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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19383
Date: 1976 May 06 - 1985 May 02
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
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Folio 280: E. Hay to Earl of Egremont. No longer any need for the mania for secrecy...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/55/99
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This record is about the Folio 280: E. Hay to Earl of Egremont. No longer any need for the mania for secrecy... dating from 1762 Apr 27 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1762 Apr 27
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Folio 280: E. Hay to Earl of Egremont. No longer any need for the mania for secrecy displayed by the Portuguese ministers; but he stresses this was only done in order to preserve their neutrality as long as possible, and they have always been perfectly frank and honest with him. His classifying his letters as secret, most secret, etc., only done out of deference to Portuguese government, and they can now be produced in Parliament if it should prove necessary. Any military assistance given to Portugal at this time, `will have its proper weight in all our commercial negotiations for the future, and the more effectual, the more it will operate in this respect.' Spanish dilatoriness has given the Portuguese time to mobilise an army of 45,000 men. The `dark designs of our enemies' are not planned in Spain, but `in the Cabinet of Versailles, from whence if anywhere, they are to be discovered.'.
Date and place: 1762 Apr 27 Lisbon.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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