BIB_ID
104634
Accession number
MA 177.22
Creator
Johnstone, George, 1730-1787
Display Date
1776 Apr. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1890.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters related to the trial of Warren Hastings; see collection-level record (MA 176-177) for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1890.
Summary
Apologizing for passing through his house "with a young boy then under my Protection who had lost his Brother in the Crowd & was ready to be trod under Foot;" adding "As a Member of the House of Commons I have an undoubted Right to pass through any of the Avenues leading to it & I thought there was no Harm in taking that passage in such Confusion, But I am sure If I had known it had been in the least contrary to your Grace's Inclination, I w'd have been the last Person to have tresspass'd on any Line of Order you have Prescribed..."
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