| Description | Letter to Richard & Benjamin Smith, London, from James & Alexander Gordon, Madeira, thanking for letters, shipping plans, settling accounts, Madeira’s ‘new governor with new powers and authority, new Judges of different degrees, new laws, and in fine a formidable military force being daily expected here from Lisbon. We are at a loss to guess what occasions those innovations’, asking for herring to be sent promptly, 20 October 1766 |