| Description | Enclosure, Lord North to the Earl of Sandwich, 8 May 1778, Downing Street, private, opinion of Lords Weymouth, Germain, Gower and Dartmouth that nothing contained in the letter, and papers sent by Admiral Duff will justify a change in the destination of Byron's fleet, they continue to think that every dispatch should be used to send the fleet off to North America unless accounts are received of the arrival of the Toulon fleet at Cadiz and either that it continues there or sails to a different quarter of the globe, remarks upon the apparent intention of Spain to assist D'Estaing with a squadron in his expedition to North America |