220 Angleterre, 1782 
July 29. Vergennes to Washington, plea for 
pardon of Asgill, English officer taken at Yorktown 
(ff. 372-373) [printed: Wharton, V, 634-635]. 
July, [n.s.]. List of new members of British 
ministry (f . 384) . 
July, Ln.s.]. Memoir relative to American 
pretentions to territory west of Mississippi (ff . 385- 
388) . 
July, LAug.?]. Rayneval, memoir on lands east 
of Mississippi, from West Florida to Canadian boundary 
(ff . 389-399) [See text and discussion of this memoir in 
S. F. Bemis, "The Rayneval Memoranda", in Proceedings of 
the American Antiquarian Society . April, 1937], 
[n.d.]. Earl of Abingdon, proposed motion en-, 
titled: An Act Declaratory of the sole and exclusive Right 
of the Parliament of Great Britain to make and enact Laws 
and Statutes with Power to regulate and controul the exter- 
nal Commerce or foreign trade of Great Britain ... (f . 295) . 
538 (1782. Aug. -Nov. 20) 
Correspondence of d'Adhemar, Aranda, Lady Asgill, 
Bariatinsky, Baudouin, Bertrand, Brefny, Castries, Charost, 
Croy, Dumouriez, Dunilac, d'Estaing, Fitz-Herbert, Freville, 
Goyon, Grantham, De Grass6, Kerguelen, Lambert, Langeron, 
Lux, Maillebois, Moracin, Peinier, Polignac, Rayneval, Shel- 
• burne, Soliva, Thurne ["Lerchenberg"] , Valette, Vergennes 
Subjects Treated 
Brefny's project relative to Ireland (f. 3). 
Intercession in favor of Asgill (ff. 5, 10, 112). 
News from London (ff. 6, 8, 17, 21, 23, 29, 31, 50, 
51, 66, 67, 113, 119, 139, 142, 200, 202, 207, 213-215, 
229, 231, 270, 279, 297, 336, 354, 361, 372, 377, 386, 416). 
Mission of Fitz-Herbert (ff. 9, 11, 15, 60, 92, 120, 
352) . 
d'Estaing' s belief in necessity of concentrating 
troops from southern provinces at Toulon (f. 13). 
Correspondence of Oswald (ff. 16, 20, 34). 
Relations of Oswald and Witford with Franklin (ff. 20, 
34) 
28) 
Indemnities for French tradprs at St. Eustatia (ff. 27, 
Prints of Lord Ashburton, Isaac Barre, John Wilkes, 
Lord Nugent (ff. 18, 24, 32, 52). 
Conversations of De Grasse with Shelburne (ff . 54-56, 
58, 116, 121, 124) . 
Naval invention- (f . 57) . 
Negotiation concerning Newfoundland (f . 59) . 
Projects of various individuals concerning war against 
England (ff. 62, 63, 74, 237, 281, 293, 295, 359, 369). 
Claim for restitution of vessel Bonnette . seized by 
English (f . 65) . 
Loan of Comte d'Estaing to General Draper (ff. 70, 
344) . 
Submission of memoir on American independence (f . 93) . 
