ANOTHER GREAT NAVAL HISTORICAL DOCUMENT FIND FROM MYANTIQUECOLLECTION2020 

FOR SALE TODAY IS THIS IMPORTANT ORIGINAL RETAINED COPY OF THE THREAT OF NAVAL WAR BETWEEN THE UK AND HOLLAND. IT IS A HANDWRITTEN PRIVATE DISPATCH WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY SIR JAMES GRAHAM FIRST LORD ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET TO SIR JOHN GORE HIS VICE ADMIRAL!!! 

SIR JAMES GRAHAM:

Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet GCB PC (1 June 1792 – 25 October 1861) was a British statesman. He was descended from a family long famous in the  history of the English border. He was the eldest son of Sir James Graham, 1st Baronet, by Lady Catherine, eldest daughter of the 7th Earl of Galloway. In 1819, he  married Fanny Callender, youngest daughter of James Campbell, of Ardkinglas. Sir James was created LL.D. at Cambridge in 1835, was Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, 1840. He was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1830 to 1834 when he resigned on account of the government pressing for a reform of the Irish Church. He became Secretary of the Home Department from September 1841 to July 1846 and again First Lord of the Admiralty from December 1852 until February 1855. He was a member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Deputy Lieutenant for county of Hertfordshire. He represented Hull from 1818 to 1820for St Ives in 1820; for Carlisle from 1826 until 1829 for East Cumberland from 1830 until 1837 for Pembrokeshire  District from 1838 until 1841for Dorchester from 1841 until 1847for Ripon from 1847 until July 1852and was again returned for Carlisle from 1852 until his death in 1861. Graham Land in Antarctica is named after  him.

DESCRIPTION:

This is an important and poignant letter of threat as instructed by King William IV. (known as the sailor king as he spent some years in the royal navy) It is a 3 sided letter concerning the possibility of the Dutch Wars in 1832 and is a fine retained copy of a private naval dispatch to Vice Admiral Sir John Gore dated November 7th 1832 concerning a ‘crisis with Holland’. A portion of the letter reads ‘...His Majesty has been advised to lay an embargo on all merchant ships and vessels bearing the Dutch flag. Consider the distance of your station and still entertaining a hope that the differences with Holland may be speedily and satisfactorily adjusted we have not thought it prudent to direct you at once to give effect to the embargo but if the Dutch fit out privateers or capture a single British Vessel you must sweep the Indian seas of their flag...’

It is fully autograph signed by Sir James Graham and is written verso to Sir John gore who at that time was Vice Admiral of the British fleet. The letter is in great condition with hardly any browning and is quite legible as the hand writing is very good.

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