Mar 19, 2015 - Sale 2376

Sale 2376 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 585
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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) GEORGE III; KING OF ENGLAND. Autograph Note Signed, "G.R.," to Lord Sydney (lacking salutation), requesting that he order George Yonge to make appointments for positions at Chelsea Hospital and that he send the names of candidates for the offices formerly held by Mr. Powell, expressing approval of the appointment of a Deputy for Colonel [Henry Edward?] Fox, and inquiring about Lord [Frederick] North's disposition toward the King's offer to him. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; horizontal folds. "Queen's House" [London], 15 March 1783
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"Lord Sydney will acquaint Sir Geo. Yonge by a private letter that the proper Commission must be prepared appointing Mr. Estwick Secretary and Register of Chelsea Hospital and Mr. Henrey Smith joint Agent of the Invalids, and You will also acquaint Mr. Barré of my approbation of both persons.
"Sir Geo. Yonge may also send you the names of the persons he proposes for the other Offices held by Mr. Powell if I can properly name to both; my doubt is whether I can nominate a Deputy to Col. Fox, if that is usual I certainly approve of it."
The postscript: "I am this morning to see Ld. North but have not the smallest guess whether it is with a favourable or declining answer."
Frederick North (1732-1792) became Prime Minister in 1770, leaving the office in 1782 after having lost favor because of the course of the war in the American colonies. The coalition he formed with Charles James Fox created a new government with the Duke of Portland at the head, under which the American Revolutionary War was brought to an end by the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783.