Volume 5

The Farington diary / edited by James Greig.

  • Joseph Farington
Date:
[1922?-1928]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Farington diary / edited by James Greig. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    December 21.—According to the Will of the late Duke of Portland, says the St. James's Chronicle every domestic that lived in his service 15 years has an annuity to the amount of his yearly salary, and every other who lived with him a year is to have a years wages. He has left £100 a year for life to His French Cook, exclusive of the Income tax, who has since been taken into the service of the Prince of Wales, at a salary of £200 per annum — On Wednesday, Deer. 20th. the Corporation of London presented an address to His Majesty remarking on the quarrels among His ministers, & requesting an inquiry to be made into the conduct of the late expe¬ dition to Holland. Mr. Ryder, Secry. of State, read His Majesty’s an¬ swer, not noticing the ministerial quarrels and expressing that though the object of the expedition had only in part succeeded He did not think it necessary to order any inquiry into the conduct of the Officers of the Army & Navy who served conjointly ; adding that Parliament wd. in its wisdom require such papers as to them shd. seem fit.— Wellesley Family Posts Marquiss of Wellesley, Now Secretary of State for foreign department. Lord Wellington, Commander in Chief in Spain. Hon : Henry Wellesley, Ambassador to Spain. [William] Wellesley, Secretary of State for Ireland.* 1 * On becoming heir to the estates of his cousin, William Pole, he assumed the additional name of Pole in 1778. He was created Baron Maryborough in 1821, and in 1842 he suc¬ ceeded to the Irish Earldom of Mornington. END OF VOL. V.
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