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Cabinet Memorandum, September 19, 1787

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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It appearing by Mr. Eden's Dispatch of the 11th Inst. and by the communication made by Monsr Barthelemy, that the French Court have determined to assist in opposing the command of the Duke of Brunswick, And there being every Reason to suppose that measures will be taken for that Purpose immediately on receiving the accounts of the Prussian Troops advancing towards the Province of Holland,

It is humbly recommended to your Majesty that immediate orders should be given for arming your Majesty's Fleet with the utmost expedition, and for augmenting the army.

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Political Memorandums
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Camden New Series , Volume 35: The Political Memoranda of Francis Fifth Duke of Leeds , January 1884 , pp. 118 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1884

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page 119 note 1 This paper relates to a time when we were within an ace of going to war with France. The Princess of Orange, the sister of the new King of Prussia, had been arrested on her journey from Nymwegen to the Hague; and when the States General refused the satisfaction demanded, the Dnke of Brunswick marched into Holland at the head of the Prussian troops. Mr. Eden's despatch of the 11th is not published, hut there is in the Auckland Correspondence (vol. i. p. 193) a letter of September 13, which contains the following words : “M. de Montmorris informed me that in the opinion of His Most Christian Majesty's Ministers it would be deemed necessary to offer to Holland support in whatever manner might be most efficacious if His Prussian Majesty should advance his army into the Provinces.” Mr. Pitt, writing to Mr. Eden on September 14, says of the Erench: “They must, as things stand, give up in effect their predominant influence in the Bepublic, or they must be determined to fight for it.”