| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Alexander Gordon & Co., Madeira, with shipping news including captures of ships, the captain of a ‘very valuable Carolina vessell’ has been brought to the island, he is ‘a blustering red hot American and has retailed numberless falsehoods’, large cargo of wine apparently intended for America, by a man who is ‘so warm in the Cause of rebellion as to argue publickly in favour of and defence the Cause of Silas Dean in instigating John the Painter to set fire to his Majesty’s Dockyards’, 27 June 1777 |