| Collection | George IV Calendar as Prince, Regent and King |
| Reference | GEO/MAIN/38839-38859 |
| Record Type | Correspondence |
| Title | Letter from John Cox Hippisley to George, Prince of Wales on his recent interactions with the Government of Rome concerning provisioning the British Fleet, and Britain's support of French [ecclesiastical] exiles |
| Date | 7 September 1793 |
| Writer | Hippisley, John Coxe |
| Zelada, Francesco Saverio de, Cardinal Secretary of State |
| Bernis, François-Joachim de Pierre de, Cardinal |
| Pope Pius VI |
| Addressee | Augustus Frederick, Prince (1773-1843) |
| Marche, John Francis de la, Bishop of St Pol de Leon |
| George, Prince of Wales (1762-1830) |
| Bernis, François-Joachim de Pierre de, Cardinal |
| Zelada, Francesco Saverio de, Cardinal Secretary of State |
| Hippisley, John Coxe |
| Description | Hippisley discusses his application to the Cardinal Secretary of State regarding reuqesting assistance from the Cardinal State to provide for the British Fleet expected at Leghorn; the Pope's condemnation of the 'seditious proceedings of the lower class of Catholics in Ireland'; the gratitude of [Pope Pius IV] regarding the support of the British to the French exiles, and extension of the rights of Catholics in Britain; and the permission given to [?Thomas] Erskine to visit Britain, and hopes for future intercourse between the Pope and Britain.
Signed.
Encloses the following documents:
(GEO/MAIN/38843-38844) Copy of a letter from John Coxe Hippisley to the Cardinal Secretary of State [Francesco Saverio de Zelada], 19 June 1793, requesting that the British Fleet be able to purchase grain from the Papal State if required.
(GEO/MAIN/38845-38846) Copy of a letter from the Cardinal Secretary of State [Zelada] to John Coxe Hippisley, 31 August 1793, relating a message from Pope Pius VI that all ports [in the Papal State] will be open to the British Fleet; and condemning the recent upheavals in Ireland. Incomplete.
(GEO/MAIN/38847-38848) Copy of a circular letter from the Cardinal Secretary of State [Zelada] to the Bishops, urging them to condemn the seditious meetings of lower class Catholics in Ireland.
(GEO/MAIN/38849-38850) Copy of a letter from John Coxe Hippisley to Cardinal Bernis, 31 August 1793, regarding the British treatment of emigrants from the French Clergy.
(GEO/MAIN/38851) Copy of a letter from the Cardinal Secretary of State [Zelada] to John Coxe Hippisley, 2 September 1793, on transmitting documents to the Bishop of St Pol de Leon and others.
(GEO/MAIN/38852) Copy of a letter from the Cardinal de Bernis to John Coxe Hippisley [on French refugees]
(GEO/MAIN/38853-38854) Circular letter [printed] from Pope Pius VI, 1792.
(GEO/MAIN/38855) Page [printed] from the Ecclesiastical Journal of Rome [Giornale Ecclesiastico Di Roma], 7 September 1793, with translation of a letter from Mr Stanley [member of the Committee for the relief of the French Clergy migrated to Britain] to John Coxe Hippisley.
(GEO/MAIN/38856-38858) Translation [into French] of a letter from Pope Pius VI to the Bishop of St Pol de Leon [?August-September 1793], on the kindness shown by Britain, and George III, towards the exiles from the French Clergy.
(GEO/MAIN/38859) Copy and translation [into French] of a letter from Pope Pius VI to Prince Augustus, for George, Prince of Wales, 2 September 1793, regarding actions taken by Britain in support of the exiles from the French Clergy. |
| Place Of Writing | Palazzo Cicciaporci, Rome |
| Language | English |
| Italian |
| French |
| Latin |
| Extent | 11 documents (21 pages) |
| Physical Description | Loose manuscript papers; mounted |
| Document Image | 
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| Publications | Published in A. Aspinall "The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales 1770-1812" (London, 1964) Vol. 2; no 777 [Without enclosures] |
| Level | File |