Volume 12
Disposition de M.M. Les Officiers dans les batteries et Sur les Gaillards pour le Service de L’Artillerie
1ere. Batterie
M.M. de Beauquaire & de Ribies1 Commandants la Batterie
M. de Costebelle2 à la seconde division venant de L’Arrière, 4. pieces
M. D’Orsin3 au premier poste de L’avant, 4 pieces
M. de Combault4 garde... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Nous pensons que Vous Serés instruit de la Prise que fit le Celebre Cunningham, Commandant la Corvette la Vengeance,1 apartenante à L’honnorable Congrès des Etats unis de L’Amèrique, en Decembre 1777. du Navire Français le Gratieux, Capne Augustin Letournois,2 allant de Londres, à la Corogne avec des marchandises des manufactures Angloises. Ce Capne: ... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
LONDON.
Extract of a letter from Whitehaven, April 26.
“We are all in a bustle here, from the late insolent attack of the provincial privateer’s men.1 I hope it will rouse us from our lethargy. Every precaution is now taking to give our unnatural enemies a proper reception, should they pay us another visit. Advice is this night arrived, that after plundering Lord Selkirk’s seat, they... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
LIVERPOOL.
The Prince and Liberty, an American brig from Cayan from Carolina, loaded with wine, rum, medicines, and dry goods, took by the Pole, Captain Maddocks, belonging to this port is brought into New York.1
The Sally, Smith, of this port,2 upon a cruize in the West Indies has taken an American vessel loaded with lumber, and sunk a privateer of 12 guns and another ship belonging... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Dear Sir—I write this letter with the concurrence and advice of Lord Mulgrave and Sir Hugh Palliser, who are now with me.1
We think it absolutely necessary that the fleet now going out in pursuit of Monsieur d’Estaing should not winter abroad, as we have no certainty where their ultimate destination may be and therefore can have no certain means of supplying them with stores and... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Il m’a été demandé de quelques Ports, Monsieur, de quelle maniere il devoit en usé à présent à l’egard des Corsaires Américains qui pourroient y venir, et à l’egard de leurs prises ; j’y mande en réponse qu’au moyen du Traité de commerce et d’amitié qui a été Fait avec les Etats unis de l’amerique Septentrionale, il ne peut y avoir de difficulté à recevoir ces Batiments dans nos Ports, et que l’... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
I have communicated to my Lords Commissrs: of the Admty your letter of yesterday, transmitting one which Lord Suffolk has receiv’d from Whitehaven giving an account of the Ranger an American Privatier being upon that Coast1; And I am to acquaint you that His Majesty’s Ships the Stag and the Boston of 28 Guns each, and the Heart of Oak of 20 Guns are all at this time in those... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Whereas the Vice Adml. Lord Vist. Howe Commr. in Chief of His Majts Ships in No. America hath received our directions in case any number of the Rebels Ships of Force should sail from the Coast of No. America to dispatch a sufficient Force after them the way he may have reason to believe they are gone and if he should not be able to... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Whereas, by our Commission dated 30th of January last we have appointed you Commander in Chief of His Majestys Ships & Vessels employed & to be employed at Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, and in the Seas adjacent & intend that you shall proceed thither in His Majestys Ship the Prince of Wales in order to relieve Admiral Young1 in the Command of the said Ships... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
By &ca.
Secret Instructions for John Montagu Esqr., Vice Admiral of the Red & Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s Ships & Vessels employed at and about the Island of Newfoundland &ca.
Whereas the French King contrary to the most solemn assurances and in subversion of the Law of Nations hath signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with certain Persons... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
His Majesty has desired me to suggest to your Lordship the necessity of sending an extraordinary packet boat, if such a one can be had, immediately to inform Ld Howe of the fleet that is coming out to his assistance; it is very unfortunate that we have no frigate to spare for this service, but if the fate of the nation depended upon it, it is out of our power at this time to execute... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
The Gentlemen Lets of the Navy on board the Ship Providence beg leave to present their Compliments to Capt Whipple, and relying upon those former instances of his attention to their wants flatter themselves he will permit a Representation, how necessary it is to support the Character of Officers on board the American Navy and without Dress which in this Country2 is an... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
I understand there is some dispatches from the Governour & Council of Virginia lately come to you Gentlemen at Paris. if there shou’d be, a Letter for me by the same conveyance, please to have it put in the post office for Bordeaux—and if you have a Virginia news paper to spare, I shall be much oblige to you for one.1
There is a Captain Richard Garde here who’s Vessell is detained... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
This day Cloudy; the people impolyed in geting the Stores on Board in Order to drop down, the pilot came on Board & we drop’d down oposite the Exchange.
Date: 2 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
“The ship Earl of Chester, John Harvey Master,1 being on her voyage from this city to Newfoundland, fell in with a new vessel on the 30th ult. about 150 leagues to the westward of Cape Clear, who after Capt. Harvey had fired a few guns at her, struck; she proves to be the Mary and Fanny of Virginia, from Williamsburgh, bound to Bourdeaux with tobacco, and is valued at 8000l. and this... Continue Reading
Date: 3 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
[Secret]
By &c
Whereas Intelligence hath been received of the sailing of a Squadron of French Men of War from Toulon, consisting of Eleven Ships of the Line, one of fifty Guns, & six Frigates, having on board, besides their Complement of Seamen and Marines, one Thousand Land Forces, and, from the Warlike Implements put on board & other circumstances, it is supposed the said Squadron... Continue Reading
Date: 3 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
By &ca.
Secret Instructions for the Honble Samuel Barrington Rear Admiral of the Red &ca.
Whereas the French King contrary to the most solemn assurances and in subversion of the Law of Nations hath signed a Treaty of Amity & Commerce with certain Persons employed by His Majesty’s revolted Subjects in North America, and it being His Majesty’s firm... Continue Reading
Date: 3 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
In a former Letter, you wrote Us, that you would send Us the Invoices &ca of the Goods shipped on the public Account, if we thought it necessary.1 We wrote for those which would answer for the Money, We had advanced to You.2 The Reason given in your’s of the 18th. for refusing it, does not appear to Us, at all sufficient. If it be unavoidable to... Continue Reading
Date: 3 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
In my letter by the last packet I had the honour of relating to your Lordship at large, the proceedings at this place, in the case of the Brig Illustrious: as that affair has continued under the management of Mr. [Robert] Walpole, I have only for the present to add; that that vessel now appears to have been taken by the Dean, a frigate of Philadelphia, mounting 36 guns, one Nicolson... Continue Reading
Date: 3 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
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