February 21, 1783 letter from Marquis de Bouillé to Vicomte d'Arrot on the prohibition of English trade in America (translated from French to English)
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At Martinique the 21. February 1783.
I have the honor, Sir, to send you several
copies of an order of Congress by which you
will see that all of the raw and manufactured merchandise
from england is prohibited in the united states. It is
necessary that the merchants of your island know this
arrangement, in order that they anticipate in their precautions
the certain danger which they would have of the loss of merchandise,
& commodities coming from raw and manufactured english
which they could send in one of the ports of the united states,
where there is only received the raw and manufactured merchandise from
France.
I request you to render this ordinance in public in
having it posted and deposited in the registry of the admiralty.
I have the honor to be with a very inviolable attachment, Sir, your very humble and most obedient servant.
Bouillé
M. le Vicomte d'Arrot, Governor of Tobago
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