BIB_ID
340540
Accession number
MA 149.37
Creator
D'Oyly, Christopher, 1717-1795.
Display Date
1779 Feb. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.7 cm.
Notes
Docketed "2nd Febry 1779 / Mr. D'Oyly / Rx 14 Nov. / ans'd 17 by Mr. ?[illegible]."
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
Saying that "Lord North has condescended to have some conversations with me concerning you, and he has been pleased to express to me his approbation of your conduct; yet I could never bring him to disclose that, if you would continue in India after the expiration of the five years, that you should be the Governor-General. I constantly insist you ought to be in that situation now, and that nothing less will prevail on you to stay. From the whole I collect their present intention to be, to appoint some man of great rank from hence Governor-General. But things take such sudden turns in this country, that I do not think that much regard should be had to their present intentions. General Fraser and Mr. Bristowe have a scheme of Mr. Hastings resigning, and you getting into the government before the end of the five years, and this I have talked over with Mr. Bristowe and Mr. Fraser. The plan is delicate and dangerous, and therefore desired that great care might be taken of your honour, and that you might not be improperly pledged for any thing."
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