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Folio 458: R. Walpole to Viscount Weymouth. Discussions with Ayres de Sá over the seizure...

SP 89/85/163 | Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. Robert Walpole. | Folio 458: R. Walpole to Viscount Weymouth. Discussions with Ayres de Sá over the seizure of the Lively by HMS Levant. It now appears that the latter seized a French brig from South Carolina on the same day off the Algarve coast, and sent her to Gibraltar. Walpole is apprehensive lest these repeated insults not only exasperate the Portuguese, but provoke `a similar conduct from the officers of other nations. Mons. de Mello looks upon the seizing of the Lively brig by the Levant, as an act less justifiable th…

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Source	UK National Archives
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	The National Archives, Kew
Date	1778 Sept
Type	catalogue level 7, closure O
Details	search Lagos
Found at	https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6848733
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Record ID	`uk-tna-discovery:C6848733`

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Folio 458: R. Walpole to Viscount Weymouth. Discussions with Ayres de Sá over the seizure.... UK National Archives, 1778. Vero Archive, record uk-tna-discovery:C6848733.