[FRENCH CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT AND SYRIA]: ADDINGTON JOHN HILEY: (1759-1818) British Politician, younger brother of ...

[FRENCH CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT AND SYRIA]: ADDINGTON JOHN HILEY: (1759-1818) British Politician, younger brother of Prime Minister Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth. L.S., J. H. Addington, one page, folio, Treasury Chambers, 13th May 1801, to the Paymaster of the Forces ('Sir & My Lord'; Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie). Addington writes, in full, 'Having laid before the Lords Commsrs. of His Majesty's Treasury a Letter from Mr. Commissary Motz dated Marmorice Bay the 14th Febry. last enclosing a Bill for £20,754.19.2/2 drawn by Mr. Baynes, the Deputy Paymaster General to the Army in the Mediterranean, on you, on account of the Ordinary Service of the Forces, and requesting that the same may be duly credited on his account. I have received their Lordships Commands to transmit the said Papers to you for your information'. With blank integral leaf (minor traces of former mounting to the left edge of the verso). About VG John Hiley Addington served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1800-01 and 1802-03 during which time his elder brother was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1801-04). Marmorice Bay (today known as Marmaris) is a port city on the shoreline of the Turkish riviera. In 1801 a British force of 120 ships under Admiral Keith and 14,000 troops under General Abercromby anchored in the bay for eight weeks, training and resupplying for their mission to end Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt and Syria.