OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR CHAS, HANBURY WILLIAMS, K. B.

AMBASSADOR TO THE COURTS OF RUSSIA, SAXONY, &c.

FROM THE ORIGINALS

IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS GRANDSON

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ESSEX:

WITH NOTES BY

HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD.

IN THREE VOLUMES, WITH PORTRAITS.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

EDWARD JEFFERY AND SON, PALL-MALL.

19463.11.10

HARVARD

COLLEGE

JAN 10 1912

LIBRARY

Gift of Charles Jackson of Boston (3 vols)

T. C. HANSARD, PRINTER, Peterboro'-court, Fleet-street, London.

Harvard College Library

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ols, 8vo, portrait,

1822

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