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 288: Stormont to Weymouth. He reports a long conversation with Vergennes about...
Catalogue reference: SP 78/301/119
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Folio 288: Stormont to Weymouth. He reports a long conversation with Vergennes about French and British arming and Portugal, covering ground already included in his earlier dispatches. Both sides were arming defensively and wanted peace. Neither would start a war. Vergennes had received alarming reports from England. Stormont said he received the same from those in France, who wanted war. Vergennes said Portugal was planning to attack Spain. As proof he said that Pombal had set up a field hospital.
Date and place: 1777 Feb 26 Paris.
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