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Folio 229: Stormont to Weymouth. Maurepas declared `in the most positive manner',...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/303/97

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SP 78/303/97
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1777 July 23
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Folio 229: Stormont to Weymouth. Maurepas declared `in the most positive manner', that there was no intention of sending warships to convoy home the Newfoundland fishermen. He is sending one 74 gun ship to Martinique, which should cause no alarm. In a private conversation with a friend of Stormont's Maurepas said he wanted to preserve the peace but that his position was difficult, because he had so much intrigue and madness to contend with but that luckily the king was steady and strongly for peace. The king, Vergennes and himself were, perhaps the only persons in France who sincerly wanted peace. Maurepas spoke angrily about the Greyhound cutter, showed that he knew of Sartine's ambitious plans and showed displeasure at Spain's apparent determination to settle her dispute with Portugal without the interference of any other power. He did not believe the news about America from Bordeaux.

Date and place: 1777 July 23 Paris.

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