Item
Duplicate of SP 78/278 f.252 [see also SP 78/f.250].
Catalogue reference: SP 78/279/3
Date: 1769 nd
Duplicate of SP 78/278 f.252 [see also SP 78/f.250].
Item
Folio 5: Rochford to Shelburne. France and Spain have neither the desire nor ability...
Catalogue reference: SP 78/272/3
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- SP 78/272/3
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1767 Jan 7
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Folio 5: Rochford to Shelburne. France and Spain have neither the desire nor ability to make war at the moment. Merci, in a dispatch, has quoted Choiseul as saying his object is to humour (ménager) the English and that in 1770 France will have the best army, a respectable navy and money in the bank. Rochford thinks these prospects overrated and encloses details of a new bank [f.8], of which the court will take advantage. Laborde has been ordered to send 600,000 livres to Breteuil in Sweden, to use in case an extraordinary diet is assembled.
Date and place: 1767 Jan 7 Paris.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Secret. Quotations in French.
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