Collection | Correspondence of William IV |
Description | Informing the Duke of having successfully delivered his letters to the King of France [Louis XVIII] and [Marie-Thérèse Charlotte] Duchess of Angoulême; their answers are coming with the Lieutenant of the Monmouth[shire, Henry Charles Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort]. FitzRoy is also forwarding a speech the Major and Corporation of Dunkirk had intended to present to his Royal Highness in Calais. The King of France departed from Paris in perfect health. Lord Lennox [Lieutenant-Colonel Lord John George Lennox] arrived last night with dispatches from Lord Wellington at Toulouse mentioning an armistice between armies which took place there, and confirming an account of the sortie from Bayonne - with the exception that there was no treachery by the Governor of Bayonne's as expected. He is sending an account of the officers killed, wounded and missing, after Bayonne. |