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Document number: 2677
Date: 11 Apr 1833
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: PHILLIPPS Samuel March
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA33-016
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Whitehall

11 April 1833

Sir

I am directed by Viscount Melbourne <1> to acknowledge the receipt of your letter <2> of the 4 Instant, with its enclosure, in favor of John Callis, who was Convicted of Larceny at the last Assizes for the County of Wilts and Sentenced to Seven Years Transportation: – and I am to acquaint you, that under all the circumstances of the Case, his Lordship has felt himself warranted in giving orders for the removal of the Prisoner to the General Penitentiary for Confinement for a limited period, instead of being Transported. –

I have the Honor to be
Sir
Your most Obedient humble Servant

S M. Phillipps

H. F. Talbot Esq MP.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848).

2. Letter not located.