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Volume XXVII of the papers of Mr. Andrew Mitchell, subsequently Sir Andrew Mitchell.

Letters to Mr. (Subsequently Sir) Andrew Mitchell, from the English Envoys in Italy, France, and Turkey, 1756-1769.

1. Letter from Mr. Mackenzie to Mr. Mitchell. Arrival of Mr. Mitchell’s ‘friend’ and civilities shown him. Disposition of the Court. Interception and difficulty of correspondence. (In cypher). Dated Turin, 12 May 1759. (folio 1)

2. A duplicate of the above letter, dated 16 May 1759. (folio 4)

3. Letter from Mr. Mackenzie to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Relative to Mr. Mitchell’s friend, the Merchant requesting information on Prussian affairs. Tranquillity at his Court. Dated Turin, 19 April 1760. (folio 7)

4. Letter from Mr. Mackenzie to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Congratulations on the success of the King of Prussia [Frederick II, alias Frederick the Great]. Dated Turin, 6 September 1760. (folio 10)

5. Letter from Mr. Mackenzie to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Still on the Prussian Victory of the 15th. Complaints at Vienna, against Marshal Daun. Dated Turin, 13 September 1760. (folio 12)

6. Letter from Mr. Mackenzie to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) State of Mr. Mitchell’s health. News of warlike preparations in Turkey. Dated Turin, 11 February 1761. (folio 14)

7. Letter from Mr. Mackenzie to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Sentiments towards the King of Prussia. Tranquillity of the Court. The Venetians alarmed at the armaments preparing at Constantinople. Accounts received of a congress being agreed upon. Dated Turin, 22 April 1761. (folio 16)

8. Letter from Mr. Murray to Mr. Mitchell. Thanking him for the intelligence of the capture of Breslau. Particulars of French Man of War captured and destroyed by part of Admiral Osborn’s fleet. Dated Venice, 31 March 1758. (folio 19)

9. Letter from Mr. Murray to Mr. Mitchell. Complaining of Mr. Mitchell’s not writing. The King of the Sicilies [Charles V] has ordered his troops to hold themselves in readiness. The King of Spain [Ferdinand VI]’s death hourly expected. Death of the Princess of Orange [Anne]. Dated Venice, 9 February 1759. (folio 22)

10. Letter from Mr. Murray to Mr. Mitchell. Disputes in which the Court of Rome is involving itself. Admiral Boscawen’s squadron. Expedition against Canada. Prince Ferdinand’s imprisonment of one William de Champagne, a subject of the King of Prussia, who is accused of various crimes. Departure of His Sicilian Majesty for Spain, again talked of. General Graeme’s situation. Dated Venice, 1 August 1759. (folio 24)

11. Letter from Mr. Murray to Mr. Mitchell. Congratulations on the success of Admiral Boscawen over the French Fleet. Dated Venice, 14 September 1759. (folio 26)

12. Letter from Mr. Murray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Condolence on the state of Mr. Mitchell’s health. Refusal of Mrs. Recané to repay money advanced to her son. Death of Count Cataneo, the King of Prussia’s Charge d’affaires. Mr. Murray recommends his son Count Pietro to succeed him. The Republic alarmed at the account of the Turks arming. The King has accepted the Venetian ambassador to compliment him on accession. Dated Venice, 28 January 1761. (folio 28)

13. Letter from Mr. Murray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Thanks for the appointment of the young Count Cataneo, to be the King of Prussia’s charge d’affaires. Information respecting colonel Hamilton, and his behaviour when at Venice. The Republic is arriving by sea and land, but in a very slovenly way. News of an armistice between the French and allied troops. Dated Venice, 8 April 1761. (folio 30)

14. Letter from Mr. Murray to Mr. Mitchell. News from Mr. Porter at Constantinople, of the reduction of all the French possessions in India. (In cypher). Dated Venice, 24 July 1761. (folio 32)

15. Letter from Sir Horace Mann to Mr. Mitchell. Thanks for the Intelligence of the Prussian victory near Leignitz. Quarrel between the Pope [Clement XIII] and the King of Portugal [Joseph I]. Dated Florence, 13 September 1760. (folio 34)

16. Letter from Sir Horace Mann to Mr. Mitchell (P.M.) Acknowledgement for the news of the King’s armies in Hesse. Marshall Botta, his report for the King of Prussia, and sentiments with regard to Marshal Broglie’s cordon. Warlike dispositions making by several of the Italian powers. Malta has sent a formal requisition to its knights to repair thither. Dated Florence, 21 March 1761. (folio 37)

17. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Compliments on Mr. Mitchell’s appointment. The Court of Naples persists in the resolution of holding the most exact neutrality. Harmony with the Court of Madrid. The Republic of Genoa has alienated the Island of Corsica to France for ten years, in consideration of an annual payment. Squadrons of M. de la Gallissonniere and Admiral Hawke. Dated Naples, 27 July 1756. (folio 40)

18. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Grief of the Queen of Naples [Maria Amalia] at the restraint placed on her sister [mother?], the Queen of Poland [Maria Josepha], and request of Sir James that the Duke of St. Elizabeth might be allowed to remain with the latter, to carry on the correspondence between the two sisters. Dated Naples, 28 April 1757. (folio 43)

19. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Satisfaction at the command of the army of observation being given to the Duke of Cumberland [Prince William]. Misrepresentation of the King of Prussia’s conduct in Saxony with regard to the Queen of Poland. The sentiments of the Court remain the same. The Abbé Natalis, author of several pieces in favour of the Corsicans, has been murdered at Rome. General Italian news. Dated Naples, 28 April 1757. (folio 45)

20. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Thanks of their Sicilian Majesties for Mr. Mitchell’s good offices in obtaining the entrée libre for their Minister to the Queen of Poland. Friendly disposition of their majesties towards the King of Prussia. Austrian account of the army of Marshal Daun. Dated Naples, 31 May 1757. (folio 48)

21. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Acceptable news of the surrender of Breslau. State of the Austrian troops. The Toulon squadron has put into Carthagena to repair damage. Death of Sir Benjamin Keene at Madrid. Dated Naples, 18 January 1758. (folio 51)

22. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Thanks for the Intelligence of the Prussia victory over the Russian’s. Picture of the King of Prussia coming from Venice for Sir James. Melancholy of His Catholic Majesty [Ferdinand VI], since the death of the Queen [Barbara]. French accounts of the actions at St. Lass. Dated Naples, 27 October 1758. (folio 53)

23. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Chiefly a letter of compliment. Indisposition of his Catholic Majesty. Dated Naples, 26 December 1758. (folio *54)

24. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) News of the death of the King of Spain daily expected. On which of the infants the choice will fall for the throne of the Sicilies, is a secret. The French are preparing to evacuate Corsica. Dated Naples, 6 March 1759. (folio 56)

25. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. The King of Spain (Charles III) has given the Kingdom of the two Sicilies to his third son, Don Ferdinand. Account of the ceremony. Their Catholic Majesties sail for Barcelona. Dated Naples, 9 October 1759. (folio *53)

26. Letter from Sir James Gray to Mr. Mitchell. Sir James is invested with the order of the Bath by the King of Naples [Ferdinand IV], at the desire of the King [George III]. Dated Naples, 2 June 1761. (folio *56)

27. Letter from the Earl of Rochford [William Nassau de Zuylestein] to Sir Andrew Mitchell. Appointment of his Lordship to the ambassador to France, and audience obtained of H.M.C. Majesty [Louis XV]. Dated Paris, 11 November 1766. (folio 58)

28. Letter from the Earl of Rochford [William Nassau de Zuylestein] to Sir Andrew Mitchell. (P.M.) Thanks for the copy of the King of Prussia’s ‘Eloge’ on his nephew. Report of sending troops to Corsica, to put a stop to the affairs between the Republic of Genoa, and Paoli. Dated Paris, 31 March 1768. (folio 60)

29. Letter from Mr. Walpole to Sir Andrew Mitchell. (P.M.) In consequence of the appointment of Lord Rochford to be Secretary of State, Mr. Walpole remains charged with the King’s affairs. The Earl of Harcourt [Simon Harcourt] is appointed Ambassador. Dated Paris, 17 November 1768. (folio 70)

30. Letter from Mr. Walpole to Sir Andrew Mitchell. (P.M. and chiefly in cypher). The French nation in general is averse to the project against Corsica. Representations made by Lord Rochford. Views of France in undertaking the expedition. Treaty of commerce between the Courts of Versailles and Berlin. Count Guignes is to proceed to Berlin. Remarks on his mission. Inquiries after a quintuple alliance concluded at Warsaw in 1768. Arrival of Lord Harcourt. [Not dated]. (folio 66)

31. Letter from the Earl of Harcourt to Sir Andrew Mitchell. Report of a treaty between France, Spain, Austria, and Prussia, by which Silesia is to be guaranteed to the King of Prussia, on condition of his taking no part in the troubles of the North. Means resorted to by the French Ministers to raise money. Accounts from Constantinople. French East India Company. (In cypher). Dated Paris, 17 April 1769. (folio 63)

32. Letter from Mr. Walpole to Sir Andrew Mitchell. (P.M. and partly in cypher). The Earl of Harcourt returns to England, and Mr. Walpole is appointed Minister in his absence. Coldness with which the Prussian minister is received by the Court. Commercial projects of the King of Prussia. Offer of France to send a Charge d’affaires to Russia. Transactions in Corsica, and conduct of Paoli. Dated Paris, 5 June 1769. (folio 72)

33. Letter from the Earl of Harcourt to Sir Andrew Mitchell. The sentiments of the French Court towards Prussia continue the same. Umbrage given by the interview between the Emperor [Joseph II] and the King of Prussia. Solicitations to France for support, on the part of the confederates. State of finances. Dissentions in the English Ministry. Preparations for the Dauphin [Louis Auguste]’s wedding. (In cypher). Dated Paris, 14 April 1770. (folio 63)

34. Letter from Mr. Gordon to Sir Andrew Mitchell. (P.M.) General remarks on affairs. Lord Rochford will probably go to Paris. Mr. Gordon has asked for leave in his absence, to go to spa. Dated Brussels, 6 July 1766. (folio 75)

35. Letter from Mr. Gordon to Sir Andrew Mitchell. (P.M.) Enclosing paper from the Marchioness d’Argelles, containing inquiries relative to a Mr. Guichardt. English Minister. Dated Brussels, 11 May 1767. (folio 77)

36. Letter from Mr. Gordon to Sir Andrew Mitchell. (P.M.) Relative to Monsieur Kleist’s being a member of the Teutonic order. General remarks. Dated Brussels, 18 January 1768. (folio 79)

37. Letter from Mr. Porter to Mr. Mitchell. If the success of the King of Prussia had continued, the Porte [Ottoman Empire] would have been induced to accede to any treaty that could have been desired. Conversation held with the Grand Vizier [Koca Ragıp Pasha] of the new Sultan [Mustafa III], on the situation of affairs with France, and the advantage of assisting the King of Prussia. Mr. Rexin’s management in money affairs. Fate of Mr. Varennes. In a postscript is added the news of the reduction of Breslay having arrived. (In cypher). Dated Constantinople, 23 December 1757. (folios 85 and 81)

38. Letter from Mr. Porter to Mr. Mitchell. Transmitting dispatches from Mr. Rexin. Views of the Porte. Dated Stambole, in the East, 14 February 1759. (folio 89)

39. Letter from Mr. Porter to Mr. Mitchell. Proceedings at the Porte. All the Mahometan slaves in the Kingdom of Russia are demanded to be delivered. Sentiments of the Vizier on an alliance with the King of Prussia, in a private audience with M. Rexin. Efforts made by Mr. Porter. Character of the Vizier. (In cypher). Dated Constantinople, 8 April 1759. (folio 91)

i. (Enclosed). Copy of a letter from Mr. Porter to Mr. Pitt. (Secret). Wishes of the Porte with respect to the King [George II]’s entering into a positive engagement with them, and proper powers to be given to Mr. Porter. Dated Constantinople, 8 April 1759. (folio 95)

40. Letter from Mr. Porter to Mr. Mitchell. The King [George III] has granted Mr. Porter leave to return, and the Honourable Mr. Grenville succeeds. Recommendation of Mr. Peters, a Gentleman in Mr. Porter’s service, to obtain a pension from the King of Prussia, through M. Eichel. Dated Constantinople, 17 July 1761. (folio 97)

41. Letter from Mr. Porter to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) Requesting information on the safest route through Germany. Dated Jazry in Moldavia, 4 July 1762. (folio 99)

42. Letter from Mr. Porter to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) On the same subject. Nearly in the same terms as the last. Dated Jazy in Moldavia, 4 July 1762. (folio 101)

43. Letter from Mr. Porter to Mr. Mitchell. (P.M.) A letter of friendship and civility. Dated Hanover, 18 September 1762. (folio 103)