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Execution of a highway robber.- Phillipps (Samuel March, legal writer and civil servant, permanent under secretary for home-affairs, 1780-1862) Letter signed by Phillipps on behalf of Robert Peel Home Secretary to Under Sheriff Richardson at the Old Bailey, 1p., sm. 4to, Whitehall, 20th January 1829, "Mr Secretary Peel having had under Consideration, the Petition which you forwarded of James Wheeler a Convict under Sentence of Death in the Gaol of Newgate; I am directed to acquaint you that Mr. Peel regrets that he does not perceive any Circumstance stated that would justify him consistently with his Public Duty, in advising His Majesty to Grant the Prisoner any extension of the Royal Mercy", in an album of letters & cut signatures, together 46 letters and 93 cut signatures, all but 1 laid down or tipped-in, in a half calf album, rubbed, v.s., v.d. [19th century]. ⁂ Letters, including: Sir Robert Peel second Baronet (1788-1850), prime minister; Edward Law, first Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871), politician and governor-general of India; Sir Benjamin Hawes (1797-1862), politician; Lord William Bentinck (1774-1839), army officer, diplomatist, and governor-general of India; Lewis Pocock (1808-82), art patron; Edward Berkeley Portman, first Viscount Portman (1799-1888), politician; Robert Saunders Dundas, second Viscount Melville (1771-1851), politician; Charles Sackville-Germain, fifth Duke of Dorset (1767-1843), courtier and politician; Sir George Yonge, fifth baronet (1732-1812), politician and colonial governor; Sir Robert Gardiner (1781-1864), army officer and writer; John Backhouse (1784-1845), civil servant; John Spencer third Earl Spencer (1782-1845), statesman; John Townshend, second Viscount Sydney of St Leonards (1764-1831); cut signatures, including: Charles Cornwallis second Marquess Cornwallis (1774-1823), landowner; John Montagu, fifth Earl of Sandwich (1744-1814), politician and landowner; Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, second Earl of Minto (1782-1859), diplomatist and politician; Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln and second Duke of Newcastle under Lyme (1720-94), politician; Henry Addington, first Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), prime minister; address panel made out to Lord Nelson, Trafalgar, near Salisbury etc.