Letter from Sir John Murray, Palermo, to an unidentified male recipient, 1813 September 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

Acknowledging receipt of a letter by the recipient, as well as another by "Mr. Keir"; addressing the recipient's efforts to raise cash for him to settle his (unspecified) commitments and assuring the recipient that he approves of his actions, while noting that he "omitted to send me the Weymouth Election Bills" and asking to see them before they are discharged; mentioning arrangements to pay Mrs. Rose; informing him that "the committee at Weymouth" has asked him to subscribe to a petition, referring to it as a "delicate business" but remarking that as he has "always promised to subscribe to any petition which would settle the right of voting I must keep my word" and enclosing a letter for Robert Penny which he asks the recipient to send on, adding that he will write to Mr. Weston to explain the transaction; observing that he has "come in for my share of abuse" in the newspapers, expressing his hope to prove that he could not have acted other than he did, and pointing out that "Lord William Bentinck has now been 12 days before the place without even daring to attack it with 8000 men ... more than the double of what I had with me."