BIB_ID
387742
Accession number
MA 1269.9
Creator
Mawby, John, 1725-
Display Date
1793 Dec. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Volume 12 (MA 1269) 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 1269.1-63).
Volume 12 (MA 1269) 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 1269.1-63).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the state of the troops at the post; relating details of the siege of Toulon; enclosing the resignation, due to ill health, of the Quartermaster and informing him of the replacement he has chosen; relating the details of his new post and the duties of his new command; reporting that the Royal Irish "have not behaved as well as I expected they would" with desertions and drinking; reporting that "General O'Hara made a Sortie but I am Sorry to say it has not been Successfull the intention was to take a Battery from the Enemy which our Troops did with little loss, but I am Sorry to Say by Some mistake or other they pushed forward and the Enemy came down in great numbers which obliged our Troops to retreat, and to give up the Battery they had taken; the attack began between Six & Seven in the morning and it was not over till between Eleven and Twelve[.] I am informed this moment of the loss which the British have Sustained which is great indeed;" listing the officers killed and wounded; adding that unless they get reinforcements soon "we shall be in a bad way, as the Enemy is very numerous and are geting [sic] more fresh Troops every day, and our Force does not Consist of Twenty Thousand...there has been a great many of the English Soldiers have deserted : and I am afraid this will be the cause of more going. the Marines desert very fast, they are mostly Recruits;" adding, in a postscript, the totals of their losses.
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