| Description | Making a confidential communication of the enclosed paper, in Sir Stanier Porten's hand, in the third person
Enclosure, 22 Aug 1775, extract of a letter from a person who has lived many years in France, been much connected with the ministers there, and who is now come to reside in England, written to one of his friends in London, information of a plan in contemplation by France and Spain towards America to be executed as soon as favourable circumstances offer and which will have fatal consequences to the trade of Great Britain, shows assistance given in military stores to the rebels by France for seven years past from their West India Islands, the French agents freely dispersed throughout the provinces to inflame the minds of the people, remarks on the intended attack by the French on the English Sugar Islands |