L29/568/98

Fitzherbert, Paris to Grantham, London (most private) "General joy which has been occasioned" at Paris by the signature of the Preliminaries particularly as the only particulars of them that have transpired as yet are those which are advantageous to France and Spain. One set of people alone - the Choiseuils and their adherents - are dissatisfied. The Dutch Plenipotentiaries "exclaim loudly and bitterly" against the French Court saying the French have abandoned them. M. de Brantsen hints that if England will relax her demand of Negapatam she will re-establish her credit and influence with the Republic upon its former basis. The French party will insist that the giving back of the Dutch West India Colonies and the Cape as justification of their conduct in the present instance.

25 Jan 1783

From: 1783 To: 1783

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Lucas,
Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron,
Fitzherbert, Alleyn,
de Brantsen, G.

Foreign Secretary, political correspondence, Plenipotentiary, French, Spanish, Dutch, Paris, London, Britain, France, Spain, Holland, England, Nagappattinam, West Indies