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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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A letter from Marseilles dated Dec. 1 reports French covert shipbuilding in Genoa, with a 64-gun ship and 30-gun frigate recently arriving at Toulon, another half-finished, and a third with keel laid. Toulon dockyard busy strengthening navy to better face the English than in the last war, possibly to avoid paying Canada bills.
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"The French every now and then steal home a ship or two from foreign ports, where they have been built for them; some few days ago a ship of 64 guns, and a frigate pierced for 30 guns, arrived at Toulon from Genoa, where they had been built on account of the French; there is another ship of the line at the same place, about half finished; and a third had the keel laid down when the above one was launched. They are very busy also in the dock yard at Toulon: and without making any eclat, you may depend on it this nation are using their utmost diligence in getting a marine to be a little better able to face the English than they found they were in the last war; and if they can but a little longer negotiate off the payment of the Canada bills, it is not improbable they will then find another sort of arguments to prevent their paying them at all."
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Primary Location
Toulon
Event Date
Dec. 1
Outcome
french navy strengthening with new ships to better oppose english; potential use of war to avoid canada bills payment
Event Details
French secretly commissioning ships built in Genoa, including a 64-gun ship and 30-gun frigate arriving at Toulon some days before Dec. 1; another ship of the line half finished there, third with keel laid; busy at Toulon dockyard preparing marine to face English more effectively than last war; delaying Canada bills payment may lead to alternative arguments against payment