Letter: to the Right Honorable Lord Sheffield /by George Chalmers of the Office of Trade, Whitehall, 1802 Dec 22.

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Letter: to the Right Honorable Lord Sheffield /by George Chalmers of the Office of Trade, Whitehall, 1802 Dec 22.

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George Chalmers, chief clerk of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, expressed the opinion that England had relinquished all claims to land west of the Mississippi under the treaties of 1763 and 1783. The letter is inserted in a volume containing the "Report of a Secret Committee of the American Congress on the Policy of Obtaining New Orleans and the Floridas," which is bound with two other pamphlets on the Louisiana question.

5 p.; 23 cm.

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Chalmers, George, 1742-1825

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George Chalmers (1742-1825) was a British historian, civil servant, antiquarian, and author. He was born at Fochabers, Moray, Scotland, educated at the parish school at Fochabers and at King's College Aberdeen. He went on to study law in Edinburgh and moved to Maryland in 1763 to practice law in Baltimore. As a devout loyalist, he returned to London in September of 1775 when revolutionary discontent grew in the American colonies. He was appointed chief clerk of the committee of the Privy Council...

Sheffield, John Holroyd, earl of, 1735-1821

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John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, was born in Ireland on December 21, 1735, the second son of lawyer Isaac Holroyd (1707-1778) and Dorothy Baker (d. 1777). In 1760, he joined the army, rising to the rank of captain in the regiment of light dragoons known as the Royal Foresters. Shortly after the death of his older brother Daniel in 1762, he spent three years traveling Europe; in Lausanne, Switzerland, he made a lifelong friend in Edward Gibbon, whose autobiography and pos...