship Emperor of Germany belonging to and bound from Bristol to the Island of Dominica, and the Bay of Honduras with the Articles specified in the List I have the Honor to inclose. This Vessel was taken the 15th Instant by the... Continue Reading
Date: 26 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Lord Weymouth has this Morning received a Letter from Mr Elsden, dated Lynn the 25th Inst giving Account that the Patty, John Green, Master, bound from that Port to Wyburgh, was taken on the 21st Inst in the Lattitude of 55.22. North, and Longitude of 3.20. East from the Meridian of London, at 50 Leagues from the Spurn head N.E. by East, by a Rebel Sloop, or Cutter, mounting 16. Carriage Guns,... Continue Reading
Date: 27 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Monday 28th
at Portsmouth
AM up top Gallt yards Ansd the signal and attended guard boarded severl Vessels coming in one of them by our own people from the Neptune Tender the Brig Grace from Carolina Bd to Amsterdam2 Recd by the Duke hoy Jno Cummins Master Beer 2768 Galls in 26 Butts 260 Iron Hoops —
Date: 28 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The following Ships are taken by the Sturdy Beggar Privateer, Capt. Holling,2 on the 1st of June [sic July], in Lat. 34, Long. 54, they having sailed with the West-India Convoy the 16th of June in Company with near 100 Sail of Ships, but parted Company the 18th in the Night, viz. the Christiana, Dan. Dourick, of the Island of St. Vincent's; the Cornwall, Hardcastle, from Antigua for... Continue Reading
Date: 28 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Always preoccupied with never causing a delay in the King's order, because of rumors of an impending war, I have given orders to all of my Ships to make an inventory of all the provisions that remain on board and to replenish themselves for three months. I have informed the intendant so that he can give orders for the provisions, and also the captains to have the necessary provisions for their... Continue Reading
Date: 28 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 27th Instant acquainting them with the Advices Lord Wemouth had received from Mr Elsdon of the Capture of several Vessels in the North Sea by a Rebel Privatier Sloop or Cutter called the Pegasus Captain Allen, but supposed to be the Vessel commanded by Cunningham, which lately sailed from Dunkirk; I am commanded by... Continue Reading
Date: 30 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[1777] July the 30th four more broke out at 12 oClock in the day one got off clear and the [other] three was re-taken and brought back and put into the Black hole viz Christr Cleark, William Tryon, John Cockren Boatswain of the Yankey from Boston there [they] was kept for 40 days half starved allow'd neither bed nor beding to lie on but the soft side of a good Plank
Date: 30 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . I am writing to Comte d'Orvilliers, who informed me as did you of the Privateer General Mifflin of Boston putting into Brest, which, according to the examination which has been made, proved to need some repairs, that I expect, that as soon as this Ship is set right again, she will go to sea and away from our Coasts. You did well to pay no attention to the proposal that has been made to you... Continue Reading
Date: 30 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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