1771, General Henry Luttrell, RARE, regimental account, Cornwallis, Percy, Howe

This document dated 1771, is a large folio accounting of the British forces in Ireland in the year 1771…..signed by Henry Lawes Luttrell as Adjutant to Ireland. A fantastic listing of officers and their stations, prior to most of them coming to fight in the American Revolutionary War….among the hundreds of entries are those for Earl Percy, Edward Cornwallis, William Howe, Abercromby and several others. Two details show James Grant as Governor of the forces in East Florida (Fort St, Augustine) and Captain William Sherriff as Quartermaster General in America.
Each page is 15×21 inches, five pages, folds, minor splits, a fantastic accounting in overall very good condition.
General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier. He was the son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton and brother-in-law of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn. He had command in Ireland during the 1798 rebellion, and was renowned for a violent counter-insurgency untrammelled by legal considerations.
The government rewarded Luttrell by appointing him Adjutant General for Ireland in 1770. He continued to sit in the Commons, where he described the Whigs in their opposition to the conduct of the American War, as “the abetters of treason and rebellion combined purposely for the ruin of their country.”
In 1788, Luttrell was publicly accused in Dublin of the rape of a 12 year-old girl. Having been paid to deliver a message, Mary Neal claimed she was bundled into a brothel and there assaulted throughout the night by Luttrell. The keeper of the house, Maria Llewellyn, was charged in a case marked by accusations of witness tampering, the death in prison of Mary’s mother and new-born baby sister and by the insinuation that Mary was already working as a prostitute. The affair became a cause célèbre with the public intervention of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (later United Irishman). To clear Mary’s name he brought her to Dublin Castle to see the Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Westmorland. Westmorland, unmoved, pardoned Llewellyn and set her at liberty.
Luttrell was never asked to answer for raping Mary Neal. He re-entered the Westminster Parliament as Member for Plympton Erle in 1790. Then in 1796 he was made Commander-in-Chief, Ireland,and in 1798 he led the British suppression of the United Irishmen Rebellion.His command had the unusual distinction of being upbraided by his successor as Commander in Chief, Sir Ralph Abercromby for an army “in a state of licentiousness, which must render it formidable to every one but the enemy”.
James Grant, Laird of Ballindalloch (1720–1806) was a British Army officer who served as a major general during the American War of Independence. He served as Governor of East Florida from 1763 to 1771, and between 1773 and 1802 he had seats in the House of Commons.
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