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SIDMOUTH VISCOUNT: (1757-1844) British Prime Minister 1801-04. A.L.S., Henry Addington, three pages, 4to, Eastbourne, 4th September 1802, to [Prince William Frederick] ‘Sir’. Addington thanks his Royal Highness for their letters from Copenhagen and Helsingfors (i.e. Helsinki) and remarks ‘A doubt of the propriety of writing to your Royal Highness, & likewise concerning the place, to which the letter should be address’d has occasion’d my silence, for which the wish, which your Royal Highness has condescended to express from Helsingfors, convinces me that many apologies are due. I have to rely for their acceptance on that goodness, of which I have received many most gratifying proofs’, further continuing ‘The progress of your Royal Highness’s tour will, I trust, continue to be as satisfactory, in all respects, as it had been to the period of your last communication. Your visit to St. Petersburgh is a subject of peculiar interest; and I look forward to the account of it…..with more than common anxiety. The harvest is rapidly approaching to a conclusion, and it is likely to be one of the most productive ever known. Our prospect is indeed encouraging in all respects: much however depends upon the disposition and conduct of the Court of St. Petersburgh, whose true interests cannot be separated from those of Great Britain’. Docketed to the integral leaf, in part, ‘I had written to him [Addington] from the north in respecting the importance of a…..firm friendship between Gt. Britain and Russia’. A letter of good association. VG Prince William Frederick (1776-1834) Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, great-grandson of King George II and nephew and son-in-law of King George III.