502 KINGSTON (Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of) A large Collection of Original Letters and Documents (A. D. 1734-1790) connected with the notorious Miss Chudleigh, "Duchess of Kingston," her action for jactitation of marriage against Augustus John Lord Hervey, the action against her for fraudulently obtaining the pretended will of the Duke of Kingston, etc., illustrated with portraits, etc., in a portfolio a parcel GORDON RIOTS. Orders to Mr. Cox, contractor, June 7, 1780, for a Magazine to be formed in Hyde Park immediately for 6,000 men for eight days. - Statement of Prizes taken in 1778 by Admiral Keppell; and others 503 (4) 504 LOUIS XVI (King of France) Order s. 2 April, 1788, to pay 117,539 livres 10 sols for the expenses of his hunt for the quarter ending April, 1788. - LOUIS XV, Order s. for the removal of a prisoner from one prison to another (2) 505 506 [HAMILTON (Emma, Lady)] An important and most interesting A. L. s. from Mary Dickenson, 5 pp. folio, Taxal, Chapel-le-Frith, Derbyshire, 16 Νου. 1789, to her uncle, Sir William Hamilton, recommending him to marry "his beautiful Emma," afterwards Lady Hamilton : ... I am interested in favor of your beautiful Emma, and wish to be informed whether she continues as worthy of your regard and esteem, as of your admiration. If she does, I should be tempted to wish an indissoluble bond might unite and secure her to you for ever; you have had sufficient time to find out whether she is really deserving of such a proof of your affection, and I can see no reason why, in the present stage of your life, you have not a right to follow the dictates of your own inclinations, proceeding from honourable motives, without being answerable to the opinions of others, etc. A. L.s. (initials), 3 pp. folio, from Sir W. Hamilton, Naples, Decr. 14th, 1790, to his nephew, Charles Greville, referring to Emma: .... The Legges are here, he has been ill, she is better, you may be sure I will never neglect them-but I cannot make this place as agreeable to Mrs. Legge as I cou'd wish as she is shy of Emma, who pretends to nothing, but by making herself agreeable she has the best company male and female and of the first nobility at our house. I will steer as well as I can, I foresaw these difficulties as you know, however Emma really deserves attention for her excellent behaviour. On the 6th September of the following year they were married at (2) FRENCH REVOLUTION. The Original Order for the delivery to the Royal family of certain necessaries, with engraved heading, of extreme interest : Conseil du Temple, Du 25 7bre 1793, 2de de la République. Le Conseil authorise le Citoyen Gagné a fournier à Elizabeth, et fille Capet, six grosses serviettes, des petits linges, pour lavettes, une teyiere, faire reLot 506-continued. tourner un bouloire de cuivre. Et netoyer les seaux. Et pour Simon six serviette ouvrée et deux unies, Avril Cazenave. ** Referring to the imprisonment in the Temple of Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI, and the "fille Capet" (Duchesse d'Angoulême at a later period). Elizabeth was guillotined in 1794. Avril seems to have been a general in the Republican Army, and apparently in Paris at this date. Cazenave appears in a list of the Council of the 500."Note by Mr. Hodgkin. 507 GEORGE III. Royal Sign Manual on an Order for payment to the several Garrisons in England for their allowance of Fire and Candle, 1791. Vote of Congratulation by the Members of "The Immortal Jupiter," a convivial Club, to Chief Justice Osgoode; etc. (3) 508 PAYNE (Roger) Bookbinder, one of his characteristic Autograph Bills for Binding, 6th of May, 1795 : Dr. Mosely, Boccace Decamerone London MDCCXLI (Double Letter'd in ye most exact manner in Workmanship The Back Gilt in the richest manner with small Tools and studded work in The Leaves the dirt was only scraped off, are now very clean, neat & smooth Very neat Green morocco joints & marble paper etc inside & filleted with The outside also filleted and corner Tools The corners of the Boards are bruised a little I strengtned Them & putt a little Gold on ye edges of each corner to make them neat. I have lelft nothing undone to make the Book neat & strong. it took up a great deal of time as small Tool Work alway does, & the neatness & cleanlyness of the Work NB The greatist care has been taken to preserve the Leather; no hott 509 [See ILLUSTRATION.] MALONE (Edward) Shakespearian Critic, A. L. s. 11⁄2 pp. 4to, Dec. 31, 1795, to T. Astle, a most interesting letter in reference to the Ireland Forgeries: I am at this moment very busily employed in writing an Essay to prove the late pretended MSS. of Shakespeare, etc. to be neither more nor less than absolute forgeries. For this purpose, I shall reproduce a facsimile of Lord Southampton's handwriting in the time of James the First to which a pretended Letter of that Nobleman, given in the publication above mentioned, has not the slightest resemblance. But I wish also to give some specimens of his handwriting in the time of Elizabeth, etc. 510 HAMILTON (Sir William) Diplomatist, A. L. s. 7 pp. 4to, Naples, Oct. 25, 1796, to his niece Lady Mansfield, fine letter in reference to his marriage with Emma Hart: As yet I have had no reason to repent of a step which I took contrary to the approbation of the world, and without which, my house, instead of being the most sociable at Naples, wou'd have been abandon'd and the Owner of it moping in an Armchair. Your Ladyship must have heard from some of the English Ladies returned from their Travels that it was not beauty alone that decided me to marry. All that I can assure you is that in this country nobody stands higher in public esteem than Lady Hamilton, and the friendship the Queen of Naples has for her is conspicuous.... The marrying Emma was my own business. I knew what I was doing, for as you know I had lived with her five years before I married, and it is now five more since we married, and I do not repent. Look round your circle of prudent and assorted matches in the great World and see how few turn out so well as our seemingly imprudent one, etc. Also an extremely interesting A. L. s. 5 pp. 4to, Casuta, Novr. 6th, 1798, to his nephew, respecting the British Fleet in the Mediterranean; and two original Prospectuses of Dr. Graham's "Temple of Health," in which Emma Hart is said to have posed, portrait ; etc. (4) 511 PORTLAND (William Cavendish, third Duke of) Prime Minister, L. s. 23 Dec. 1795, on the high price of Corn, with copy of Minute from the Privy Council and other printed Papers, illustrations. -A. L. s. of Sir John Sinclair on Waste Lands, 1796; etc. (6) 512 FRENCH INVASION. Interesting A. L. s. from G. Devereux, thirteenth Visct. Hereford, 27 Feb. 1797, to Joseph Thackeray Esq. mentioning the landing of the French at Fishguard, and their expulsion.Request of the Committee of the Temple Association for the promotion of the first corps of the "Devil's Own," 14 April, 1798 (2) 513 FRENCH INVASION. Armée d'Angleterre: Organisation du Service de l'Ambulance à la suite de l'Armée d'Angleterre sur le pied de quatre vingt dix mille hommes. Manuscript on 14 pp. large folio, 25 March, 1798 514 CASANOVA (Jean Jacques) Author of the "Mémoires," A. L. s. 66 Casanova mourant," 1 p. 4to, Dux ce 30 Avril, 1798, to the Gräfin von du Recke, a most characteristic letter and a rare autograph.-A set of "bouts rimés" in his autograph dedicated to the Countess Munster and s. Casanova de Dux en Bohème " (2) 66 |