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Folio 211: Earl of Kinnoull to W. Pitt. Portuguese government's satisfaction with general promise of...

SP 89/52/50 | Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. Earl of Kinnoull, Edward Hay and Mathew Hiccox. | Folio 211: Earl of Kinnoull to W. Pitt. Portuguese government's satisfaction with general promise of English support (f.108). His lengthy discussions with Count of Oeiras and with Dom Luis da Cunha, over their concern that France might seek a pretext to attack Portugal, and/or incite Spain to do so. Kinnoull's own arguments and endeavours to reassure them that this was very unlikely to happen. French still pressing their demand for the restitution of the two warships taken off …

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