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1794. Carta de Cipriano Ribeiro Freire, ministro plenipotenciário, para Dom João de Almeida de Melo e Castro, diplomata.

Author(s) Cipriano Ribeiro Freire      
Addressee(s) João de Almeida de Melo e Castro      
In English

News letter from CiprianoRibeiro Freire, plenipotentiary minister in Philadelphia, to Dom João de Almeida de Melo e Castro, plenipotentiary minister in London.

The author reports on the bad weather he and his wife got between Gravesend and Falmouth on their travel by sea to the United States.

João de Almeida de Melo e Castro (1756-1814), the 5th Count of the House of Galveias, was a Portuguese diplomat who, given the pluri-continental nature of the monarchy he represented, had to be very subtle, while dealing with foreign powers, in the management of the resulting Portuguese political ambiguity. He was a plenipotentiary minister in London, the Hague and Rome and an ambassador in Vienna. After 1801 he had different government functions: foreign affairs minister, war minister, navy and overseas minister. He had also several honorary titles. He married Dona Isabel José de Meneses but they had no children, so the 6th Count of Galveias was his brother Francisco (1758-1819).

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Illmo e Exmo Snr

Meu Amigo e Sr da minha maior veneração e respeito. Mal Esperava eu escrever a V Exa deste porto, depois de embarcar-me em Gravesend em 13 do corrente; mas os ventos contrarios, e os tempestuosos que ruiváram nestes ultimos dias no Canal, nos obrigáram, depois de muito soffrermos, e de muito contrastarmos contra elles, a entrarmos aqui, por grande felecidade, antehontem á noite. Hoje mesmo, ou amanham, se o vento for de servir, como ha alguma apparencia, pro-seguiremos esta grande viagem; e Deos permitta que seja ao diante menos in-commoda, e totalmente livre de perigo. Minha mulher tem soffrido, o que não pósso encarecer a V Exa; ella dezeja que a recommende na Sua Lembrança; e eu q V Exa me conserve sempre a Sua boa amizade. Seja Seja V Exa sempre feliz, e dê-me em toda a parte occasioens de o servir, e provar-lhe os sentimentos com que sou

De V Exa O mais fiel Venor obgdo Amo e obde Creado. Cypriano Ribeiro Freire Falmouth 25 de Julho de 1794.
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