• Reference
    W1/2401
  • Title
    W Belsham to Samuel Whitbread II
  • Date free text
    25 March 1792
  • Production date
    From: 1792 To: 1792
  • Scope and Content
    Hopes he has not exceeded decorum with his attack on [Edmund] Burke. C.J. Fox's approbation; correction of mistake made about William Pitt which writer has corrected. Highly approves of SW's attitude to Russian business. Fox's bill in House of Lords. Remarks & opinions on the proposed reform of the Harpur Trust: Duke of Bedford's attitude. Hopes Wilberforce will be attended with better success with the petition for abolition of the slave trade. SW senior looked very ill when last at Fenlake.
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