BIB_ID
375922
Accession number
MA 854.49
Creator
Canning, George, 1770-1827.
Display Date
1809 Nov. 4.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
At top of p. [1]: "Private & Confidential."
Part of a large collection of letters from and to George Canning. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 854-855 for more details.
Part of a large collection of letters from and to George Canning. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 854-855 for more details.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Sending him a letter he wrote to [Spencer] Perceval and Perceval's reply "as confirmation of what [Canning] wrote to [Wellesley] on the 28th of October"; asking he if may know Wellesley's source of the intelligence against him; remarking that Lord Lonsdale [William Lowther], the Duke of Richmond [Charles Lennox], Lord Titchfield [William Henry Cavendish Scott Bentinck, Duke of Portland], Lord [William] Grenville, and Lord [Charles] Grey were "proposed either by [Pervecal] or by others, -- exactly as much as [Wellesley]; -- with exactly as much concert on the part of the Cabinet -- & exactly as much approbation on the part of the King; -- and with exactly the same right to each of them, -- that your informer led you to suppose yourself to have"; stressing that he was not the only person to oppose Wellesley's appointment; hoping that Perceval's letter will "set [his] mind at rest on the subject."
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