Minutes of my proceedings during my embassy in Tunis, 1796

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Title: Minutes of my proceedings during my embassy in Tunis, 1796
Creator: Radstock, William Waldegrave, Baron, 1753-1825
Abstract: Manuscript in a single hand, written on vellum, describes in minute detail Waldegrave's negotiations with the Bey and Vizar in Bardo over the exchange of Corsican prisoners held in Tunis after the capture of the Maria Rosa as well as other diplomatic issues arising between Tunis, Algiers, Corsica and Great Britain from the period 22 February 1796 to 19 August 1796. Waldegrave records almost verbatim the negotiations between the Bey and Vizar as well as conversations with the Consul and other British officials and naval officers. Copies of correspondence between Waldegrave, John Jervis, John Sutton, and Gilbert Elliot as well as officers serving on the Barfleur and the French counsel are transcribed at the end of the account which includes details of naval skirmishes fought during this period
Description: William Waldegrave, first Baron Radstock (1753-1825), naval officer, born on 9 July 1753 in Kensington, London, second son of John Waldegrave, third Earl Waldegrave (1718-1784) and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (1724-1784), daughter of the first Earl Gower and Evelyn Pierrepoint.
In English; some French.
Spine label: 11790.
Written on vellum and bound in blue morocco, gold tooling, with silver clasps.
Blue morocco, with silver clasps. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: Sold to Sir Thomas Phillipps at the Strawberry Hill Sale 1842, vi.40; recorded as no. 11790 in the ms. catalogue of the Phillipps Collection; Sotheby's, 29 June 1965 (Phillipps Collection), lot 286, to Seven Gables for W.S. Lewis. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vi, lot 40, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, £23.2.0; recorded in manuscript catalogue of the Phillipps Collection, No. 11790. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965 (Phillipps Collection), lot 286. Seven Gables for W.S. Lewis,
Extent: 1 25 cm. v. (51 p.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English