Description of Bronte, no date, based on an Italian source.

Bronte Papers, 1799-1804. Description of Bronte, no date, based on an Italian source.

ID:	CRK/17/48
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Phillipps-Croker
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	1 item
Parts:	Papers on Sardinia including information on the state of the troops, military and artillery. (Manuscript) Memo of Piero de Luca della Cotta di Bronte, no date, (in Italian). (Manuscript) (CRK/17/43) Piano delle due Regie Abbazie di Sta maria di Maniaci e di St Filippo di Fragala (no date, in Italian) listing the income of the Abbeys belonging to the Great Hospital at Palermo in the year 1579, including tithes on produce, totalling 1433 (nfi). (Manuscript) (CRK/17/44) Note concerning the income of the Abbey of Maniaci and Fragala, no date, (in Italian), totalling 50 (nfi). (Manuscript) (CRK/17/45) Memorial from a Brontese for Land addressed to 'Excellenza', no date, (in Italian). (Manuscript) (CRK/17/46) Grant of title to the estate in Bronte from The King to Nelson, no date, (in French), and request from The Miinister [Sir William Hamilton] to Lord Grenville, Foreign Secretary, for permission for Nelson to use the title. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/47) Description of Bronte, no date, based on an Italian source. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/48) Memoire (en abrege) of the Island of Sardinia, no date, signed Jo. Fr. (2 pages), Annotated 'Information from Mr Falcon on the interior of the Island of Sardinia'. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/49) Note on the Island of Sardinia, no date, no signature, (5 pages bound together), administration under the House of Savoy since 1720, produce and income, description of the Magdalena Islands, annotated by Nelson 'of Sardinia'. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/50) Major Hudson Lowe to Nelson, Cagliari, 5 Feb 1804, (Private), on conversations held since his arrival on raising money and preparing defences, but desire of the country to remain neutral. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/51) Hudson Lowe to Hugh Elliot (British Minister at Naples), Cagliari, 12 Feb 1804 (2 pages, copy), Sardinians view French attack from Corsica as unlikely, and desire to maintain neutrality, but willing to use the pretext of the Tunis fleet being out to prepare defence, sending copies of intelligence from Mr Magnon, the British Consul, on Corsica. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/52) Chevalier Tiesi to Hudson Lowe, 12 Feb 1804, (Secret, Copy, in French), enclosing, 3 papers on the state of troops and ordinance, the state of the Militia, artillery and munitions at Cagliari, Algher and Castel Sardo, with lists of the garrison troops (3000). (Manuscript) (CRK/17/53) State of the troops and ordnance on Sardinia. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/54) State of the military (Cavalry and Infantry) on Sardinia. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/55) State of the Artillery and munitions on Sardinia. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/56) Count Revel, Governor of Sasari, Sardinia, to Major Lowe, 14 March 1804, (extract, No2, in French), on the provision of support, on the arrest of Moreau over the Pichgeru conspiracy. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/57) Mr Magnon (Counsul General at Cagliari) to Major Lowe, 17 March 1804, (extract, No3, in Italian), on the lack of defensive preparations. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/58) Chevalier Tiesi to the Baron Desgenays, 17 March 1804, (extract, No4, in French), on the difficulty of an effective defence. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/59) Count Mocenigo (Russian Counsul) to Nelson, Corfu, 9/21 March 1804, (2 pages, bound, in French), on the defence of the Ionian Republic and the possibility of a French invasion of the Moreau, PS reporting the arrival of 4 Russian frigates at Zante. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/60) Mocenigo to Nelson, Corfu, 9/21 March 1804, (duplicate). (Manuscript) (CRK/17/61) Mocenigo to Nelson, Corfu, 23 April/5 May 1804 (2 pages, in French). on reinforcements to come from the Black Sea, on fortifications at St Maure at the north end of the canal. (Manuscript) (CRK/17/62) The Bey of Tripoli to Nelson, 2 August 1803, (in Italian, Leon Farfarra, interpreter). (Manuscript) (CRK/17/63)

Description of Bronte, no date, based on an Italian source.

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