BIB_ID
389858
Accession number
MA 1273.15
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
[1794 July 23?] .
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.7 cm
Notes
This appears to be the conclusion of MA 1273.23, the first part of which is dated "Contich, 21 July 1794" with the final paragraphs dated "23rd" and unsigned. This fragment is signed and the content appears to be a continuation of the discussion on troop positions and the Corps of the Prince of Orange begun in MA 1273.23.
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).
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).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of Manuscripts.
Summary
Concerning the viability of the Corps of the Prince of Orange and proposed plans for positioning it; reporting on the evacuation of the ports of Lillo, Liffienshoeck and Antwerp and the destruction of their magazines there, "...these Places being in no State of Defence. Even Maestricht is in a very bad State of Defence & the Austrians are no longer to be trusted when they act contrary to the most solemn Engagements. Count Merveldt is the only one I regret. He is gone home entirely. As to the rest, We have not one thank God, with us;" adding, in a postscript, "Our Position will be with its right to Rosendaal, its left to Breda & the Maer Vaart, in its front."
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