Sales catalogue 551: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/98
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 551: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hill will spare no pains to make every practicable di scovery for ascertaining whether it be possible to prove that David Hunter wrote the Letter.’ Etc. ‘‘ In reterence to your private letter of the 7th ultimo respecting David Hunter belonging to the Naiad, who has been strongly suspected of writing the anonymous and mutinous Letter to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, I enclose you herewith a letter I have received from Captain Hill of that ship, by which there ig every reason to believe that this man was drowned.” Etc. ‘“ Kiver since the permission was given for the Implacable to re-stow her Hold, every exertion had been made to do it, and shall be continued, bub it will not be completed before Thursday night, if quite so soon. Agreeably to the first Orders about this Ship, to make her ready for sea with the utmost dispatch, her provisions and Water had been; completed, when the directions arrived to allow of her hold being re-stowed, which very considerably encreased the work to be done for that purpose.’’ ‘The Milan, which ship left Lisbon on the 12th instant, brings no inielli- gence different from what we received by the Tenet. They feel very bold at Lisbon. Admiral Berkeley has been constituted Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese Fleet.’’ Ete. ‘“. . . Sir Home Popham, meeting light and variable Winds, sent his Dispatches on shore at Bridport. I never desire to possess secrets, but I learnt so much that he had conferenca with the Juncta at Corunna, and has account from them of their! views and capabilities for co-operation against the Enemy. He has in consequence, submitted, I apprehend, certain prepositions for the con- sideration of Ministers.’’ Ete. ‘‘ The inimitahle Cervantes never composed for his Hero Don Quixote a finer adventure than has been produced by the Captain of the Cyane. Chased all the morning by Ships fast ati their Anchor. No wonder that the purser stated to me that the Oyane had the heels of them!” Etc. ‘ The American Sloops of War from Havre has just arrived at Spithead. An officer from her went on board my Flag Ship pro forma, and reported that news arrived at Paris on the 28th ultimo, of Massina having been beaten by Lord Wellington.’’ ‘* This we disbelieve. The Tennant is just arrived from the Tagus, and, we think, brings no such intelligence, tho’ she must have left Lisbon as late as the 24th, but we cannot he quite sure, as our Telegraph message has been confused by the fog.”’ ‘Your kind attention in sending me the good news from Portugal is very gratifying to me. The affair has indeed been very brilliant. It will elevate the spirits of the Portuguese (the British need no elevation) and must certainly de- press the French; and Lord Wellington having obtained such important advant- ages from the cautious and defensive conduct he has hitherto pursued, I hope he will not be induced to adopt other measures by any partial discomfit of the Enemy.’’ Etc. “. . . Short is the memory of those about the Commander-in-Chief. Lieutenant Colonel Torrens, represented te the Admiralty by directions of his Chief, that the Public Service would be much forwarded if the Deserters from the French Army, and other Deserters, desirous of serving in the German Legion, could be sent to the Foreign Depét at Lymington, at which place arrangements have been made for their reception. Not a word of notice required—‘ arrange- ments were made for their reception.’ In future I will acquaint the Commanding Officer at Portsmouth when any arrive.’’ Etc. ‘‘T have received your private and confidential note of the 6th instant, to- gether with the Copies of the Proposals on the part of the British Government, to the Government of France, for an exchange of prisoners. [ shall take every opportunity that may occur for putting them on shore on the Coast of France. There will soon be a considerable number of Invalid Prisoners of War sent home,
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