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GEORGE III (1738-1820)
One-page autograph letter, signed 'G.R.', from Weymouth, 3 October 1791, 4°, endorsement on integral leaf, commending the drafts prepared by 'Mr Dundas' which had arrived that morning, and the letter by Edmund Burke with its enclosure, 'they [both] convey the genuine Sentiments of the Writers on the bad example set in France to all established Governments' and regrets that Lord Fitzwilliam does not make his opinions public, 'a conduct that must make the uninformed suppose him indifferent on so material a question'.
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville was Home Secretary 1791-94. The enclosure referred to by the King was a letter to Burke by Lord Fitzwilliam of 18 September 1791, relating to Burke's pamphlet, An Appeal from the New, to the Old Whigs, in consequence of some late discussions in Parliament, relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution [1791]. Fitzwilliam's letter was apparently the first favourable comment on the Appeal which Burke had received from any of the leading figures in Opposition. For Burke's long and important letter to Dundas also sent to the King see Cobban & Smith, eds, The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Vol VI, 1967, pp. 418-422.
One-page autograph letter, signed 'G.R.', from Weymouth, 3 October 1791, 4°, endorsement on integral leaf, commending the drafts prepared by 'Mr Dundas' which had arrived that morning, and the letter by Edmund Burke with its enclosure, 'they [both] convey the genuine Sentiments of the Writers on the bad example set in France to all established Governments' and regrets that Lord Fitzwilliam does not make his opinions public, 'a conduct that must make the uninformed suppose him indifferent on so material a question'.
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville was Home Secretary 1791-94. The enclosure referred to by the King was a letter to Burke by Lord Fitzwilliam of 18 September 1791, relating to Burke's pamphlet, An Appeal from the New, to the Old Whigs, in consequence of some late discussions in Parliament, relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution [1791]. Fitzwilliam's letter was apparently the first favourable comment on the Appeal which Burke had received from any of the leading figures in Opposition. For Burke's long and important letter to Dundas also sent to the King see Cobban & Smith, eds, The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Vol VI, 1967, pp. 418-422.