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who was furnish'd with a passport from the French Government, & they feel much more strongly on the subject, since the french Council of War declar'd that he ought to be out at liberty & that his Vessel & Crew should be restor'd to him.
As the order for his liberation graciously sign'd by your Emperor, was forwarded by me and deliver'd to General De Cane by an English Flag of Truce I cannot by any Arguments I can devise, make them believe that the General would have disobey'd the Emperors order, unless he had been furnish'd with private instructions from some other part of the French Government.
It gives me pain not to be able to fulfill your wishes on this occasion. I console myself however with thinking, that an English Passport without a Spanish one, could have been but of little use in enabling you to perform Your Journey, but that a