European Theatre from June 1, 1777, to September 30, 1777
Agreeable to instructions I on the Evening of the 17th July made Sail from Dunkirk and proceeded with Caution to the Noward for some time. On the succeeding Eveing we saw a Frigate which gave us chase and fired severall Guns at us and on the following day were chased by another, both of which we outsailed. from thence we proceeded into the No Sea, and passing severall vessells the people were so... Continue Reading
Date: 24 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
You pointed out to me, Sir, in your letter of the rst of this month that the Anglo-American privateer the General Wisslin [General Mifflin], Captain William Day, had entered the roads of Port Louis under the pretext of taking in provisions and replenishing her fresh water, and that you had sent her an order to get underway within 24 hours; I have sent word to you that in the action which you had... Continue Reading
Date: 25 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Yours of the 22d Inst came Safe to hand, till wch You was in my debt, & beleave me it is with Pleasure I recd Yours, the Corespondance is not yet broke between us, therefore let this be A Caution to You, take care You dont neglet or forget me, & rest assured I will with Pleasure write my friend Johnson & let him know how matters go with me — I have now the Pleasure to informe You of... Continue Reading
Date: 25 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have received the Honour of your Lordship's Letters No 18 & No 19, & have explained very fully to M: Florida blanca the Transactions relative to the Northampton Prize: I likewise laid before him such Advices as I had received from Cadiz & from Ferrol, distinguishing those to which I gave Credit, from those which I had only reason to suspect. For I had heard that there was strong... Continue Reading
Date: 25 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... Continue Reading
Date: 26 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Should have wrote you eir this, I had no subject to write upon, knowing you have enough else to do besides reading a Scrawl, which signified nothing. — Yours of the 19th Inst came safe to hand, have to say I have done tolerable well with the French Sailors, many of them finding I would pay them no money have decamped others (some few) have gone on board, Waiting for the orders from Court. I wait... Continue Reading
Date: 26 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
By &c.
Whereas we think fit that the Oliver Cromwell Privatier lately taken by His Majts Sloop Beaver 2 shall, if found fit for the Service, be purchased for His Majesty, and be employed under your command; You are hereby required and directed to cause the said Ship (if found fit for the Service) to be purchased for His Majesty accordingly, upon the best & cheapest terms you... Continue Reading
Date: 27 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I did not lose a Moment in Communicating to Your Excellency some important Information which I have just received from an English Gentleman who is arrived from Nantes. Two Ships of the Jamaica fleet, which have been taken by American Privateers, have been carried into the said Port; But in order to elude the Orders given by this Court on the last such occasion they were allowed to come in... Continue Reading
Date: 27 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I received the letter dated today with which Your Excellency has honored me. I can only thank you for the information that you were willing to Communicate to me concerning the two prizes which must have been disguised as American vessels Bound from St. Eustatius, as well as the report of the one which is Supposedly laden with prohibited Merchandise for North America. I waited on M. de Sartine in... Continue Reading
Date: 27 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Account of Beef & Bread from Murloue [Morlaix] from
the 27 of June to the 27 of August [1777]
Beef
———
5663
Pounds
Bread
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3841
lb
Date: 27 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . We have nothing new to communicate. You have no doubt been informed of the two West Indiamen arrived to Nantes by 2 Boston Privateers.
Capn [William] Day is upon a Cruize Since 10 or 12 days — a Swedish Ship come in yesterday has met him off Ushant with the American Success Capn [John] Fletcher cruizing in Company; good luck may attend them: if any thing comes in shall let you know... Continue Reading
Date: 27 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have the Honor to acquaint Your Lordship that the Revenge a Rebel Privateer mounting fourteen Guns and ten Swivels commanded by Cunningham who took the Harwich Packet,2 arrived in Ferrol the 23d Instant, where she is fixing a new Main Mast and Bowsprit, and taking in Provisions, without any Objections being made to her Stay there notwithstanding the Assurances on that Subject lately... Continue Reading
Date: 27 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having received a Letter from Vice Admiral Young, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the Leeward Islands, dated the 12th June last,2 wherein he acquaints Us that an Action had been brought against Captain Dumeresq, of His Majesty's Ship the Portland, for having taken the Men from the Sloop Hammond, one of the Vessels mentioned in the Admiral's Letters of the 8th... Continue Reading
Date: 28 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Lord George Germain, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State having acquainted us by his Letter of the 21st inst that as the issue of the present Campaign in North America cannot be known here in time to prepare for the operation of another, if another shall become necessary, His Majesty has come to a Resolution of making every preparation for the further prosecution of the War that... Continue Reading
Date: 28 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I receiv'd by Captain Brine on the 31st Ultimo your several Letters of the 12th June, all which with their several inclosures were immediately communicated to my Lords Commissrs of the Admty, and Copies & extracts of such of them as were judged proper to be laid before His Majesty transmitted to the Secretarys of State for that purpose.
Their Lordships command me to acquaint You that... Continue Reading
Date: 28 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Restoration, Robbins, from Quebec to Oporto, in Ballast, is taken by the Oliver Cromwell Privateer.1 The Captain was put on board a French Ship and landed at Bourdeaux. Capt. Robbins the Day before he was taken, fell in with a Privateer of 10 Guns and full of Men, which he engaged some Time, and beat her off, though he mounted 10 Guns, and had only 14 People on board, Half of whom... Continue Reading
Date: 28 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Sir — We conclude by this orders are recd for permitting you to depart for America on Condition of not Cruising in these Seas nor returning into the Ports of France with the reprisal. We therefore desire you to put yr Ship into the proper State for Sailing & to Supply her with the Provisions necessary for the Voyage. We must wait to know from you what quantity of Heavy Articles the reprisal... Continue Reading
Date: 28 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . I come now, M. le Comte, to the details of the conversation that I had yesterday morning with Lord Suffolk. I went over with him the various matters upon which you had had the goodness to give me clarification, and the Instructions which it remained for me to implement. I spoke again of Mr. Cunningham, and I gave equally plausible reasons for both his detention and his Release. As for his... Continue Reading
Date: 29 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
A Letter from Douglas, in the Isle of Man, dated Aug. 20, says, "We have at length got time to breathe a little, and recover ourselves from the panic we were thrown into by the number of American privateers which for some time infested this island. The effect it had on some people here was very strange; they were going to sell off their houses and goods, and retire to the Continent. One estate... Continue Reading
Date: 29 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Being persuaded of your Lordships tender feelings, flowing from those truly humane principles which have ever distinguish'd Britains from the more barbarous Nations; I cannot but flatter my self with hope of your Lordships immediate interposition in behalf of the American prisoners, who are now Actually perishing with hunger,
My Lords, the relation of Facts I humbly beg leave to lay before your... Continue Reading
Date: 29 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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