Add MS 6871

Volume LXVIII of the papers of Mr. Andrew Mitchell, subsequently Sir Andrew Mitchell.Miscellaneous papers. Folio.

1. Petit Tableau en abrégé des Revennes du Roy l’anneé, 1740. Tableau des Depenses du Roy, pendant l’année 1741. Explication etc. (folio 1)

2. Rule for determining the population of a country, as applied to France. A paper in Mr. Maclaurin’s handwriting. (folios 4-5)

3. Specification des preces d’artillerie des fusils, des étendarts, des drapaux et des munitiors pris dans Berlin. (folio 6)

4. The Lord President’s [Duncan Forbes] first letter [to the Marquis of Tweeddale [John Hay]] about the state of the Revenue of Scotland, as affected by smuggling tea and brandy. Dated Stony Hill, 1 January 1742. (folio 8) [See Add MS 6857]

5. The Lord President’s second letter, on the same subject. Dated Edinburgh, 18 August 1743. (folio 20)

6. (Enclosed). Resolution of the General Commission of the Royal Boroughs of Scotland. 6 July 1743. (folio 28)

7. Rule for ascertaining the number of inhabitants in a country, by multiplying by 30 the number baptised, exemplified in the case of Prussia. (French). (folio 30)

8. Exposé de qulques observations à faire pour repandre du jour sur la meteorologie. (folio 31)

9. Memorandum of a conversation with [unknown], in Mr. Mitchell’s handwriting, dated Embercourt, October 1750. (folio 33)

10. Extraits de l’État de Suede pour 1752. (folio 35)

11. Population of Sweden and Finland. (folio 36)

12. Note relative to the importation and exportation of goods at St. Petersburg in 1755. (folio 38)

13. Revenue of Russia, and population. (folio 39)

14. Goods exported from Stockholm, 1755. (folio 40)

15. Liste des nés, des morts, et des Mariages de l’anneé 1758. (folio 41)

16. Direction for cultivating Tettauer Turnips. (French). (folio 42)

17. The same in English. (folio 43)

18. Inscriptions on the coins of Russia, with explanations. (folio 44)

19. Extractura ex notità manuscriptum Bibliothecæ Rhedigerianæ (in Collegio Elizabethæ Vratislaviæ). [Relative to a MS of Froissart]. (folio 45)

20. Memoire concernant les arbres de Pui pour servir de Mats et de Vergnes aux Vaisseaux: à Messeigneurs les administrateurs aiant le Departement de la Marine d’Angleterre: signed Brainwald and De Montgobert. (folio 46) [See folio 195 for a paper belonging to this proposal].

21. Copy of a letter from Major Moncrieff to Mr. Mitchell, relative to Mr. Home [Lord Kames] and his father, both of whom Mr. Mitchell is said to have accused of Jacobitism. Dated Clarges Street, 18 February 1752. (folio 48)

22. Copy of Mr. Mitchell’s letter to the Duke of Newcastle [Thomas Pelham-Holles]. On the same subject, desiring the Duke’s permission to state what has passed, and enclosing a letter from the Earl Morton [James Douglas]. Dated 26 February 1752. (folio 50)

23. Copy of Earl Morton’s letter to Mr. Mitchell. On the same subject. Dated Edinburgh, 20 February 1752. (folio 52)

24. Mr. Mitchell’s declaration [or rather vindication in the affair of Lord Kames]. In his own handwriting, dated March 4th. (folio 54)

25. Account current with G. Warrender. (folio 56)

26. Translation of a letter from a Dutch agent at St. Petersburg, dated 23 March 1756. Sent to Lord Holderness [Robert Darcy] by Colonel Yorke. Relative to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams’s conduct at the Court of St. Petersburg, and the wish of the Empress [Elizabeth] to have him recalled. (folio 57)

27. Copy of a secret letter from Mr. Mitchell to the Earl of Holderness. Detailing the particulars of two conversations held with the King of Prussia. Dated Berlin, 14 May 1756. (folio 62) [See Add MS 6804, Volume I of the Mitchell papers, folio 4b]

28. Mémoirre raisonnée sur la situation presente de l’Allemagne: sent in Mr. Mitchell’s letter to Lord Holderness of 9 July 1756. (folio 67) [See Add MS 6804, Volume I of the Mitchell papers, folio 50]

29. Copy of a secret letter from Mr. Mitchell to Lord Holderness. Enclosing a paper written by the King of Prussia on the existing state of affairs. Dated Berlin, 12 August 1756. (folio 71) [See Add MS 6804, folio 97b]

30. Paper enclosed in the preceding letter, dated 9 August 1756. (folio 73)

31. Copy of the memoire presented by Monsieur Klinggræff to the Court of Vienna. Dated Vienna, 2 September 1756. (folio 77)

32. Duplicate copy of the above memoire. (folio 79)

33. Copie de la Réponse au Memoire presenté par Monsieur de Klinggræff, le 2 Sept. 1756, et Vienne le 7 Sept. 1756. (folio 81)

34. Duplicate copy of the above reply. (folio 83)

35. A third copy of the above reply. (folio 85)

36. Copy of a memoire or paper from the King of Prussia on the replies receive from the Court of Vienna and Dresden. (folio 87)

37. Duplicate copy of the above paper. (folio 89)

38. Separate article of the treaty between Prussia and Austria, 15 February 1763, by which the allies of either power are named, who are to be included in the treaty. Dated at Dresden, 12 March 1763. (folio 93)

39. Projet de Réponse à la Replique de l’Angleterre. (folio 95)

40. Précis de la Réponse, que chancellier d’Etat et de Cour à donnee de bouche à Mr. Keith le 9 Mai 1756, au sujet de la communication que ce Minsitre a faite à la Cour de Vienne, du Traite de Westminster, du 16 Janv. 176. (folio 97)

41. Copy of a minute made concerning foreign ministers, 16 November 1749. (folio 99)

42. Form of a Minister’s bill of extraordinaries, etc. (folio 101)

43. Copy of a letter from Lord Harrington [William Stanhope]’s office, to the ministers in the northern provinces, enclosing a table of the sums to be advanced to the messengers on their being sent on journeys. (folios 103 and 104)

44. Description de l’avantage que je fais procurer par ma Proposition pour Ameilleuvur l’artillerie par l’introduction des boulets prepares particulaierement. (folio 105) [See a letter from Captain Seebach to Mr. Mitchell, in Add MS 6859, folio 81]

45. Mémoire relative au sujet d’un ouvrage du Capt. du Mont, sur les operations de l’armeé en 1762. (folio 107)

46. Rough notes by Mr. Mitchell, relative to the rate of exchange. (folio 109)

47. La plus grande et la plus petite Hauteur du Barométer et du Thermométer observée à Berlin, pour tous les mois des années 1761, 1762, et 1763. (folio 110)

48. Avis recus de l’armée allieé, du camp de Kirchayn, le 1 Oct. 1762. (folio 114)

49. Memoire concernant des Bois de Chene, tant pour servir à la construction des Vaisseaux que pour des mairains a sonneler: a Messeigneurs les administrateurs de l’amirauté, ayant le Departement de la Marine d’Angleterre. Dated at Berlin, 28 May 1768. (folio 116)

50. Projet de soumission pour une libraison de Bois de Constructions, mesurée sur le pied ordinaire du Rhin. (folio 119)

51. Copy of a letter from the Prince of Bevern to the King of Prussia. (In Germany). Dated Stetting, 20 March 1762. (folio 120). [See Add MS 6851, folio 9]

52. Copy of a letter from the Ministers of the Protestant Church in Prussia to Lord Clive. Recommending to his protection a public institution founded in Prussia. Dated Breslau, 10 September 1767. [See Add MS 6858, folio *123]

53. Extrait de Lettre de Madrid, du 2 d’Avril, relative to the expulsion of the Jesuits. 1767. (folio 124)

54. Extrait du Courier du Bas-Rhin, No. 3 10 Janv. 1770. (folio 126) [See Add MS 6810, folios 262b and 265b]

55. Extrait d’une Lettre de Hainer de, à une lieue d’Unna, du 6 Juillet 1761. Advices relative to the allied army. (folio 127)

56. Ministers of Parliament. Dated London, 20 May 1757. (In French). (folio 131)

57. Copy of a letter from the Board of Trade to Lord [Charles] Townshend. Dated Whitehall, 1 April 1715. (folio 133)

58. Causes des nombreuses faillites que ont suivi celle des Freres de Neuville à Amsterdam, au mois d’Aout 1763. (Traduction). (folio 136)

59. Instructions from the King of Prussia to Monsieur de Varennes, sent as secret against to Turkey, dated at Potsdam, 27 June 1756. (folio 140) [See Add MS 6804, folio 54]

60. Intelligence about French intrigues in England. 1755. (In French). (folio 142)

61. Memoire from the Hanoverian Ministry, dated at Hanover, 30 April 1756. (In French). (folio 144)

62. Duplicate of a paper enclosed in Lord Holderness’s despatches to Mr. Mitchell of 11 May 1756. (folio 146)

63. Projet, etc. Duplicate of a paper enclosed in Lord Holderness’s despatch of 11 May 1756. (folio 148)

64. Journal du Siege de Schweidnitz, l’année 1762. (folio 148)

65. Printed paper relative to the movements of Prince Henry’s army, dated from Freyberg, 9 November 1762. (In French). (folio 156)

66. Essay de quelques Reflexions Politiques: au sujet du Pays de Liege. (folio 157)

67. Projet de Soumission pour une Livraison d’environ huit à neuf mille arbres de Pin etc. (folio 195. [The paper belongs to, and ought to have follows No. 20, folio 46]

68. Lettre Historique d’un Seigneur Polonois à son ami qui s’est retiré en Saxe pendant les troubles presentes du Royaume, en date de Mars 1770. (folio 196)

69. Exacte relation donneé par une personne qui etoit presente à la Bataille [entre les Russes et les Turcs] comme suit, en date de Malthe, 29 Juillet 1770. (folio 202)

70. Details relative to the subsistence of a body of 40,000 troops. (French). (folio 204)

71. Notes in Mr. Mitchells handwriting relative to the commerce of the Indians, Egyptians, Tyrians, Persians, etc. (folio 218)

72. Historic notes in Mr. Mitchell’s handwriting, stating the numbers slain in the civil contests between the Houses of York and Lancaster. (folio 223)

73. Of the Taille in France. (folio 224)

74. Prospectus de la Pompe Fimebre de feu très haute, tres puissante, très excellente Princesse Madame la Campagneé des Indes etc. (Satirical). (folio 226)

75. Verses in English, being an Epitaph on [unknown]. (folio 228)

76. Note sent to Mr. Mitchell by the author of the memoires on the affairs of Russia, from 1727 to 1744. He encloses as a specimen of his work, the character of Count Ostermann, and a table of the contents. (folio 232)

77. Portrait on Caracterè du Comte Ostermann. [Referred to in the last]. (folio 230)

78. Table des Matieres. [Referred to above]. (folio 234)