Address panel with fragment of a seal to "Major General / Sir James Pulteney Bart M.P. / 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).
Reporting on their position and the position of the Dutch; commenting "The P. of Coburg appears determined to maintain His present Position & to retreat no further. He even talks of offensive movements being again renewed in a short time;" commenting on the objectives of the French; reporting on the position of the Hanoverian battalions and the Prussians; commenting on the Dutch saying they "appear determined to make no one Effort for their own Defence, although it is said that they talk of forming a Militia. In the Province of Zeeland, They are ill disposed & are suspected of having favoured the F. in their Invasion of Casand. The P. of Orange is an old Woman."