BIB_ID
210464
Accession number
MA 1261.2
Creator
Clavering, Henry Mordaunt, 1759-1850.
Display Date
1809 Mar. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Volume 4 (MA 1261) 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 MA 1261 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Explaining how he came to testify before the House of Commons in the 1809 case involving the Duke of York's possible misconduct related to his mistress's promising promotions to officers in return for payment; defending himself against charges of "prevarication in [his] evidence"; mentioning that he "offer'd £1000 to Mrs. Clarke"; naming the Duke of Argyll [George Campbell] and the Earl of Moira [Francis Rawdon-Hastings] as character witnesses; writing, "I only ask that there may be a calm enquiry whether that imputed guilt stands upon any verisimilitude; and that I may not be swept away by a stream of prejudice & misconception."
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