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I have the Honor to inclose to Your Excellency a Copy of some late Orders which the Earl of Rochford has, by His Majesty's Command, transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Your Excellency will do right to make a fair & confidential Communication of the Substance of them to The Prince of Orange & the Dutch Ministers, who cannot be surprized that, at this Conjuncture, when...
Date: 7 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I think it necessary to inform you, that the Commanders of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels sent, & to be sent to the Coast of North America, are, & will be instructed, in their respective Stations, to intercept & seize any British or Foreign Ships which may be found carrying on an illicit Trade, & which may have on board prohibited Goods and Merchandize, or Warlike Stores...
Date: 7 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It becomes indispensably necessary, in the present Conjuncture, to be particularly attentive & severe with regard to the Counterband Trade of our Colonies in North America; The Commanders therefore of The King's Ships & Vessels, stationed off that Coast, are instructed, in their respective Stations, to intercept & seize any British or Foreign Ships which may be found carrying on an...
Date: 7 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
His Majesty, Sir, sees with Pleasure the Readiness of the Senate of Hamburgh to fulfill his just Expectations upon the Subject of the Memorial which you thought it expedient to present. You will take the first Opportunity of acquainting Syndick Sillem & Senator Dormer, that His Majesty is perfectly satisfied with the respectfull Attention & friendly Behaviour of the Senate, on this...
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am directed to signify to Your Lordships The King's Commands that Henry Johnson, El. Downour, David Hall, and John Cochran, who acted as Officers aboard the Rebel Privateer call'd the Yankee of Boston, be properly secured for the present aboard such Vessel belonging to His Majesty as your Lordships may find most convenient. But with regard to the Crew, consisting of 17. Men & 2 Negro Slaves...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lords, I send Your Lordships inclosed Copy of a Memorial, I have received from Count Welderen Envoy Extraordy & Pleny from the States severely as also Copies of three Papers ref erred to therein. This Memorial represents, that the Vessel ,called the Twee Gebroeders, Henry Torhorst Master, bound from Rotterdam to St Eustatia, & laden with Cannon, Gun powder, Chests of Arms, Provisions...
Date: 7 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I am commanded to signify to Your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure, that You give immediate Directions for Transport Vessels to be provided of sufficient Tonnage to receive on Board about 2700 Infantry, and to convey the same to such Parts of North America as shall hereafter be specified — Allowance of Tonnage for the Men Women Servants and Camp Equipage must be made in the same Proportion...
Date: 15 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Having submitted to The King Your Lordships Letter of the 1st, and Mr Stephens's of the 7th Inst, respecting the Nine American Prisoners brought into the Harbour of Portsmouth, by Capt [Stair] Douglas of the Squirrel, I am to signify to Your Lordships His Majesty's Commands, that these People be detained in safe Custody, as was directed in my Letter of the 2d Deer, with regard to the Men brought...
Date: 7 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The King's Assent having been this Day given to "an Act of Parliament to empower His Majesty to secure and detain Persons charged with or suspected of the Crime of High Treason committed in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy" and there being a Clause which makes it "lawfull for His Majesty by Warrant under His Sign Manual to...
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The Attorney & Sollicitor General having pursuant to His Majesty's Commands transmitted to me Draughts of Two Warrants, the one for confining certain Prisoners at Plymouth, the other at Portsmouth, I transmit Copies thereof to Your Lordships, & am to remark to You, that the Description of the Places specified in the Draughts being taken from Your Letter to me of the 6th Instt, the...
Date: 12 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have laid before The King Your Lordships Letter & Inclosures relative to the Seizure of a Dutch Dagger called the Eendraght with a Cargo of 1500 Barrels of Gunpowder. The Quantity being so large and some Suspicion being suggested by the Master of the Wells Cutter that the whole was destined for His Majesty's Rebellious Colonies, it may be adviseable to direct the Vessel to be detained for a...
Date: 26 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
His Majesty has heard with pleasure, that their High Mightinesses have fulfilled his expectation; that they have recalled their Governor; that the insult is disavowed, 2 and that orders are dispatched to the governors and commanders of the colonies of their High Mightinesses in the West-Indies, to observe strictly the placarts and orders against the exportation of military .stores to...
Date: 10 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
In addition to the Vessels engaged and prepared to sail for the last Division of Hessian Chasseurs as soon as We learn that they are in readiness to embark at Boemerleh, I am to instruct your Lordships to give Orders for the Conveyance of 200 Tons of Hessian Stores which are left in Depot at that Place. The Hatchway of the Vessel destined to this Service should be large, as the Casks, in which...
Date: 11 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
His Majesty having been pleased by Warrant under His Sign Manual to appoint places of Confinement at Portsmouth & at Plymouth pursuant to the late Act of Parliament "to empower His Majesty to secure & detain Persons charged with or suspected of the Crime of High Treason committed in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy" I am...
Date: 23 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Advices having been received at Lord Dartmouth's Office that the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania in open Rebellion against The King, have been for some time past preparing a number of Armed Craft in the form of floating Batteries for the purpose of annoying and attacking the Kings Ships that maybe sent into that River, and that they have also prepared and sunk in the Channel of the River Machines for...
Date: 14 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir, Mr Burrow arrived at Lord Dartmouths Office on the 13th Inst and your dispatches were immediately laid before The King. ー
As soon as it was seen that the New England provinces meditated open Rebellion and Revolt, the Security of Nova Scotia became an Object of The King's care and solicitude; directions have been repeatedly given to the Commander in Chief to attend to it, and the...
Date: 16 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2