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Folio 64: Stormont to Weymouth. Beaumarchais is on bad terms with Franklin and Deane....

Catalogue reference: SP 78/304/25

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This record is about the Folio 64: Stormont to Weymouth. Beaumarchais is on bad terms with Franklin and Deane.... dating from 1777 Sept 17 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 78/304/25
Date
1777 Sept 17
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Folio 64: Stormont to Weymouth. Beaumarchais is on bad terms with Franklin and Deane. They blame his indiscretion for the imprisonment of Hodges at Dunkirk. Franklin is said no longer to rely on the French government and to be considering leaving but he is naturally addicted to artifice and fraud. The rebel agents still intend sending munitions from Nantes, secretly aided by France. British cruisers must watch the coast of Brittany. The ships will soon sail from Marseille and cannot pretend to be French. A Frenchman called Lafargue from Bordeaux has had 12 commissions from Congress from Franklin and is fitting out several privateers at small ports in Brittany.

Date and place: 1777 Sept 17 Paris.

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