BIB_ID
389883
Accession number
MA 1273.25
Creator
Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Display Date
1794 July 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 21.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Sir James Pulteney Bart / &c &c &c / Pulteney House / Piccadilly."
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
Reporting that their orders to march that morning had been delayed based on intelligence from the Prince of Orange on French penetration; saying The Prince "has requested that the Duke may remain here a few days, as He dreads the Effect which His Change of Position may in the present Circumstances have upon the public in Holland, and the Confidence wh the Jacobin Party would acquire should the French penetrate into Zeeland. To this the Duke has consented;" crossing out the last part of the previous sentence which read "& altering Reconnaissance is now making towards Antwerp;" continuing "The Stadholder likewise wishes that a naval Force may be sent from England to protect Zeeland, but there does not appear to be the least disposition in the Country itself to make the smallest Disposition to save it by their own Efforts, & the Stadholder appears to have neither Spirit or power enough to inforce it. Their whole Reliance is on England, & their Expectations from thence form a striking Contrast with their own Inactivity."
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