BIB_ID
380806
Accession number
MA 487.32
Creator
Arbuthnot, Robert, 1760-1809.
Display Date
1805 Jan. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (9 p., with address) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal and postmark to "Sir James Pulteney Bart / Bruton Street / London." With a notation above the address "the Hon'ble Company's Ship / Lady Jane Dundas."
Endorsed as "Received at Madras the 8th Feb'ry & forwarded by Fra's Lautour;" postmark indicates it was received in London September 17, 1805.
Volume 1 (MA 487) 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 more information (MA 487.1-46).
Endorsed as "Received at Madras the 8th Feb'ry & forwarded by Fra's Lautour;" postmark indicates it was received in London September 17, 1805.
Volume 1 (MA 487) 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 more information (MA 487.1-46).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Discussing a "violent quarrel" between General Wemyss and the Supreme Court which also involved Mr.Johnston and Mr. North concerning orders to close the gates of the Fort; saying "I see no hopes of reconciliation as both parties are in such a state of irritability that every order of the Court is considered as a Vexation by the Army & the most innocent Act of the Army is continued into a Contumely by the Court. Tranquility never can be restored until both the Judges & the General are recalled. The Governor, myself, & most of the Civilians have hitherto been able to preserve a Neutrality, but it cannot be expected that at last we shall not be embroiled with one party or the other. Mr. North's disposition is by no means calculated for Scenes of this kind, & both his Health & Spirits have suffered. He is likewise sadly disappointed at finding that no person is yet named to succeed him in his Government as he had expected to be relieved before this time. For myself I have not been in such good health for many years as at present. This Climate agrees with me admirably;" suggesting he send future letters through Francis Lautour in Madras.
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