Royal Navy admiral (1786-1877) who took part in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and is best remembered for concluding the anti-slavery Moresby Treaty with Seyyid Said, limiting the Indian Ocean slave trade by preventing the importation of slaves to British holdings in India and the Indian Ocean from land ruled by Omani Arabs in East Africa. ALS, one page, 8 x 12.75, August 13, 1824. Handwritten letter to William Slade in London, reporting on a prize ordered "for the use of the Austrian and British forces" and quoting from General Nugent's report: "The enemy's loss in the different actions surpass'd our whole force we took 1350 Prisoners, 70 Pieces of Cannon besides ammunition stores of every kind, and a considerable part of the prisoners destined for Venice." Addressed on the reverse by Moresby, over which has been written a series of related questions in an unknown hand. In very good condition, with soiling and chipping to edges, and a rusty circular paperclip impression to the top.
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