Autograph Letter Signed "L. P. D'Orleans", to Col. Moore, IN ENGLISH.

Louis Philippe I, formerly Duc D'Orleans. Two pages, 8vo, minor defects but good condition, saying: "My dear Col: Moore, I have barely time to inform you that . . . I am hurried off to England. . . . Should you arrive at Gibraltar wit a proper permission to attend me, I can only intreat of you to wait there either for me or for some news from me, were I prevented from returning to my dear cousin to whom I am much attached. He was justly very desirous of having an english [sic] officer that might put him / au fait of english manners customs &c. & of what he ought to do & not to do whilst in company with them, I told him I knew of no one whom he could more properly place hius trust into but you. & I had no doubtyou would be happy to supply me in that absence, if Sir J. Stuart enabled you to come to Gibraltar. I have no time to inform you of what passed, they will do it. In the meanwhile, my dear Col: Moore, / Yours sincerely, / L.P. D'Orleans". Note: Sir John Stuart was commander of the land forces in the Mediterranean, with the local rank of lieutenant-general. The "Thunderer was described in "A Dictionary of British Ships and Seamen" (1980) as "Nelson's wooden "Thunderer" of 74 guns . . . built on the Thames (1783)", and was commanded at Trafalgar by Lieutenant RN Stockham (1805).