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Folios 190-191: Home Riggs Popham. Refers to a recent scurrilous pamphlet with a...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2329/63
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This record is about the Folios 190-191: Home Riggs Popham. Refers to a recent scurrilous pamphlet with a... dating from 1805 Feb 4 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1805 Feb 4
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Folios 190-191: Home Riggs Popham. Refers to a recent scurrilous pamphlet with a view to influencing the public view of him. Advises he received an affidavit from Captain Francis Mason, HMS Rattler and asks that it is annexed to the 5 affidavits attached to his letter of 29 September 1804.
Folios 192-193: enclosed with folios 190-191. Copy affidavit dated 24 January 1804 by Captain Francis Mason, HMS Rattler before John Carter, Mayor, Portsmouth to Sir Home Popham. Responding to hearing about an anonymous pamphlet casting aspersions on the character of Sir Home Popham, advises that on having sailed with him as 4th, then 3rd and 2nd Lieutenant on HMS Romney, he swears that he never heard of, or observed any undue expenditure or waste of stores. Advises he has total respect for his leadership and integrity and he recalls that the circumstances of a cable being cut while in the Bengal River was at the Pilot's request to cross a bank going up to Diamond Harbour. Also advises that the country boats paid to carry the sick to Calcutta and the launch built at Calcutta were absolutely necessary to save lives, particularly the 400 soldiers and Officers wrecked in a Transport going down the Red Sea. Reports that Admiral Blankett's Squadron sent a great proportion of their crews to a Hospital Ship with scurvy.
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- English
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Letters from Captains, Surnames P: 1805, numbers 1-100. (Described at item level)
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