Letter from William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

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Concerns: an incorrect report of a French fleet off Beachy Head which was a Dutch convoy; arrangements for transfer of Admiral Byng from Portsmouth to the Tower [before his court martialling] under heavy guard to protect him from the populace. Written from London. Signed: "Duncannon".

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