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...This background2 has led the King to consider the matter; and reflecting that closing his Ports to the Americans will be followed by their declaration of enmity toward Spain, and by the seizure of our ships on all the Seas indiscriminately, leaving us without the least expedient for a reparation or even to punish this attack: His Majesty has decided that these same Americans be...
Date: 20 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
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
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