The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XIII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HUNTER, OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL: An intimate Friend of the Poet FALCONER
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE COMMODORE SIR WILLIAM JAMES, BART. IN THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE, Chairman of the Court of Directors, &c
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF PHILIP D'AUVERGNE, DUKE OF BOUILLON, COMMODORE IN HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE, &c. &c
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD ONSLOW, BART
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD BICKERTON, BART. AND K.C. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD RODNEY BLIGH, ESQ, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD RODNEY BLIGH, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
- II SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
I - SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XIII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM HUNTER, OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL: An intimate Friend of the Poet FALCONER
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE COMMODORE SIR WILLIAM JAMES, BART. IN THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE, Chairman of the Court of Directors, &c
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF PHILIP D'AUVERGNE, DUKE OF BOUILLON, COMMODORE IN HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE, &c. &c
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD ONSLOW, BART
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD BICKERTON, BART. AND K.C. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD RODNEY BLIGH, ESQ, ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF RICHARD RODNEY BLIGH, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
- II SPANISH NAVAL STATE PAPERS
Summary
Extract of a Dispatch from Lord Hawkesburyto J. H. Frere, Esq. dated Downing Street, 2d June, 1803.
I shall now proceed to signify to you his Majesty's pleasure with respect to the conduct which it will be proper for you to observe at the Court at which you reside.
It is the King's sincere and earnest desire that the Spanish Government may be enabled to maintain the strictest neutrality in the War which was commenced between Great Britain and France. You will therefore endeavour, by all the means in your power, to impress upon the Spanish Ministers the expediency of their adopting this system; and you will assure them, that if it be adopted, his Majesty will respect it with the most scrupulous good faith.
His Majesty's Government having no means of deciding how far his Catholic Majesty may consider himself as bound by the Treaty of defensive and offensive alliance, which was concluded at St. Ildephonso on the 9th of August 1796, it is indispensably necessary that you should lose no time in ascertaining this important point. If the Spanish Government should state to you, that they conceive themselves to be under the obligation to furnish to France the number of Troops and Ships which are stipulated in the Treaty above mentioned, but that their co-operation will extend no further, you will refrain from giving any opinion upon this measure, but will content yourself with signifying that you will transmit the information of it to your Court.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 513 - 520Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1805