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As the following occurrence cârries with it an à sppss 14 rance of what Your Lordship mentioned in your secret and separate Dispatch of 9th April last, relative to the attention of the Court of France to the affairs of. this country, I think.it my Duty to inform your Lordship, “FRS that a M. Dufy of Montreal (before the Conquest, el A tain of Militia of that place, in which he served with dit and Reputation) lately received from Monsieur Mehegan, a Brigadier in the French service, a letter, acquain: Ge ing him, that in consequence of the Duke de Choïiseuils 1 Promise to him, of some years standing, Monsieur de. à. Bonnes, the Minister of the Marine, had obtained of the ET. King his nomination to the Order of St. Lots that as ei 3

mA to France, the Minister’s Official Letter up n As He Occasion having been carefully registered for that ES < : in the Bureau des Colonies. à

which he tells me he has answered in general Terms ée US Thanks, without signifying his acceptance or Refusal of. h the Order ; He very freely acknowledged, Lie flattered his. |