Stuart, Charles (later Baron Stuart de Rothesay).

mostly comprising letters to him by diplomats, political figures, merchants, and friends, but also including some retained drafts and related documents, about 200 items in total, in English and French, principal correspondents including Robert Adair (4, from Vienna, on diplomatic relations, 1806), Lord Auckland (3), Victor Barzoni (4, from Malta 1804-1805),  Benjamin Bathurst (6 ), Comte de Blacas, John Booker (2, from Kronstadt), General Boudberg, Charles R. Broughton (3, 1806), Marquess of Douglas (4), Prince Czartoryski, Vice Admiral JR Dacres (from Jamaica), B.G.I. Diessbach de Carrouge (5, on Swiss affairs, one mentioning Lucien Bonaparte), Jean Dobler (3, from Trieste, 1802), William Eden (2), Granville Leveson-Gower (2), J. Hadden, William Hargood, D. Harley, Lord Hawkesbury (2), John Heath (Genoa), Henry Holland (2, from Gothenburg, 1807), James Hood (1805), Horben (3, from Regensburg, 1801-1802) Hudelist (4, from Vienna, on military movements), Charles Kelsall (Moscow, 1807), Kinsky Dietrichstein, Comte de la Chastre, Marquis de La Maisonfort, J. Leard (8, from Fiume, 1803), Philippe Masseria (2 long letters and also his “Report of the Mission .... to the 1st Consul of the French Republic”, describing Paris, the situation in Egypt, and other subjects), Maximilian Merveldt (8, noting the declaration of war between France and Prussia and fighting in Calabria), JJ Morier (Constantinople, 1801), Granville Penn, Henry Pierrepont (2), John Ramsay, Stephen Rolleston (5), Duc de Serracapriola (3), R. Shepherd (6), Spencer Smith, Alexander Straton (4, Turkey 1801 to 1804), John Sullivan, Earl of Tipaldo, Tooke (8, Constantinople, 1804), Comte Michel Woronzoff, and Sir John Borlase Warren, about 300 pages, mostly 1801-1807

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Charles Stuart had travelled extensively, especially in northern Europe, before he received his first diplomatic appointment as Secretary of Legation to Vienna in May 1801. He remained in the Austrian capital during the Peace of Amiens. After the resumption of hostilities Stuart was appointed secretary to the new Ambassador to Russia, Lord Granville, in October 1804. It was an eventful appointment that required considerable diplomatic adroitness to keep up with ever-shifting alliances and the changing position of Tsar Alexander, and during which Stuart narrowly evaded capture by the French during the Austerlitz campaign. The embassy finally ended with the meeting of the Tsar and Napoleon in June 1807, and Russia’s subsequent declaration of War on Britain.