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Lettre du secrétaire d'État au Foreign Office à l'ambassadeur d'Angleterre auprès de la Régence de Cadix.

Foreign Office, 28 may 1810

M. Wellesley.

Sir,

l am directed by the marquess Wellesley to request that you would apply to tlie spanish government for the release of a french g^entleman of the name of de Sassenay, who is represented as

having^ lately arrived from Buenos-Ayres in tlie Mercury, sloop, and to be now a prisoner at Cadiz.

Should the spanîsh g^overnment consent to bis release, lord Wellesley desires tbat you would recoinmend tbat he should be embarked on board one of His Majesty's sbip at Cadiz and conveyed to Eng^land.

1 bave tbe bonour to be, etc., etc.

Signé : William Hamilton.