L29/563/9

Walpole, Lisbon to Grantham, St. James's (private) The secret view of Portugal assenting to the Russian Code has now been revealed - "they make no scruple to lend their ships to the Spaniards for the American trade". "Miserable state" of the finances of Spain. Spaniards have had only one considerable fleet from the Havanna since the war. The internal riches of South America have suffered by the insurrection. The King of Spain is making a loan from his own account and procuring as much gold coin as he can from Portugal which will be recoined in Spain with a considerable alloy. Britain should "strike at the root" of Spanish resources in South America. Walpole feels it is "time that G.B. should exert itself against the false doctrine of the Russian Code, the number of Neutral Ships employed in the French trade of their islands has raised the trade of that Country to a flourishing degree". Some "meddling" persons have come from Ireland to Lisbon to discover whether "government have not neglected the business of Ireland".

23 Nov 1782

From: 1782 To: 1782

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Lucas,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Walpole, Robert

Foreign Secretary, political correspondence, Portuguese, Spanish, trade and industry overseas, general, public finance, general, civil ships, general royalty, gold, French, Irish, Foreign Office, Lisbon, Westminster Saint James, Portugal, Spain, Havana, South America, Britain, Ireland