| Description | Considers Ingersoll's letter and that of Lee's correspondent deserve attention, thinks the original of the former should be detained and the latter narrowly watched, "the lodgers at the hotel in Watling Street have been watched and pumped by a discreet and proper person employed by Lord Rochford, they prove to be as stated in the letter you left with me, french officers from the West Indies, by the way of North America, they do not conceal that they have been in Putnam's Camp, but they speak of him and his troops in a most despicable light, and say that but for their advice they would have made an attempt that would have ruined them, if this is true I don't think we are much obliged to the gentlemen"
Mr Pownall thinks a proclamation for suppressing the rebellion ought to be issued soon
For full description see HMC 14th report available in SRO reading room |