Baron Henri Édouard de Copley was interim Governor of Guadeloupe from 1764 to 1765.
The French of Grenada, now an English colony, felt they were being mistreated by the governor and had complained to Bourlamaque.
Copley knew that Bourlamaque had returned money owing to the English in Martinique and Guadeloupe, and was indignant about the difficulties being experienced by the French on Grenada.
He sent Gabriel Rousseau de Villejouin to talk to Governor George Scott of Grenada, but with little effect since there was no force to back him up.
His daughter married James Conway, a brigadier-general in the French army of Irish origins.