BIB_ID
195818
Accession number
MA 13554
Creator
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Display Date
1789 May 26.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.4 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Identification of the recipient suggested by content and inscription.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at head of page 1: "?to C.J. Fox".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning the duel fought that morning between the Duke of York and Charles Lennox, the future 4th Duke of Richmond, and Burke's concern at the King's seeming indifference to the incident ("Thank God it has turned out, as every honest man must have wished, with an encrease of honour to the Duke of York in every point which can or ought to be honourable among men & that he has not bought all this honour at the price which his great spirit was ready to pay for it. ... This affair has occupied the publick attention for a fortnight or three weeks past. It has filled the newspapers; & yet the King has, either known nothing, or seemed to care nothing, about a business, which, as a father, a supreme Magistrate, or a commander of an army, or as a person of a character compounded of all these, ought to have been an object of his vigilant attention ... I cannot be persuaded but that the present is a moment that absolutely demands, that the Prince of Wales ... should lay before the King a fair & full state of what has been done during his first illness ... whether his Majesty be absolutely capable of attending to it or not.").
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