Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Doc Ref NoD(W)1778/II/1677
Title[James] Hutton
Date9 May 1776
Description"A certain person, who must for the present be nameless, believes it would not be impossible to keep off, for a time at least, the French breaking with us even if there was a party formed or forming to induce that court to do so", the "Economists", there, if any hope were held out of free trade between France and England, would prevail in the cabinet, the nameless person has a friend who is the right-hand of a certain Mr Turgot, who entrusts his confidences to Mr Du Pont, plan he proposes, not very coherently, to unite the two nations by mutual facilities of trade and so prevent a rupture, refers to a letter he received from Du Pont, who knows the writer to be an ardent friend of peace
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