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Collection	George IV Calendar as Prince, Regent and King
Reference	GEO/MAIN/38921-38922
Record Type	Correspondence
Title	Letter from Lord Robert Seymour to Captain Payne, on the military situation including the capture of Ypres; and requesting that Harry Vaughan be sent to the West Indies
Date	[?28 June 1794]
Writer	Seymour, Robert, Lord
Addressee	Payne, John Willett, Captain
Description	Seymour writes that the Duke of York, with the 14000 men Prince Cobourg has left at Tournai, is in danger of being cut off; and that Lord Moira will not land if Ypres is captured. He notes at the top of the letter that he has just heard that Ypres has been taken and the Duke of York is retiring. Written Saturday. Signed.
Place Of Writing	Charles Street
Language	English
Extent	1 document (2 pages)
Physical Description	Loose manuscript papers; mounted
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Publications	Published in A. Aspinall "The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales 1770-1812" (London, 1964) Vol. 2; no 843
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