LETTER CXXII.--TO LE COMTE BERNSTORFF, January 21, 1788
TO LE COMTE BERNSTORFF, _Minister of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen_.
Paris, January 21, 1788.
Sir,
I am instructed by the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
to bring again under the consideration of his Majesty, the King of
Denmark, and of his ministers, the case of the three prizes taken from
the English during the late war, by an American squadron under the
command of Commodore Paul Jones, put into Bergen in distress, there
rescued from our possession by orders from the court of Denmark,
and delivered back to the English. Dr. Franklin, then Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States at the court of Versailles, had
the honor of making applications to the court of Denmark, for a just
indemnification to the persons interested, and particularly by a letter
of the 22nd of December, 1779, a copy of which I have now the honor of
enclosing to your Excellency. In consequence of this, the sum of ten
thousand pounds was proposed to him, as an indemnification, through
the Baron de Waltersdorff, then at Paris.
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