WARREN Admiral Sir John Borlase - ALS remarking on the mismanagement of the campaign in Spain Autograph Type_Visiting Cards

WARREN Admiral Sir John Borlase - ALS remarking on the mismanagement of the campaign in Spain Autograph Type_Visiting CardsAdmiral Sir John Borlase WARREN (1753 1822) Autograph Letter Signed (John Borlase Warren) to My Dear Lord mentioning success in our confined sphere of action and discussing the campaign in Spain and its effect on British interests. 3 pages 8vo, n. p., n. d. [but 1807 1810]. Any command either public or private from you; will always be obeyed by me with pleasure. I have in consequence of your request written to Mr. Consul Hamilton at Norfolk; and

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it is most likely that the libretto concerned Marcus Claudius Marcellus

The letter is somewhat browned and has a visible central vertical fold

Vogler tells me whisky is worse than wine for the gout

In his opening address

Leicester-Stanhope

but as an opponent of William Pitt and famously disliked by George III

he slipped

two or three saddles

- for two thirds of a century

Verhaeren himself was a committed pacifist and the war caused him great distress

and to give me also any information you might have about the enemy