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diff --git a/41833-h/41833-h.htm b/41833-h/41833-h.htm index c32d2ae..5f9eaaf 100644 --- a/41833-h/41833-h.htm +++ b/41833-h/41833-h.htm @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume V, by Jared Sparks. @@ -163,49 +163,7 @@ div.fn { </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Diplomatic Correspondence of the -American Revolution, Vol. V (of 12), by Various - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. V (of 12) - -Author: Various - -Editor: Jared Sparks - -Release Date: January 13, 2013 [EBook #41833] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIPLOMATIC CORR AMER REVOL, VOL V *** - - - - -Produced by Frank van Drogen, Julia Neufeld and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41833 ***</div> <h1> THE<br /> @@ -1907,7 +1865,7 @@ sail from St Helens, and the Resolution as well as the Invincible of seventyfour, intended as part of the squadron, the crews of the two last vessels refused to sail until they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> should be paid their wages, and have received their shares -of the prize of the Protée. The eleventh of the month, the +of the prize of the Protée. The eleventh of the month, the Resolution, Commodore Ogle, set sail to join Admiral Graves, the crew having at length consented to serve, when they saw their ship surrounded by other vessels, ready to @@ -2405,7 +2363,7 @@ sixty, and has been lately at fiftyfive. The advantage of this plan will be greatest to the landholder, inasmuch as the national debt, including certificates and foreign demands, does not now exceed five millions sterling, which -is but a trifling sum compared with the £200,000,000 +is but a trifling sum compared with the £200,000,000 sterling due from Great Britain.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span>Another benefit resulting from it, is a supply of five millions @@ -3182,7 +3140,7 @@ destinations, and afterwards to conduct under his convoy, destined for the Mediterranean, with the same vigilance, through the Strait of Gibraltar, as far as the latitude of Malaga. The second convoy will sail the 14th of July, -with the frigate Höken, under the command of the Major<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> +with the frigate Höken, under the command of the Major<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> and Chevalier Samuel Orrskiold, who is to convoy with the same care the merchant ships as far as Cape Finisterre.</p> @@ -4738,7 +4696,7 @@ I have the honor to be, &c.</p> <p class="signature">JOHN ADAMS. </p> -<p><em>P. S.</em> The Chargé des Affaires of Denmark has notified +<p><em>P. S.</em> The Chargé des Affaires of Denmark has notified to the Ministry at Stockholm, the 28th of April, that this Court had acceded to the armed neutrality, to which the Empress of Russia had invited it, and he has requested, @@ -5147,7 +5105,7 @@ permanent union, I esteem myself happy to see myself enrolled among men, who have your courage and your principles."</p> -<p>On the 13th of April, the British frigate the Hyæna, +<p>On the 13th of April, the British frigate the Hyæna, Captain Thompson, arrived at Gibraltar at midnight, having escaped the fire of three batteries, three chebecs of twentyeight guns each, and a frigate of thirtytwo. @@ -5939,7 +5897,7 @@ whether successfully or not.</p> Toulon, of the 8th of this month, contains the following details. "Orders have arrived here from Court, to send out into the Road, as soon as may be, the ships of the line, -the Zélé and the Marseillois; but as the destination of +the Zélé and the Marseillois; but as the destination of these two ships is kept extremely secret, we exhaust ourselves in conjectures concerning the object of the operations, which they are ordered to execute. Some will have @@ -5983,7 +5941,7 @@ of the Count de Guichen, that the arrival of his squadron in the seas of the Antilles, was sufficient to give us there a decided superiority. We cannot, moreover, but applaud the prudence of M. de Guichen and M. de -Bouillé, in not sacrificing, perhaps in vain, a great many +Bouillé, in not sacrificing, perhaps in vain, a great many lives, to expel the English from the island of St Lucia, these two Generals having, without doubt, designs more important, and the success of which appears to them more @@ -6373,7 +6331,7 @@ and will not fear that the enemy should oppose his junction with that of Brest."</p> <p><em>Toulon, 10th of May.</em> "The order, which the King's -ships, the Zélé and the Marseillois, of seventyfour guns, +ships, the Zélé and the Marseillois, of seventyfour guns, have received unexpectedly to sail, gives place to several conjectures. The most probable is, that they are to join the division of French vessels, which are in the bay of @@ -6859,7 +6817,7 @@ to think of preserving them than of attempting elsewhere expeditions, that would weaken them.</p> <p>The last letters from the gold coast of Africa contain the -following details. "One of our out-forts, called Succondée, +following details. "One of our out-forts, called Succondée, has been attacked sometime since by a French frigate, of forty guns. She cast anchor in the Bay within cannon-shot of the fort, which was falling in ruins, defended @@ -6958,7 +6916,7 @@ of the West Indies; in fine, the foreign vessels manned with crews of their own nation, &c."</p> <p><em>April 21st, 1780.</em> "It happened that the French privateer, -the Spring, commanded by Captain John Huë, +the Spring, commanded by Captain John Huë, and mounted with four guns, which had anchored in the Road of Helvoetsluys, put to sea in company with some Dutch vessels, bound to the Greenland Fishery. Three @@ -7935,7 +7893,7 @@ Nova Scotia, and East and West Florida. That New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, have not cost Great Britain a farthing, and that the whole expense of the former is no more than -£1,700,000, and when we deduct the £700,000, extravagantly +£1,700,000, and when we deduct the £700,000, extravagantly expended in building a key at Halifax, we can only call it one million." He concludes, "that posterity will feel that America was not only worth all that was spent @@ -9104,14 +9062,14 @@ by the powers at war.</p> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="guns4"> <tr><td align="left"><small>Vessels.</small></td><td align="center"><small>Guns.</small></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Protée,</td><td align="right">64</td><td align="left">Taken by Admiral Digby,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Protée,</td><td align="right">64</td><td align="left">Taken by Admiral Digby,</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Fortune,</td><td align="right">42</td><td align="left">Taken by Admiral Rowley,</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Blanche,</td><td align="right">36</td><td align="left">Taken by Admiral Rowley,</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Prudente,</td><td align="right">36</td><td align="left">Ruby, Everett,</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Danaë,</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="left">Experiment, Wallace,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Danaë,</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="left">Experiment, Wallace,</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Sartine,</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="left">Admiral Vernon,</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Licorne,</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="left">Admiral Vernon,</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Alcmène,</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="left">Proserpine, Sutton,</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Alcmène,</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="left">Proserpine, Sutton,</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Oiseau,</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="left">Apollo, Pownal,</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Adventure,</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="left">Admiral Arbuthnot,</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Pilote,</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="left">Commodore Reynolds,</td></tr> @@ -9173,7 +9131,7 @@ by the powers at war.</p> <tr><td align="left">Monsieur,</td><td align="right">40</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Duc de Cogny,</td><td align="right">36</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Belhune,</td><td align="right">30</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Ménagère,</td><td align="right">30</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Ménagère,</td><td align="right">30</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Hercule,</td><td align="right">30</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Comte d'Artois,</td><td align="right">28</td></tr> <tr><td align="left">Lis,</td><td align="right">28</td></tr> @@ -9507,7 +9465,7 @@ of the United Provinces.</p> Indies, and established under the jurisdiction of this State, give respectfully to understand, that, to their great regret, the petitioners have learned, by the way of a ship, lately -arrived from Curaçoa, the unheard of ill treatment exercised +arrived from Curaçoa, the unheard of ill treatment exercised by the English in taking the barques belonging to the subjects of their High Mightinesses, which trade with the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[244]</a></span> French possessions in the said countries, and which, loaded @@ -10935,7 +10893,7 @@ were rich enough, and which she sent into Lisbon."</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[282]</a></span>Thus the French and Spanish ships at Cadiz amount to thirty of the line. This fleet, combined with that of -Brest, and with the Active, the Guerrier and the Cæsar, +Brest, and with the Active, the Guerrier and the Cæsar, gone to convoy merchantmen to a certain latitude, and to a ship of one hundred and ten guns, from Rochfort, and all commanded by the Count d'Estaing, would give a good @@ -10963,7 +10921,7 @@ eight ships of the line, two of fifty guns, and six frigates, to wit, the Justice, and the Princess Sophia Frederick, commandant Krieger, of seventyfour; the Jutland, and the Prince Frederick, Commandants de Kaas and Lous, of -seventy; the Droit d'Indigénat and the Wagrie, Captains +seventy; the Droit d'Indigénat and the Wagrie, Captains Gormar and Bille, of sixtyfour; the Dannebrog and the Holstein, Captains Ellebracht and U. C. Kaas, of sixty; the Mars and the Greenland, Captains Lutken and Knudsen, of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[283]</a></span> @@ -13721,7 +13679,7 @@ thousand florins which the Prince enjoys annually as First Member of the Council of State, and the dividends of the company of the East Indies, amount to three hundred thousand florins a year. The Stadtholder pays neither imposts -nor taxes, excepting those which they call in Holland <i lang="nl" xml:lang="nl">Odinarés +nor taxes, excepting those which they call in Holland <i lang="nl" xml:lang="nl">Odinarés Verponding</i>, which is raised in this Province upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[358]</a></span> the lands and upon the houses, &c. The body guards and the aid-de-camp of his Most Serene Highness are entertained @@ -16721,7 +16679,7 @@ Otton de Schack-Reventlaw, Privy Counsellor, Knight of the Order of the Elephant, &c.; M. Jean Henri d'Eichstedt, Privy Counsellor, Governor of his Royal Highness, the Hereditary Prince, Knight of the Order of the Elephant, -&c.; and M. André Pierre, Count de Bernstorff, +&c.; and M. André Pierre, Count de Bernstorff, Privy Counsellor, Secretary of State of the Department of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_436" id="Page_436">[436]</a></span> Foreign Affairs, Director of the Royal German Chancery, and Knight of the Order of the Elephant, &c.; who, after @@ -18327,7 +18285,7 @@ support of liberty. The new taxes consist in an additional duty of five per cent upon all articles subject to the duty of excise, except malt, soap, and candles, and green leather, valued at</p> -<p class="head">£150,000 sterling.</p> +<p class="head">£150,000 sterling.</p> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="taxes"> @@ -19405,381 +19363,6 @@ p. 493.</p></div> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Diplomatic Correspondence of the -American Revolution, Vol. V (of 12), by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIPLOMATIC CORR AMER REVOL, VOL V *** - -***** This file should be named 41833-h.htm or 41833-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/8/3/41833/ - -Produced by Frank van Drogen, Julia Neufeld and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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