1From Benjamin Franklin to the Marquis de Castries, 22 August 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received the Letter your Excellency did me the Honour of writing to me the 19th Instant, enclosing the Copy of a Letter from the Procureur General au Parlement de Bretagne, respecting the Complaint of the Judges of Painbceuf, against the Captains of American Vessels, who often put their Sailors into Prison there without Authority from the said...