“As your paper has usually the earliest and most
correct intelligence from North America, I trouble you with this note, in order
to ascertain whether you have received any information respecting the defeat of
General Proctor, mentioned in
to-day’s ‘Chronicle.’ If you have, I should be much obliged to you to let
me know the particulars.
“I enclose the substance of a despatch, which will
appear in the ‘Gazette’ of
to-night.”
Henry Goulburn (1784-1856)
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he held a variety of government offices and was
Tory MP for Horsham (1808-12), St. Germans (1812-18), West Looe ((1818-26), Armaugh
(1826-31), and Cambridge University (1831-56).
Morning Chronicle. (1769-1862). James Perry was proprietor of this London daily newspaper from 1789-1821; among its many
notable poetical contributors were Coleridge, Southey, Lamb, Rogers, and Campbell.
