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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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French declaration dated Dec 31 abolishes commerce treaties with Dutch Republic, citing breaches involving privateers, English-captured French India ships in Dutch ports, and violations of Tournay and Dendermonde capitulations; Dutch response pending.
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Extract of a Letter from the Hague, dated Jan. 14.
At length the Bomb is burst, and the pernicious Designs of the French Ministry have been discover'd, by the Declaration which they caused to be published on the 31st of December, in the King's Name, abolishing all Treaties of Commerce with the Republick, and putting it upon no better a Footing, than that of a neutral Power; his most Christian Majesty pretending, that the States General have broke through those Treaties, by obliging several French Privateers to leave in the Ports of their High Mightinesses, the Prizes which they had carried in thither; by forcing others to put to Sea before receiving the Assistance they were in need of; and by permitting the English, who had taken three French India Ships, to carry them into a Port belonging to the States General, where they were even sold; and afterwards sent to Holland, under Dutch Colours, in order to shelter them from being re-taken; and lastly, by the Infraction of the Capitulations of Tournay and Dendermonde, which utterly disannuls the Engagements which his Majesty had entered into in Favour of the States General. So that France makes three bitter Complaints against the Conduct of their High Mightinesses: I. In Respect to the Privateers. 2. About the three French India Ships. And, 3. About the Capitulations of Tournay and Dendermonde. To all which you will, in a Post or two, have the States General's Answer.
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The Republick
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31st Of December
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abolishing all treaties of commerce with the republick, and putting it upon no better a footing, than that of a neutral power
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The French Ministry published a Declaration in the King's Name on the 31st of December, abolishing all Treaties of Commerce with the Republick due to alleged breaches by the States General regarding French Privateers, three French India Ships taken by the English and handled in Dutch ports, and the Infraction of the Capitulations of Tournay and Dendermonde. France makes three complaints: 1. In Respect to the Privateers. 2. About the three French India Ships. 3. About the Capitulations of Tournay and Dendermonde. The States General's Answer is expected soon.