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LORD PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE 3RD VISCOUNT (1784-1865)
Memorandum initialled and dated ("P. 31/1-56") to an unnamed recipient, 4 pages, 8°, 31 January 1856.
Discussing the abysmal state of the Hospital of Fortifications of Malta: "a better hospital becomes urgently required", and its consequence on English troops in the area, he stresses: "We cannot reckon upon always having the Command of the sea in the Mediterranean. In times of peace our naval force in that sea may often be reduced very low. The French have Toulon and Algiers, both of them have naval stations and from these at the outbreak of a war they might be able to hand out a force superior to ours ... and if our garrison would not have defensive works in which it could maintain itself with ?relieved from England the island would be lost; and once lost would with difficulty be recovered". Mounted in common frame with portrait of print of Palmerston and a brief synopsis of his parliamentary life.
Memorandum initialled and dated ("P. 31/1-56") to an unnamed recipient, 4 pages, 8°, 31 January 1856.
Discussing the abysmal state of the Hospital of Fortifications of Malta: "a better hospital becomes urgently required", and its consequence on English troops in the area, he stresses: "We cannot reckon upon always having the Command of the sea in the Mediterranean. In times of peace our naval force in that sea may often be reduced very low. The French have Toulon and Algiers, both of them have naval stations and from these at the outbreak of a war they might be able to hand out a force superior to ours ... and if our garrison would not have defensive works in which it could maintain itself with ?relieved from England the island would be lost; and once lost would with difficulty be recovered". Mounted in common frame with portrait of print of Palmerston and a brief synopsis of his parliamentary life.