Sartine to the American Commissioners
LS: Harvard University Library; copies: Massachusetts Historical Society,
Library of Congress, National Archives; two transcripts: National
Archives
<Versailles, August 16, 1778, in French: In answer to your letter
of the 13th on the question of prizes and prisoners, I enclose
a copy of the regulations with revisions to articles 2 and
14. I will at all times receive with pleasure your representations
on any inconveniencies attending the execution of the
regulations and you may be assured His Majesty will always
be disposed to grant Americans every facility compatible with
his financial interests and his subjects’ commerce.>
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