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Letter from William Pitt The Younger, October 1790. Letter from William Pitt while Prime Minister, probably addressed to Francis Godolphin Osborne, Duke of Leeds, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the negotiations with the leaders of the French National Assembly secretly carried on between Hugh Elliot and the Marquis de Mirabeau. From the second series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V. (London, 1899).