George Canning to the Prince de Polignac, 1824
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- Box 1, Folder 49
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George Canning, Pavilion, Brighton, to the Prince de Polignac regarding his amazement of the arrest of the daughters of Sir Robert Wilson in Calais as they were leaving France. He asks Prince de Polignac to find out what happened and to "redress it, as far as may be in your power." There is an abstract of the letter from Sir Robert Wilson to George Canning which gives the particulars of the arrest and his assurance that his daughters "had nothing with them but their own private property." January 31, 1824. Jules de Polignac was Prime Minister of France from 8 August 1829 – 29 July 1830.
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