To His Excellency Louis Guillaume Otto Minister Plenipotentiary in England of the French Republic : the humble memorial of the British Sub-contractors for Cloathing and Victualling the French Prisoners of War in Great Britain.
Manuscript memorandum by a group of British sub-contractors charged with the provisioning of French prisoners of war held in England (especially Plymouth) during the Anglo-French War of 1793-1802, asking Louis-Guillaume Otto, a high-ranking diplomat, to procure a sum of money to enable Mr. John Voc...
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| Summary: | Manuscript memorandum by a group of British sub-contractors charged with the provisioning of French prisoners of war held in England (especially Plymouth) during the Anglo-French War of 1793-1802, asking Louis-Guillaume Otto, a high-ranking diplomat, to procure a sum of money to enable Mr. John Vochez to disharge a large outstanding debt to the sub-contractors (the "Memorialists"). The appropriation was to come out of the money to be restored to the French government according to the Preliminary Treaty of Peace entered into by France and Great Britain on October 1, 1801. Vochez was a French merchant and contractor. |
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| Item Description: | Signed by (or on behalf of) twenty-four people, mostly from Plymouth; one from Portsmouth; one from Bristol. Date of production inferred from Louis-Guillaume Otto's title, which was conferred on him after 1800, and from the text, which mentions the Preliminary Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and France "on the 1st of October last [1801]". Final page blank. |
| Physical Description: | 4 pages on 1 folded sheet ; 38 cm |