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1712.1011.Tb



Addressed:
M.^r Prior


Windsor Castle Sept.^r 30. 1712.

Sir

I was In hopes I should have been able to have sent you
by this Post an order of the Queen in Council relating
to prisoners of War, but the Declaration of the ffrench King
making no mention of thoſe taken at Sea, that which
was intended to have been published by the Queen must
neceſsarily have been conceiv'd in the same terms, w.^ch
would have been conceiv'd in the same terms sounded
very ill in this Country, where the Sea is our main
concern, and the Service of it always provided for
before that of the Land; However tho' I cannot send you
an authentick Act, you may aſsure the Court, that her
Ma.^ty has given to the several offices concern'd such
directions for a general releaſe of all prisoners of War,
as cannot fail to have their full effect, and therefore,
you will desire that what has been wanting in their
Declaration may be supply'd.

The Government of Malta has of late taken frequent
occasions to treat her Ma:^ty's Subjects very ill, as you'l
ſee by the enclosed Petition; Her Ma:^ty is not in any
correspondence with the Great Master, and therefore
cannot properly write to him on this Subject, nor is
ſhe willing to send her fleet thither, if he can be bro.^t
to reason without it, if you mention it to M^r Torcy
and let him know that the interposition of his Court
would be agreeable to her Ma;^ty perhaps our
Merchants might be redreſs'd without further trouble.

I am &c.^a

Dartmouth

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Scribal notation:
The Petition enclosed is entred in y^e Book of Spain.

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