BIB_ID
387084
Accession number
MA 1268.5
Creator
Macleod, John, of Colbecks, -1823.
Display Date
1808 Apr. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (10 p.) ; 25.0 cm
Notes
Marked above the salutation as "No. 2."
Volume 11 (MA 1268) 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 1268.1-60).
Volume 11 (MA 1268) 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 1268.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Discussing, at length and in detail, why he believes he is perfectly suited to work for a reconciliation with France as a result of the friendships he made at the highest levels in the French government during his five years as a detainee; saying "The National Prejudices that exists Between this Country and France has served to withhold a real knowledge of individuals - as they now are and of that Wonderful Government; from that natural Liberality and Generous constitutional Characteristical Virtue of our Empire, We may Judge of Them as Nature points out to ourselves - 'That untill the existing Prejudices are Mutually done out of the way' It is Morally incompatible with the Nature of our Being - That there will arise any other understanding - Than that which unhappily and disastrously for the World - at present existing - and Alas! likely to continue so to do - Between us;" adding "The French Nation are fully acquainted with not only my opinions - But the Motives that influenced my Reason - and guided my laudable and prominent interference in a pacification and a conciliation so much to be wished Between the Two Countries - They give me full credit for my Liberality and I know that Those are my motives and the Fountain from which issues my Judgement so formed 'unbiased' and respectful Representation of Them'...I am the most proper Person to be Employed to give a chance once more To Open the Door of Humanity - unanimity and Reconciliation Worthy of the Two Empires."
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