BIB_ID
126226
Accession number
MA 1270.36
Creator
Murray, John, Sir, 1768?-1827.
Display Date
[1794] July 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmarks to "Sir James Murray Bart / No. 57 Pall Mall / London."
Volume 13 (MA 1270) 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 1270.1-50).
Year of writing from postmark.
Volume 13 (MA 1270) 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 1270.1-50).
Year of writing from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Expressing his concerns about the war and the possibility of a conspiracy between the Austrians and the French; saying "Falseness and treachery sont a l'ordre du jour - For some time a close connection between some of the leaders of the Austrians & the Enemy has been suspected - At first we thought it nothing further than remarkable good intelligence that they got - & so good did it appear to be that some of the junior posts(?) of the Etat general was violently suspected - It was not till [illegible] this month that it has clearly appeared that the leaders themselves are concerned in this most infamous business & that a plot for the ruin of our army & the loss of the Netherlands has been laid & to a certain degree most happily executed;" detailing specific examples of possible collusion; adding "A few days ago I was with the Prince of Cobourg - In my life I never saw nor could conceive an army in such a state as that of the Austrians - Men & officers furious & discontented to a degree that nearly amounts to mutiny - The prince himself seemed in a state of despair;" listing the troops positions around Antwerp.
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