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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Paris report on a courier from London possibly carrying gifts or negotiation dispatches for M. de Bussy. Duke de Choiseul announces immediate payments and pensions for seamen to restore French Marine. France asserts dominance over Britain. 25-30,000 men assemble in Brittany for an expedition led by Vicount de Belunce and Chevalier de St. Croix.
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The Duke de Choiseul has wrote to the Intendants of Marine, that the Pensions and Salaries of the Seamen, whether Invalids or in Service, will be instantly paid; that the Officers and Sailors to whom the Half-pay had been formerly stopt, would now be allowed it; that the Widow of a Mariner killed either in the King's Ships or on Board Privateers, would be put on the Pension of the State; and that his Majesty is firmly resolved to restore, entirely and speedily, the Marine of France.
Let Our Enemies take for an Axiom, that France can always do what she will, when she employs all the Means she has in her Hands to preserve the Ascendant which her Situation, her Power, and her Riches, give her over those haughty Islanders, who make such an important Figure in Europe only because she has too much neglected in the Beginning to curb and confound their Presumption.
A Body of between 25 and 30,000 Men is assembling in Brittany here with other Preparations, sufficiently indicate an approaching Expedition; of which the Vicount de Belunce and the Chevalier de St. Croix, who are both at Brest, will probably have the Direction.
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Brittany
Event Date
Nov. 17
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immediate payment of pensions and salaries for seamen, invalids, officers, and sailors; state pensions for widows of mariners killed; firm resolution to restore french marine entirely and speedily; assembly of 25-30,000 men in brittany indicating approaching expedition.
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A courier arrived from London, possibly with a present for M. de Bussy or dispatches for a second negotiation. Duke de Choiseul wrote to Marine Intendants announcing instant payments for seamen's pensions and salaries, resumption of half-pay, pensions for widows of killed mariners, and king's resolve to restore French Marine. Assertion of France's superiority over Britain. Assembly of 25-30,000 men in Brittany with preparations for an expedition, likely directed by Viscount de Belunce and Chevalier de St. Croix at Brest.