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Folios 458-459: Matthew Smith, HMS Comus, Palermo bay. Requests the usual allowances...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2531/148
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This record is about the Folios 458-459: Matthew Smith, HMS Comus, Palermo bay. Requests the usual allowances... dating from 1812 June 28 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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Folios 458-459: Matthew Smith, HMS Comus, Palermo bay. Requests the usual allowances to be paid to him for receiving on board the HM Minister at the Court of Sardinia and his suite for a passage to Cagliari as per the attached copy the order from Rear Admiral Thomas Francis Fremantle.
Folio 459: Thomas Francis Freeman, Rear Admiral, HMS Milford, Palermo Bay, 13 March 1812 to Matthew Smith, HMS Comus. Copy of order directing Matthew Smith to receive on board the Honorable William Hill, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Sardinia and his suite, and to take them to Cagliari, and then to return to Palermo. Edward Suter also mentioned. Attaches a list of the persons received on board HMS Comus on 13 March and discharged at Cagliari on 19 March 1812: William Hill, Minister; William Seale, Secretary; John Boss, Joseph Schultz and William Pottiman, Servants.
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Letters from Captains, Surnames S: 1812, numbers 401-600. (Described at item level)
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Folios 458-459: Matthew Smith, HMS Comus, Palermo bay. Requests the usual allowances...
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