BIB_ID
356419
Accession number
MA 712.17
Creator
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806.
Display Date
[1795-1806].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Docketed on the verso.
Part of a collection of letters from Lord Thurlow to Thomas Tyrwhitt relative to George IV and Queen Caroline. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
The letter is undated; the possible date range begin with the marriage of the Prince in 1795 and ends with the death of Lord Thurlow.
Part of a collection of letters from Lord Thurlow to Thomas Tyrwhitt relative to George IV and Queen Caroline. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
The letter is undated; the possible date range begin with the marriage of the Prince in 1795 and ends with the death of Lord Thurlow.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1910.
Summary
Commenting on the situation facing the Prince of Wales; saying he is "afraid the Prince is too sanguine. At least my old eyes see no Day light even to advert to His situation and He seems to be neglecting, [illegible], annihilating all the means which, according to my Notions of Wisdom and Manliness, should be employed in asserting his Pretensions;" reviewing the financial payments to the Prince since his marriage and the subsequent reductions to his annual allowances; commenting "This also was accepted by the Prince; under what Inducement God may know. But no Mortal has yet explained it to me. / Some untoward Circumstances took off all the Consideration and Advantage which otherwise would have been desired from this Marriage; nay turned it against, and made It hang a dead weight upon Him in publick Opinion. Without those Circumstances, It would have been impossible to treat Him so and with Them He could not have been worse off than He now is with His own Concurrence. / He struggles with His Fetters, and they bind Him the faster. If He can't break hem at once, He had better not struggle;" referring to the possibility of the Queen's intervention saying "The Result of all this is only to beg the Prince will be pleased to imagine in His own Mind some useful Step, which He hopes the Queen may take in His affairs; and what sort of Information Her majesty may want for that Purpose."
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