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1712.1103.Ta



Addressed:
M^r Prior


Whitehall 23.^d Oct.^br 1712

S^r

I have rec.^d Your letters of the 9.^th and 17
Inst. by which We have the satisfaction to
find that the Court of France has at last
approved of the Clause proposed by the
Queen to be inserted in the Act of Renun­
­tiation.

My Lord Lexington is to ask the Court
of Madrid to grant free paſsage by land
for her Majestys Troops that are in Por­
­tugal to go from the Frontiers of that
Kingdom to Gibraltar, and for the Portu­
­guese that are in Catalonia, to return into
their own Countrey thrô Spain, Those two
Corps are reduced to so small a number
that there seems to be no objection against
indulging them this liberty, however it
may not be amiſs that You take notice
of it to M.^r Torcy in order to remove any
difficulty's that may happen to be raised.

I send You inclosed a Copy of a letter
I have rec.^d from S.^r W.^m Windham con­
­cerning the Prisoners of War together
with the List to w.^ch it refers, ¹ that affair
is so entirely his Province, & he has written
so fully upon it, that he has left me nothing
to add.

The Paſses You have hitherto sent Us being
limited to Ships that are furnished with
them at their going out of Port, the East
India Company seem apprehensive, as You
will see by the inclosed Petition, ² that they
will be of no use to their Ships, which are
upon their return home, notwithstanding
those Paſses have been already dispatched from
hence to them, and will probably be on
board them, before they can be in any danger,
You know the security of those Ships is
generally of great consequence to her
Maj.^tys customs, as well as the Proprietors
and it will therefore be a service, if You
can find any Expedient for their safety by
procuring Paſses with a greater latitude,
or otherwise as You shall judge most proper.

The Person in custody at Calais having
been seized upon the suspicion the Court
of France had of his conduct, and not
upon any applications from hence, it is
left to them to proceed against him, as
they think reasonable.

I am &c.^a

Dartmouth

Notes
1.
Copies of the letter and the list follow immediately in the letterbook, SP 104/26: 7-9v (orig. pp. 11-16).
2.
A copy of the petition is also preserved in SP 104/26: 10-10v (orig. pp. 17-18).

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