Catalogue description Folio(s) 206-208. Letter from George Rose [Joint Secretary to the Treasury] at Cuffnells...

Folio(s) 206-208. Letter from George Rose [Joint Secretary to the Treasury] at Cuffnells [Lyndhurst, Hampshire,] forwarding a letter from the respectable widow of a naval surgeon. Rose also enquires when news would be gazetted of Nelson meeting with Buonaparte. He had heard from reliable sources at Plymouth that Captain [George Grey] had brought an account of the capture of several ships of the line.

Enclosed is a letter of 22 July to Rose from Eliza Pryce of 21 Leicester Square [Westminster] alerting him to the existence of a letter from Benjamin Smith of Faringdon, Berkshire, delivered by his wife to William Pitt in Downing Street, alleging that that town was wholly under the influence of republicanism and that the infection had spread to the contingent of the 11th Light Dragoons recently quartered there and which had now moved to Windsor.

Annotated: Letter written to Colonel Brownrigg [Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief] on subject 28 July. Mrs Smith to be given an appointment if she is still in town.