BIB_ID
389363
Accession number
MA 1272.23
Creator
Rutherford, John, 1748-1834.
Display Date
1804 Feb. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "Sir James Pulteney Bart. / East Bourne / Sussex."
Endorsed.
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Endorsed.
Volume 15 (MA 1272) 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 1272.1-57).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Thanking him for his offer to help his "young friend;" asking for his opinion "of this new co-alition - Foxites & Grenville - My friend Lord Minto is gone up - He does not like it ; & I can easily see will not go with them - He has taken a great leaning lately towards Mr. Pitt - & at last He & I are to think alike in Politicks;" reporting on a "false alarm" but to which his volunteers responded with "spirit and alacrity;" adding that he was "informed of the Kings illness - & my Letter says of his old complaint - The affairs of the Country seem in every sense of the word to be coming to a Crisis - I do not like our 400,000 Volunteers - with their exemptions & rights of resignations & &c - That they will repel the Invaders I have no doubt - but I am equally certain they will not disarm when required - The Irish Volunteers extorted the independence of their Country - The French Volunteers conquered the Germans - They ended by murdering their King & completing the Revolution of their Country - do the British Volunteers [illegible] indebted for an equal representation [in] Parliament - & a British Republik - vale Melcombe Regis - Weymouth."
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