...e) may be relied on; but Franklin neither criminated France, nor compromised himself, nor his country, nor his colleague. Rayneval passed through London directly to Bow Wood, the country seat of Shelburne in the west of England. I trust what you say as much as if Mr. de Vergennes himself were speaking to me, were the words with which he was welcomed. Gibraltar, observed Rayneval, is as dear to th...