MM, Portugal Street, to Markham, HMS Centaur, Minorca, No 28, on dining with Lady Macclesfield learned that Lord Spencer had heard of the French being driven back, and massacred at Naples, and the surrender of Malta, Saturday 16th: letter from Colchester on taking this house, on news that Spanish would attack Minorca

15 March [1799] MM, Portugal Street, to Markham, HMS Centaur, Minorca, No 28, on dining with Lady Macclesfield learned that Lord Spencer had heard of the French being driven back, and massacred at Naples, and the surrender of Malta, Saturday 16th: letter from Colchester on taking this house, on news that Spanish would attack Minorca

Record Details

Item reference: MRK/107/3/30
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1799
Creator: Markham, Maria
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London