The Manuscripts Of The Marquess Townshend

Author : G. B. Historical Manuscripts Commission
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366715794
Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book The Manuscripts of the Marquess Townshend (Classic Reprint) written by G. B. Historical Manuscripts Commission and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Manuscripts of the Marquess Townshend Poyntz, referring to the extreme want of the French army inso much that in several places their leathern shoes were taken from them in the winter [lest they should eat them, we may suppose the writer means] and locked up till the opening of the campaign, and wooden shoes given them in the meantime and every post we hear of their plundering bakers' shops. One correspondent tells Horatio Walpole in J une 1710 of the late sudden illness called Collero Morbus of his brother Robert, which had nearly put anearly period to the career of the then rising statesman; and another friend J ames Craggs, when with the English army in Spain, (writes to him about the battle of Almenara and other matters. Among other letter writers are the Earl ofpeterborough and Lord Baby, afterwards Earl of Strafi'ord, who succeeded Lord Town: shend as Ambassador at the Hague. After Townshend became Secretary of State in 1715, we find a capital series of despatches from Admiral Sir John Norris, when in command of the expedi tion sent. To the Baltic to protect British commerce, and to demand satisfaction from the King of Sweden for the losses in flicted on our merchants by the confiscation of their ships and cargoes. Other letters of this time in the collection, notably some from Lord Bolingbroke when in Paris, and of Sir Robert Walpole, were allowed to be used by Archdeacon Coxe, and printed in his Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole. The correspondence for the year 1725 of Horatio Walpole when Minister in Paris, bound in four folio volumes, and many loose letters of his from Paris of earlier and later date were also examined by Coxe. In a long communication dated in J annary 1727, Sir Charles Wager, the Admiral, gives his private opinion of the Russians, and their inclinations towards England. The series of notes which passed between George IL, in his own handwriting, and Lord Townshend, on various public matters between 1728 and 1730, printed in Coxe's Walpole, are still preserved at Raynham. The last diplomatic letter of importance, dated 3rd November 1735, is from Thomas Robinson, afterwards Lord Grantham in it he refers to his six years' residence at the Imperial Court, and earnestly desires to be removed from Vienna. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.