Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    W1/2488
  • Title
    Colonel J W Gordon to Samuel Whitbread II
  • Date free text
    30 October 1809
  • Production date
    From: 1809 To: 1809
  • Scope and Content
    Perceval has had to go to highways & hedges to form government. Writer offered Under-Secretary of State for War, or Treasury. Declined, as duration of government uncertain. Comments on the ministers, especially Palmerston & Croker. Despondent account of the Peninsular War & Walcheren expedition. Present office in a state of chaos.
  • Level of description
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