L29/567/6

Torrington, Brussels to Grantham (private) Lord Saltoun delivered Grantham's letter to Torrington. He has arrived at an unlucky time as everybody in Feshein has gone to country. Torrington asks how he should sent news or intelligence. On the 3rd instant he had a packet left at his house. He sent it by a gentleman going to England but he wishes for instructions on any future occasion. "A Report is current in this Town that M. D'aranda should say - His Court did not Interest itself about America & that the griefs and complaints of His Court are entirely separate from those of France & must be treated of separately - I wish to God! that the Exchanging Gibraltar, which is their principal grief; & the giving up Minorca, on condition Mahon should be a free & neutral port would satisfy Spain and detach her from France".

6 Sep 1782

From: 1782 To: 1782

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Lucas,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Torrington, George Byng, 4th Viscount,
Saltoun of Abernethy, Alexander Fraser, 16th Baron,
D'Aranda, Count

Foreign Secretary, political correspondence, letters, private buildings & land, French, Brussels, England, France, Gibraltar, Minorca, Mahon, Spain