CASTLEREAGH (Viscount, Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquis of Londonderry, 1769-1822, Foreign Minister, Committed suicide and was buried in Westminster Abbey)

Autograph Letter Signed as Prime Minister to Sir William SCOTT (1745-1836, MP) saying that when he "recommended to me to appoint Mr Moncrief to succeed Dr Stoddart at Malta as Advocate to the Admiralty you stated that you had been referred by Mr Censing (?) to me, as he conceived that Appointments ... with this Office. Under this Intimation I am happy to express my immediate Readiness to accept your Recommendation & give Directions for Mr Moncrief's Commission to be prepared. But on examination of the Books of the Office no trace could be found of any appointment to an Advocate of the Admiralty at Bath by a Secretary of State for the Colonies. Dr Stoddart has since appeared & brought with him his Commission which is an Admiralty Commission. So the order for preparing a new Commission will originate with Lord Mulgrave. I have therefore thought it right to send an Extract of your letter to me on the subject to his Lordship with an Explanation do the Part I had taken upon it ...", 2 sides 4to., Downing Street, 23rd October torn on left hand edge with the loss of a few letters of the text

Castlereagh was Foreign Secretary, 1812-1822, and so during the momentous events of the 1st Restoration, the Congress of Vienna, Napoleon's Hundred Days and Exile, and the 2nd Restoration of 1815. At the Peace Conference in Paris he managed to prevent punitive measures on France and achieve some kind of 'equilibrium', though the Allies continued to occupy France under Wellington till 1819.

Item Date:  1817

Stock No:  39481