UNITED STATES. CAUSSADE, Tarn-et-Garonne. 3 Letters addresse - Lot 113

UNITED STATES. CAUSSADE, Tarn-et-Garonne. 3 Letters addressed to Monsieur BOUDET Directeur de la Poste aux Lettres de CAUSSADE: 2 Letters from his son from Poitiers September 23, 1784 and from DIJON (Côte d'Or) March 11, 1790 + News by hand from May 20, 1780, containing various information from the Court and news of the UNITED STATES War of Independence: "Le Roy (Louis XVI) a accepté pour son servicel'offre du cardinal de ROHAN de lever un régiment dans la souveraineté de son Évêché... Mr BERTIN reste assister aux Conseils mais l'on croit néanmoins que Mr AMELOT ne tardera pas à être fait Ministre d'État. The District of the HARAS of the Kingdom, which were in Mr. BERTIN's department, was transferred to that of War, and the Prince de MONTBAREY entrusted this detail to his son, the Prince de St MAURICE. The Countess Jules de POLIGNAC gave birth to a son on Monday, the Queen (Marie-Antoinette) came to see her immediately and the Court went to La Muette (château de) for 8 days. Mr D'ESTAING (Hector, Comte d'Estaing) was surrounded by a crowd of people before the very eyes of the King (Louis XVI) at the Cordons Bleus procession in Versailles. It is believed that Mr de LA MOTTE-PICQUET is to meet with the Spaniards in Havana, he reports the death of M. D'ARGOUT, Governor of Saint-Domingue and other French Leeward Islands. It is written from Brest that an order from the Court has arrived to hurry the Armement of Mr de BOUGAINVILLE's Escadre, which will consist of 5 Vaisseaux... The number of troops of Mr de TERNAY (Charles D'ARSAC DE TERNAY), aboard his Escadre is 64,000 men. LORIENT is said to be working on the armament of a small squadron... We are assured that both in our ports and here, some sixty accomplices of the Comte de SARADES, who is still in the Bastille, have been arrested...Letters from England inform us that the Walsingham (Robert BOYLE-WALSINGHAM) and GRAVES Wings had not left on the 12th."