BIB_ID
124808
Accession number
MA 1268.20
Creator
Macleod of Colbecks, John, active 1804-1809.
Display Date
1809 Feb. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.2 cm
Notes
Addressed as "A copy of The Memorandum given For the consideration of the Right Honble Lord Viscount Castlereagh, Minister for the War Department."
Volume 11 (MA 1268) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1268.1-60).
Volume 11 (MA 1268) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1268.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Suggesting a prisoner exchange and proposing, that because of his being detained as a prisoner in France for five years, he should play an active role in negotiating the exchange; suggesting "That Able conciliating - and confidential Agents charged with the management of this Exchange may lay a foundation for the Exchange of Prisoners - and a cordial solid and durable Peace;" saying "Every War, that has been concluded with France, derived its conclusion from certain Exchanges of reciprocal civilities, relative to respectable reciprocal Prisoners - Those Prisoners became the Channels of Explanations, which official documents can never convey. Colonel Macleod ever since his return to this country has endeavoured to realize in the minds of very many of the French Prisoners, Those sentiments of real Liberality in return for their civility to him which could not fail to have made those impressions he is happy to believe he has effected, so to promote some eventual good result to the sufferers - and to his country can He therefore be of any farther use? and will Ministers after a full consideration of all his Successive Representations - and a reference to the Issue of Events, consider Him - as capable of aiding their own general system - He is ready - It is for them to suggest a command;" suggesting a prisoner exchange of General Brenier for Major General Abercrombie.
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