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In Cyphers
The Army of England in America consists of forty thousand Men and their fleet of one hundred Ships, of which but two are of seventy four Guns. Their Officers both by Sea and Land, and Engineers are good; they are well supplied with Artillery and Stores. Consider then, Sir, how diffucult it will be for the Americans to resist such forces, "if they are not assisted by France with...
Date: 21 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In compliance with your request at our interview of yesterday, I send you inclosed copies of my commission, and an extract from my instructions which will fully satisfy you of my being authorized to make the purchases Ihave applied to you for. To understand this extract, it is necessary to inform you that I was ordered to make my first application to the ministers and to procure the supplies...
Date: 20 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have considered the letter you honored me with the 22d, and am of the opinion that your proposals for regulating the prices of goods and stores are just and equitable. The generous confidence you place in the virtue and justice of my constituents affords me the greatest pleasure, and gives me the most flattering prospect of success in the undertaking to their, as well as your, satisfaction, and...
Date: 24 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Since the stores and goods have been engaged and getting ready, I have made inquiry of several merchants respecting the charter of vessels for America generally, without mentioning what their cargoes should consist of, and have written in the same way to some of my correspondents, and in the whole, I find I shall not be able to provide them as early as is necessary at any rate, and I fear not...
Date: 19 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I received yours of last Evening and should have waited on you this Morning but for a Violent cold attended with a slight Fever which confines Me to my Chamber. I had before the receipt of Yours the disagreeable Intelligence of the Return of the Amphitrite into L'Orient and of the orders from Court forbidding her or any other of the Vessels to proceed to America. Your Chagrin and vexation on this...
Date: 6 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have been for some time past very Apprehensive of the risque in sending Shipps direct to the Continent of America. at so late a season and with such valuable Cargoes; they must if they go direct arrive on the Coast of America, in the midst of the Cruising Season of the Enemy's Shipps & as the ship Therese has on board, between sixty & seventy Thousand Livres of Goods, purchased by the...
Date: 24 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I find myself obliged to urge you to give most prompt and serious attention to the ideas I communicated to you some days ago on the subject of a loan for America. Without this aid, it is impossible for us to answer for events, the outcome of which is nevertheless of almost infinite importance. Relying on your ability and on your zeal for the cause of the Americans and knowing how great and...
Date: 24 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8