Franklin: Statement Concerning the Dutch Loan, [after 16 July 1782]
Franklin: Statement Concerning the Dutch Loan
DS: Musée de Blérancourt
[after July 16, 1782]
Etat des reconnoissances fournies au Trésor Royal par M. franklin, et relatives à l’emprunt d’hollande de dix millions.6
Savoir:
| l.t. | ||
| 18 juillet | 1781. | 800,000 " " |
| 29 octobre | id | 600,000 " " |
| 4 xbre | id | 816,000. " " |
| 8 fevrier | 1782. | 500,000 " " |
| 12 mars | id | 500,000 " " |
| 7 juin | id | 2,352,899.15. 4 |
| Le dit jour7 | 300,000. " " | |
| 5,868,899.15. 4. |
Je soussigné, Ministre des Etats unis de l’Amérique, reconnois que mes sept promesses ci-dessus détaillées, m’ont été rendues, et sont devenues nulles par le traité passé le 16 juillet dernier, lesquelles promesses quoique ne formant que cinq millions huit cent soixante huit mille huit cent quatrevingt dixneuf livres quinze sols quatre deniers nen sont pas moins le Solde des 10 millions de l’emprunt d’hollande n’ayant pas été fourni de reconnoissances pour les 4,131,100.l.t. 4.s. 8 que j’ai également reçu dans le temps. Paris le
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6. Neither this statement nor the contract with the French government, immediately above, includes a loan of 416,000 l.t. on May 30, 1781, presumably taken from the Dutch loan: XXXV, 71n. We have located loan certificates for the first five payments listed here; see XXXVI, 96–7n, 347n.
7. Perhaps July 16, 1782, the date of the contract with the French government. Under the same date, Account XXVII (XXXII, 4) itemizes various sums received from the Royal Treasury, presumably from the Dutch loan: (1) 146,000 l.t., “the Overplus which the Finance has paid on the Subsidy of 1781”; (2) 196,481 l.t. 15 s. 3 d. for 200,000 weight of powder and its transport to Brest; (3) 1,011,248 l.t. 5 s. 11 d. for a provision of cloth made in 1781 at the request of Col. Laurens; (4) 1,800,000 l.t. for a second provision, replacing the effects aboard the Marquis de Lafayette; (5) 1,052,345 l.t. 11 s. 6 d., reimbursed to the war department for provisions made in May and June, 1781; (6) a similar payment of 252,275 l.t. to the navy department; (7) 293,430 l.t. for freight of four vessels from Brest (for which see XXXV, 111n, 518–19); (8) 394,219 l.t. 7 s. 4 d. “for what rests to be furnished with the Freight of Vessels of Transport, valued expecting a final Account”.