BIB_ID
128681
Accession number
MA 150.30
Creator
Cholwell, John, fl. 1778.
Display Date
1778 Nov. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
By descent to his eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and in her possession in 1871; sale (London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1901.
Summary
Relaying news that Lord Barrington "has given up his seat in Parliament as a step to his retiring from all other employment;" continuing to say that "As to Political matters: there is a strange torpor, and want of spirit, and discipline in our Government here, of which every thing feels the effect: accordingly, our Generals, and Admirals (to say no worse of them) do nothing--but no more of that."
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