Sartine to the American Commissioners
Copies: Massachusetts Historical Society, National Archives, Library
of Congress (two)
<Marly, October 26, 1778, in French: The second part of your
letter of October 12 deserves a response as well as the first, to
which I have already replied. Although it would serve a
double purpose if all American sailors remaining in British
service by inertia or coercion could be returned to their native
country, the matter poses difficulties. I shall take up the question
of the impressed seamen with His Majesty. I have given
orders to put at your disposal the four prisoners in Dinan
whose release you request.>
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