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Reference | Title | Date |
GD113 | Papers of the Innes family of Stow, Peeblesshire | 1566-1832 |
GD113/4 | Papers of George Innes | |
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Country code |
GB |
Repository code |
234 |
Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
Reference |
GD113/4/160 |
Title |
Personal and business correspondence addressed to Gilbert Innes of Stow |
Dates |
1791-1793 |
Access status |
Open |
Location |
On site |
Description |
Arranged in bundles: 1-50 51-100 101-50 151-210 194-210 [duplicate numbering] 211-50 251-300 [includes two items numbered 297] 301-50 351-96. Including: 25-6. 1793 january 25. London. Henry Thornton, economist. Captain Taylor's case; offers to read the case if it is to be brought before a general court; is sorry that the Royal Bank business is not yet brought to a conclusion but it seems it waits for Mr Pitt's attention. Encloses letter from R. Thornton, his brother, on Captain Taylor's case.
28. 1792 january 23. London. William Grant. Express is arrived with accounts that the French king was to be executed the previous monday at 12, but another letter gives 4 oclock on the monday; commotions expected.
34. n.d. [1793 january 20. Edinburgh]. Henry Mackenzie. The 'Coal Concert'; Joseph Grant, bearer of letter, has applied for the double basses and kettle drum and the music; assumes there is no objection to this.
38. 1793 january 12. Stirling Castle. Captain Thomas Scott. Mr Macdougall's accounts; news from Dundalk of a skirmish there with people calling themselves the defenders; `this [Stirling] turns out to be a very so so quarter, no kind of society whatever either in the town or country, and what is still worse, no possibility of my getting leave of absence from it for the present'.
39. 1793 january 6. Dundalk Lt. George Scott. First hand news from Dundalk, describing the defenders as a large body of roman catholics who assemble at night to attack protestant houses; writer commanded to escort a party of convicts to Cork; is not happy about this at all.
41. 1793 february 14. Dundalk. Lt. George Scott. Further tidings of writer's expedition to Cork which went better than expected; the convicts behaved well and were happy to change a gaol for a ship where they were well fed and kindly treated; possible purchase of Tytler's company; Belfast the centre of disturbances.
42. [1793 february 20. London] William Grant. Fears the lottery will prove an ugly scrape; funds are down.
46. 1793 february 15. Sorn George Gordon, minister at Sorn. His glebe.
47. 1793 february 18. Leith Bank. James Ker. Demands `I beg you will cease to take upon you the office of inquisitor into my conduct as manager of the Leith Bank. We wish to continue on an amicable footing with the Royal Bank & I am conscious of not having done any thing to give just cause of offence. If the Royal Bank have any questions to ask, or if they think they have any reason to complain of the conduct of any part of our Establishment, let them state their questions or complaints officially here, & we shall endeavour, with all due civility, to give them reasonable satisfaction ... You'll please remember that though not quite so rich, we are as independant as any Bank whatever'.
68. [1793] february 26. 2 oclock William Grant. Further news of the lottery; has dined with Carteret [Scott] and drunk recipient's health in port; `this is no time for claret'.
81. 1793 march 18. London. Francis Carteret Scott. Financial affairs; was in the House of Commons on the day of the budget and `never spent a day more to my mind'; heard Pitt fox and Sheridan, none of whom writer had heard before; he was in the front seat of the gallery and did not lose a single word.
111. 1793 april 18. Bruges. Captain Thomas Scott. Has arrived the previous day with the rest of the British forces commanded by the Duke of York; future plans unknown; it is said that they are to be joined by a body of hanoverian and hessian troops; is bargaining for horses.
114. [1793 april 27]. 4 oclock. Downing St. Robert Dundas, lord advocate. Sends evidence given by recipient the previous day before the committee; he is requested to make up an abstract of this to be inserted in the report to the House.
116. [1793 april 27.] saturday morning. Kings Arms Yard. Henry Thornton. Need to get bills of exchange included among the securities on which the commissioners under the new act may lend the five million of Exchequer bills; suggests that recipient should speak to the Lord Advocate or any other gentlemen of the committee.
122. 1793 may 10. Glasgow. David Dale. Refers to two applications to the board, one from James Menteith, younger, of Blantyre Cotton mills, ands the other from writer; details of this latter loan, which will enable him to continue to employ a great number of people who depend upon him for their daily bread, including more than 300 orphans and destitute children, besides many hundreds of widows and children who receive wages and live in houses at the works built for them by writer; also a great number of highland people prevented by him from emigrating to America; points out that he has since 3rd curt. sent to Lanark Mills alone £800 stg. for paying the wages of the work people, and that until very lately, the weekly wages paid to the people employed in the works in which he is concerned amounted to £1,200 stg. About three months previously writer sold his share of the Blantyre Cotton Mills to James Menteith, who is now sole proprietor; he has also applied for a share of the loan to enable him to carry on the works and to keep the people employed.
124. 1793 may 12. 2 Bridge Row London. James Smith, partner in house of Lindsay Smith and Co., Glasgow. They expect aid at this crisis from the Exchequer bills now to be issued under the sanction of parliament; expects recipient as one of the commissioners to lend his assistance to the public in general and more especially to those concerned in manufactures in Scotland.
132. 1793 may 20. Glasgow Robert Scott Moncrief. Exchequer bills; the Muirkirk Company's bill for £4400; John Menteith's application; discounts.
134. 1793 may 18. Glasgow David Dale. His application; need the loan immediately.
140. 1793 may 17. Glasgow. David Dale. The loan; is hurried with business.
141. 1793 may 16-17. Glasgow Robert Scott Moncrief. Financial matters; applications of Messrs. Dale and Menteith; Mr Dennistoun of Colgrain and Provost Hamilton have advanced money to the company.
144. 1793 may 15. Edinburgh Marion Burnet to Gilbert innes, her father. Mama [Effie Burnet] is very ill; she wishes to see recipient; Dr Dewar attends her three times a day.
145-7. 1793 may 15. Glasgow Robert Scott Moncrief. Application for a loan from Robert Monteith and co.
149. 1793 may 28. Glasgow. Gilbert Hamilton, provost of Glasgow. Hopes for assistance for the west of Scotland; need to re establish confidence and credit.
151. 1793 may 27. Edinburgh. Marion and Jean Burnet and William McLaurin to Gilbert Innes, their father. Mama [Effie Burnet] was buried on sunday [in the Canongate churchyard]; they have provided a nurse for the infant; William does not think the funeral was well managed.
153. 1793 may 25. Glasgow David Dale. Sends a bond and asks recipient to receive the Exchequer bills on writer's account; money required by Mr Alexander of Ballaneyle.
154. 1793 may 25. Glasgow. Robert Scott Moncrief. Things continue to grow worse and worse in Glasgow; Messrs Dennistouns have stopped payment; this will have a dreadful effect and there is no saying what the end of it will be.
156. 1793 may 24. Glasgow. Robert Scott moncrief. Application from James Dunlop; fears that Glasgow will not get any considerable aid from the Board; scene of distress occasioned by stopping discounts and stagnation in the sale of goods.
163. 1793 june 1. Glasgow. David Dale. Gives it as his opinion that sureties offered for William Wallace in London are good.
164. 1793 june 2. London. Robert Scott moncrief. Mr Dale's affairs; John Black's loan; asks if anything can be done for john Pattison.
172. [1793] may 31. Marion Innes to Gilbert innes, her brother. As he wished them to take some charge of the Canongate family [the Burnets] they got mr Simpson to bring the two eldest girls that evening; they were received with many tears but they shed none themsevles; assures recipient that she is not prejudiced against his family but would have been happy if the girls had shown more sensibility on this occasion; she is pleased with them otherwise; difficult to see what is best and how to take charged of the motherless family.
176. 1793 may 30. Edinburgh. Marion Burnet and William McLaurin. They have been out to see the young child at Blackhall; she is well; William adds that they have had Effie's body [in the Canongate churchyard] watched all night by two men `as we suspect the surgeons have a desire to open her'.
210. 1791 september 28. Linlithgow Thomas Dallas, procurator. His history since he left school, including many years as a clerk in Jamaica; little business as a procurator, not enough to bring up his children; asks for loan of £12.
205 [duplicate]. 1791 july 25. Montego Bay Francis Carteret Scott. Recommends Mr Ker, the owner of three sugar estates.
217. saturday morning [1791 november 12]. College St. Eleanora Russell. Mr Russell has decided to sell the plates; intends to ask recipient for his advice when an offer is received.
220. 1791 january 17. Bath William Grant. Business; has received a curious letter from Hardy, the musical instrument maker, about a fiddle, which writer decided not to buy; it is in Longman's shop in London.
224. n.d. [1792 january 8 and 9. London]. William Grant. Had stayed two days with Robertson, the Bakewell of Berwickshire; `Trotter will have told you how we fiddled and drank'; ?Jarnowick has composed two beautiful new concertos; at present he gives lessons to the African boy, [George] Bridgetower `who will soon be a powerfull rival to every first fiddle in London ... I was this morning at the burial of a friend of my uncles who died at Hackney & was amus'd with the account of a scene that happened respecting the funeral the day before. The undertaker came to Harry who had given him orders & told him the burial must be delay'd till 4 oclock as the parson said he would see him damn'd before he read any funeral service at one being particularly engag'd at that hour to a turkey & chine. Callender upon this flew in such a rage at the undertaker as made him think it prudent to decamp with the utmost precipitation & in a few hours after he receiv'd a note from him that he had with much difficulty prevaild with the parson who accordingly went thro' the service with tolerable decorum tho' under evident apprehensions of the turkey's being over roasted. I got a scarf by the bargain which I barter'd with a pretty girl for a kiss on my way home'.
246. 1791 november 28. Montego Bay Jamaica Francis Carteret Scott. A cruise; they intended to land on the coast of Cuba to have some sport with their guns, but the wind prevented this; news from San Domingo makes writer apprehensive of a rebellion.
250. 1792 january 26. Bath. William grant. Musical prodigies in Bath - Miss Glasse, a girl of thirteen who sings as well as [Mrs] Billington, and Master [Thomas] Welsh, a singing boy.
253. 1792 january 1. San Lucar de Barrameda. John Hunter, consul at Seville and San Lucar. Printed circular intimating that writer's partnership with Henry Stonor and George Hathorn has terminated; he is to carry on the business under firm of Hunter and Co., with his children, who are minors.
264. 1792 february 20 William Grant. Admires playing of ?Yanovietz, the new violin player; `the novelties in his playing are running all over the finger board in octaves with as much quickness & neatness as Stabilini plays a common allegno passage, & the double stop passages in the same manner. He has a beautiful shake & the best staccato bow I have heard since Lamotte. His style of playing is extremely mark'd & highly finish'd. he executes all his quick passages at the extreme point of the bow yet the tone seems brilliant'; writer does not know whether he will continue to like the player as well as Jarnowick; complains that Cramer's quartet was `plain roast & boil indeed'.
275. 1792 March 22. Edinburgh James Hardie. Sends music belonging to the old Catch Club and hopes it is worthy of a place in recipient's collection.
304. 1792 May 25. London. William Grant. Complains that abolition of the slave trade is execrable folly in the present state of affairs; expects it will either be thrown out by the Lords, `or some how or other get a go-bye'; evidence being offered against the abolition by the West Indian proprietors, claiming the good treatment of the slaves in general in `our' islands and the ineffectual relief that will be given to the negroes in Africa; thinks that Carteret Scott should come forward on this occasion; the funds have fallen
328. [1792] August 13. Paris. Natale Corri. If writer and the two Miss Giolivettis can obtain passports they will set off on Thursday; it is difficult to get passports after what happened on the 10th [Louis XVIII suspended and imprisoned in the Temple]; they must endeavour to get out of this dreadful place soon or they will not get out at all; they have no money to bring them to London but luckily writer borrowed money from Mr Puppo to get there; ends 'I'm perfectly stiupifaid by the smoak of the guns and the noice of the paikes and horror of the sight of six thousand dead bodys in the public streets of Paris and many more to be yet executed'. Postscript is a little more cheerful: 'I have found Mr Puppo (with whom I now leave [?live]) scoulding 50 musicians which are under his direction at the Italian Opera and not withstanding he pretends that his orquestre is much better then the Edinburgh one'.
329. 1792 august 7. Paris. Natale Corri. Informs reccipient truimphantly that writer and Mr Puppo have got Mademoiselle Joviletti, a scholar [student] and intended spouse of Mr Playel; she would prefer an engagment out of France at present; her mother would remain in Paris and her younger sister would accompany her to Edinburgh; need to look sharp to secure her; terms offered.
332. 1792 august 4. Paris. Natale Corri. Details of various singers who may or may not be enticed to perform in Edinburgh; hopes to get out of Paris before he is hung and back to Old Reekie.
340. 1792 july 23. London. Natale Corri. Cannot get Madame Negri; proposes to go to italy in search of singers for the Edinburgh concerts; asks for letters to be directed to Turin.
343. 1792 july 19. Burton Agnes. Janet Drummond [Mrs Home]. Rejoicings at Burton Agnes on birthday of Sir Griffith; would like to return to Edinburgh but [Ann] the poor lassie is not well; `this is a very charming & even magnificent place, but hame is hame was it ever so hamely. I do not regret coming here, and shall always reckon this among my most agreeable visits had I poor Ann safe upon Leith Walk'.
348. 1792 september 3. Colonel G[eorge] Burnet [an infant, son of Gilbert Innes, written for him by Jean Burnet, his sister], to [Effie Burnet,] his mother. Needs a drum for the grand review the following day; it costs sixpence; promises that if he gets it he will not ask for his saturday's halfpence for six weeks. Postscript instructs recipient to leave the money with Betty that night.
353. 1792 sept. 25. Edinburgh Charles Theodore D'Asti. His marriage to a young lady from a boarding school in Dumfries; has come to Edinburgh in hopes of securing an engagement in the theatre, circus or concert, after a spell of teaching in St Andrews; his wife is ill and they have been forced to pawn most of their clothes; asks for help and points out that he was employed in St Cecilia's for one season, and could play there again on the violin, `cello, tenor or French horn.
360. 1792 september 1. Colinton Dr John Walker, botanist, minister at Colinton. Interest for Matthew Murray, a candidate for one of the places in the Infirmary; details of his career.
373. 1792 october 11. Edinburgh. Natale Corri. Offers a small collection of Italian catches taken from the cries of sellers of garden stuff, toy peddlers etc. in the streets of Rome, set to music; Mr Horsburgh has already sold the grand piano forte intended for the concert hall but he will have another by wednesday.
379. 1792 october 28. Scarbro. Jos. Reinagle. Is prepared to come to Edinburgh but would like £50 salary; this is not much and he thinks his services would be worth that amount. |
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