Viscount Stormont [i.e., William Murray, later Earl of Mansfield] A.L.S., Paris, April 30, 1777 : to William Eden [London?]

Viscount Stormont [i.e., William Murray, later Earl of Mansfield] A.L.S., Paris, April 30, 1777 : to William Eden [London?]

Paris : 1777

[2] p. ; 23 cm. (4to)

MSS L1988.190.171 MB

"The one admiral whose name your consul could not recollect must be Ch Distaing [sic]. His activity and hostile disposition towards us you well know. The project of sending American property in French bottoms to New Orleans certainly exists, but I shd imagine that if we cannot stop it here a frigate or two properly stationed in those seas would render every project of that kind abortive."
Viscount Stormont was the British ambassador to France at this time; he succeeded to the title Earl of Mansfield in 1793.
William Eden was a member of Parliament who served as a Lord of Trade at the time of this letter.
Admiral d'Estaing was an original member of the French Society of the Cincinnati.

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