Address panel with traces of a seal to "Sir James Murray Bart / &c &c &c /."
Volume 16 (MA 1273) 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 1273.1-54).
Expressing pleasure at receiving his letter and the news that "...the Lawyer will no longer be either an Obstacle or Delay to Your happiness" and offering his "sincere and hearty Congratulations;" reporting on the situation in West Flanders; saying "There appears to exist a kind of Indecision and backwardness in all things which certainly is not very promising. They now say that to drive the Enemy out of Flanders would be exposing themselves to too great a risk on the Sambre, from the length of time it must take to reduce Menin and Courtray wh are said to be put into such a State of Defence as will require the Opening of Trenches before them, without reflecting that the longer the Enterprize is delayed the more difficult it becomes, whilst the Army on the Sambre is exposed to as much and even more danger by our Inactivity here...In short, in Confidence, I believe that the Austrians are most cursedly tired of the War, and that both owing to their not meeting with the expected Success and their Apprehensions of the progress the Prussians have made in Poland, and of their perhaps taking Advantage of the exhausted State of the House of Austria, they would gladly make peace without looking for further Conquests, or perhaps even without insisting upon keeping what they have got. They say that their Armies are ruined by their very Victories, what would they say to a Defeat;" relating the contents of a letter from the Prince of Coburg to the Duke of York in which he said that "...the Conduct of all the British had given Him the greatest Satisfaction..."