BIB_ID
404283
Accession number
MA 4644.28
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 September 13.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house in Holborn / England / London." At his house in Holborn and London have been crossed through and replaced with an illegible address.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated September 2 / 13, 1707.
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated September 2 / 13, 1707.
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fortieth Anniversary Fund from the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, 1989.
Summary
Reporting on the Duke of Savoy's retreat; saying "...we hear that the Duke of Savoy is gott back safe into his Territories, having burnt all the forrage & provisions as he went on his retreat, whereby he has prevented the Marshal of Thesse falling on his Rear. Ther's at the Hague an account of this retreat & of the Losses sustained by the french at Toulon, which they say, are very considerable; yet, to my mind, not so great as to make amends for the retreat...As to the king of Sweden, he's at last on his march towards Poland, & King Stanislas was already got as far as the frontiers of Silesia, where he was staying for the king of Sweden, to enter Poland together..Mean While the Moscovites, having destroyed all the Provisions in Upper Poland, begin to retire towards Lithuania, to be nearer the frontiers of Moscovy, & ther's no more talk of chosing a new King of Poland; which shews how much reason has the King of Sweden to look upon the Czar as a despicable enemy, & makes me wonder why that King has Increased his troops to about 60000 Men, & is still raising more in several parts of Germany, if he had nothing else in his View but to oppose the Moscovites. Time will discover his designs. The treaty concluded between his Majesty & the Emperour is not yet made publick. It contains, as 'tis reported, 18 articles & is very advantageous to the Protestants of Silesia. The King of Prussia & the Elector of Brunswick are guaranties of the treaty."
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