BIB_ID
106068
Accession number
MA 9144
Creator
Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792.
Display Date
1764 January 28.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Removed in 1925 from The Junius Controversy.
Written from "Chesterfield Street."
The recipient is not identified in this letter but it is possible that it is addressed to Lord Grenville as Lord Grenville wrote to Burgoyne on the same day, possibly in reply to this letter.
Written from "Chesterfield Street."
The recipient is not identified in this letter but it is possible that it is addressed to Lord Grenville as Lord Grenville wrote to Burgoyne on the same day, possibly in reply to this letter.
Summary
Requesting that he be appointed to succeed Mr. Hamilton as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Northumberland; saying "From the time that Mr. Hamilton's removal has been confidently talked of I have received repeated intimations from various quarters that I stood foremost in his Lordships inclinations to succeed him: some of these intimations I think of authority to justifie an application both to his Majesty's servants here, & to his Lordship: among the former, Sir, I address myself to you in particular, not more induced by propriety than by inclination. I believe Lord Northumberland would wish for the sanction of the Treasury in his nomination, but I am at the same time far from aiming at such a recommendation as might seem to direct his choice: I should think such a request arrogant in myself, & injurious to my patron(?);" asking that he "...let Lord Northumberland understand, that in case of a vacancy of Secretary the Treasury would not disapprove his choice of me to fill that office."
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