London Calling List of Government Officials and Foreign Ministers, 15 June 1794–March 1795

London Calling List of Government Officials and Foreign Ministers

[London, 15 June 1794–March 1795]

1. Lord Spencer— St. James’s Place1

2. Baron de Kutzleben— 6 Jermyn St.2 x

3. Duke of Portland— Piccadilly x

4. Lord Grenville— Dover Street x

5. Mr. Windham— Hill Street— x

6. Chev[alie]r. d’Almeida— 72 South Audley St. x

7. Lord Cornwallis— Lower Grosvenor St.3 x

8. Mr. Bukaty— 8 Upper Berkley St. Edgware Road

9. Mr. Pinckney— Cumberland place—

10. Chev[alie]r d’Engestrom— 3 do. x

11. Comte de Bruhl— 20 do. x

12. Lord Chatham— do. x

13. Lord Hawksbury— Hertford Street— x

14. Baron Jacobi Klost— 3 Glo’[uce]ster place— x

^Comte de Lavezzari— 5 Somerset St. (Port[ma]n. Sq— x^

15. Mr. Dundas— Somerset place—

16. Marq. del Campo— Manchester House x

17. Comte de Starhemberg— 8 Cavendish Sq. x

18. Comte de Wedel Jarlsburg 4 Wimpole St. x

19. Comte de Haslang— 46 Harley St. x

20. Comte Woronzow— 36 do. x

21. Marq. Circello— 7 Mansfield St., Port[lan]d. Place x

22. Marq. Spinola— 2 Dutchess St. do. x

23. Baron de Nagell 14 Portland Place—

24. Lord Mansfield— Portland Place— x

25. Lord Chancellor— Bedford Square— x

26. Comte de St. Martin de Frons, Lincoln’s inn fields

27. Turkish Ambassador, 4 Robt. St. Adelphi—

AD, NNC (EJ: 09206). An “x” next to a name may indicate a completed visit.

1. The following were members of Pitt’s cabinet: George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834), Lord Privy Seal; William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; William Grenville; William Windham (1750–1810); John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (1756–1835), older brother of William Pitt, the Younger, cousin (via his mother) of William Grenville, First Lord of the Admiralty (1788–94); Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1727–1808), known as Baron Hawkesbury,

William Pitt the Younger, “Ministerial Eloquence,” by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey, hand-colored etching, published 6 January 1795. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

President of the Board of Trade; Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811), Home Secretary (see Dundas to , 9 Sept. 1794, below); David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont and 2nd Earl of Mansfield, diplomat and politician who opposed Pitt during the 1780s but joined with him at outbreak of the French war; and Lord Loughborough, Lord Chancellor. ODNBO. For changes in the cabinet in 1794, see to , 21 July 1794, below.

2. The following were members of the foreign diplomatic corps: Christian Moritz, Baron de Kutzleben (1749–98), envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel; João d’Almeida de Mello e Castro (1756–1814), Portugal’s minister to Great Britain, 1792–1801; Franciszek Bukaty (1747–97), Polish charge d’affaires and later envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary; Count Lars von Engestrom (1751–1826), Swedish envoy, 1793–95; Aloys Friedrich, Graf von Bruhl (1739–89), privy councilor and envoy of the Elector of Savoy; Baron de Jacobi Klost, envoy and minister plenipotentiary from the King of Prussia; Comte de Lavezzari, resident from the Republic of Venice; Bernardo del Campo (Bernardo del Campo y Perez de la Serna), Spanish ambassador. The English-speaking Del Campo had been Floridablanca’s secretary when JJ was in Spain (JJSP description begins Elizabeth M. Nuxoll et al., eds., The Selected Papers of John Jay (6 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2010–) description ends , 2: 803); Ludwig von Starhemberg; Count Frederik Christian Wedel-Jarlsberg (1757–1831), minister extraordinary from the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway; Count de Haslang, envoy extraordinary from Bavaria and the Elector Palatine; Count Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov (Woronzow) (1744–1832), Russian ambassador to Great Britain, 1785–1800, and to the United Kingdom, 1801–6; Marquis de Circello, envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; Marchese Cristoforo Vincenzo de Spinola, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the Republic of Genoa; Anne Willem Carel, Baron van Nagell van Ampsen (1756–1851), ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary from the States-General (Netherlands); Count de St. Martin de Front, envoy extraordinary from the King of Sardinia; and Yusuf Agah Efendi (1744–1824) first Turkish ambassador to Great Britain. Robert Beatson, A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland (London, 1806), 181.

3. Charles Cornwallis, first Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805), British general in the American Revolution, and Governor General of India, 1786–94. He returned to Great Britain in 1794, becoming Master-General of the Ordnance. ODNBO.

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Date: June 1794 – March 1795

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Cite as: “London Calling List of Government Officials and Foreign Ministers, 15 June 1794–March 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-06-02-0011. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 6, 1794–1798, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. 23–25.]