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Fremmede konsuler i Norge ca. 1660-1905 - Historisk Tidsskrift

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466 Halvard Leira og Iver B. Neumann<br />

på denne tiden, var Alexander Wallace. Han hadde bosatt seg i byen og<br />

tatt borgerskap i 1737, 75 og 21. juli 1744 rapporterer han til den britiske<br />

ministeren i København, Walter Titley, at han har tatt affære overfor et<br />

fransk fartøy, og har fått satt noen britiske sjøfolk som ble holdt ombord<br />

fri: »By the enclosed act your Honour will see that I have by my Interest<br />

with the French Consul«. 76 Vedlagte aktstykke er datert 17. juli 1744, og<br />

er ført i pennen av notarius publicus Johan Barth, på engelsk, og forteller<br />

hvordan den franske kaperkapteinen Denis hadde ført to priser<br />

med mannskap til Bergen:<br />

On his arrival the 14th instant July a Merchant and Trader for the<br />

British nation, Mr Alexander Wallace applyd him self to the Consul<br />

[Buteaud] & solicited for the liberating of the said Twelve<br />

Prisonners of War, in order to their being sent home on Condition<br />

that he the said Alexander Wallace, who was personally<br />

present, should be obliged, as he hereby becomes obliged, to<br />

procure effectually and without any delay, the liberty of a like<br />

number and quality of French Prisonners in England in<br />

exchange for these Twelve Prisonners the necessary Pasports for<br />

their Security…«<br />

Dokumentet er undertegnet av generalkonsul J. Buteau, kaptein Denis<br />

og Alex Wallace. Wallace har tydeligvis hatt øye for hvordan hans eget<br />

tarv kunne passes inn i en slik økonomisk og maktpolitisk situasjon, for<br />

allerede dagen efter det inntrufte, 15. juli 1744, skriver han følgende<br />

supplikk til Walter Titley:<br />

Sir, […] as the Warr now broke out between Great Brittain and<br />

France requires if thought necessary more than ever a Consul for<br />

the British Nation over this Country (the French and Dutch<br />

having theirs here already) in order to the regulating what may<br />

happen with regard to the bringing up of Captures and many<br />

other affairs that will easlie occur to your Honour, and as its so<br />

[] great a distance from your Honour for one […] appli<strong>ca</strong>tion,<br />

you will see the necessity thereof that the British ought to have<br />

one of their own Nation that would with freedom and integrity<br />

[…] them. If I should be so fortunate as to be thought worthy of<br />

75<br />

RK, TKUA, Almindelig del, Diverse Sager, Realia Akter vedr. fremmede <strong>konsuler</strong> i<br />

Danmark og <strong>Norge</strong> 1747-1768, 3-019.<br />

76<br />

National Archives (NA), London, SP 75/87.

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