L30/14/119/3

Sent from Florence 25 February 1783, received 17 March:

1783

From: 1783 To: 1783

Not surprised to receive no answer to letter of 3 months ago in view of Lord Grantham's preoccupation "with most essential and important transactions". The commission of King's minister at Turin is charged with pension of £1,000 per annum net to Sir William Lynch "it might occasion some difficulty in the appointment of a person invested with the Character of Envoy Extraordinary etc. and the circumstance of the Marquis de Cordon's being soon to come home might protract the sending a Minister of high rank and leave a long vacancy at that Court as has often been the case". Mr Lyston now at Turin is to go with Lord Mountstuart to Madrid; offers services if vacancy likely to last some time "and the chargè d'affaires should have the usual appointments, as I once enjoyed, after Mr Mackenzie had left the Court of Turin and no Ministers had yet been named to reimplace him". Write to me at Mr Martin Banquier à Turin or at Mr Lyston's. P.S. May I present bill of £200 for extraordinary disbursements while being charged with affairs at Court of Turin 1780 and 1781 during Lord Mountstuarts' absence; obtained it in 1762 when Lord Egremont and in 1765 when General Conway were secretaries of state "at which times I had no appointments or Compensation"

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Grantham,
Lynch, William,
Lyston,
Mountstuart,
Mackenzie,
Egremont,
Conway