| Description | The States General will probably rescind their convention with Great Britain and pass a resolution to escort ships carrying naval stores to France, all the trade of the Republic was likely to centre in the town of Amsterdam as the edicts of the French King granted extraordinary exemptions and privileges to the ships of that town and of Haarlem, "their factories in Bengal and on the coast of Coromandel and the Island of Ceylon from which they import cinnamon, the most valuable branch of their Asiatic commerce, must fall into your hands"
For full description see HMC 15th Report Appendix 1 |