[STUART CHARLES]: (1779-1845) British Diplomat, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Brazil 1810-14, British Ambassador to France 1815-24, 1828-30 and British Ambassador to Russia 1841-44. A small collection of A.Ls.S., Ds.S. etc., sixteen pages (total), 4to and folio, various places (Lisbon, Portsmouth, London etc.), 1811-1812, all relating or sent to Charles Stuart, including an invoice for clothing shipped from Portsmouth to Lisbon for the use of the Portuguese Forces, comprising 93,982 ½ yards of Russia Duck, 30,000 pairs of Half Stockings, 60,000 Calico shirts and 20,700 Stocks and Clasps; an A.L.S. by Barker, Deputy Storekeeper General in London, 28th January 1812, detailing other supplies sent to Lisbon for the Royal Arsenal of the Army and Military Hospitals including thermometers, sheeting, paper and medicines; an A.L.S. by Lt. Col. H. W. Ellis of the 23rd Regiment Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd July 1811, regarding the Pay Master’s Portuguese servant, Manuel da Cunha, who has been arrested by the police, and explaining ‘I beg leave to represent to you, that agreeably to Lord Wellington’s orders, Mr. Bromley took this man as a servant to save an effective British Soldier of the Army’ and asking that Stuart exert his authority to have the servant released; a manuscript list of ten servants employed by the Commissariats Department, 28th June 1811; an A.L.S. by Warren Peacocke, 11th May 1811, on the subject of a complaint against British Soldiers at Belem and commenting ‘Your Excellency will….see the necessity of the interference of the Government for the shutting up the Wine houses in the vicinity of the Barracks at Belem to which only any irregularities committed can properly be attributed and which have so evidently been established for the sole purpose of drawing an illicit gain from the indiscretion of the British Soldiers’; a further L.S. by Warren Peacocke, 7th September 1812, regarding a report ‘of a fraudulent attempt of certain individuals to procure the admission into this City [Lisbon] of contraband property, under the pretence of its being for the use of the British Troops’ and remarking ‘I trust that the property will be confiscated, and the owners of it dealt with in a manner that shall deter others from attempting similar frauds on the Revenue…‘; an A.L.S. by an unidentified individual, Buenos Aires, 23rd September 1812, regarding the passage of the Spanish Minister to England, on his way to the Baltic etc. Some very light age wear, generally VG, 12 €125-190