Nagel

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20.9.1789 Nagel at Holcroft's and 27.9.1789 there. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1789, and in 1794 version

Oracle and Bell's New World 30.9.89, and St James Chronicle 1.10.89 "Friday evening last between 5 and 6 o'clock Captain Nagel was stopped about two miles and a half from Bushy Park by two highwaymen who robbed him of a ten pound bank note and his purse containing three guineas. The Captain was on a visit to Mr Burke at Beaconsfield" Friday was the 25th so maybe Nagel stayed at Holcroft's on his way to and from Burke. It fits with a pattern of foreign officers visiting Holcroft, but Burke's mother was Mary Nagle of an Irish Catholic family, and his cousin Edmund Nagle DNB 1757-1830 had been looked after by Burke, was said to be his favourite and was at this time a Captain in the Royal Navy, so it looks very likely that he was the robbed Captain Nagel, in which case I know no particular reason why he should have stayed with Holcroft, who doesn't appear in the index to Burke's correspondence. There was a Dutch Captain Nagel who died in battle at Werwick 11.7.94 (Zie Borscha: Nedel. Held de Land D III b 167). There was also a Dutch ambassador to London called Baron Nagael (Boyle's 1792, 14 Portland Pl). Boyle's 1792 also listed a Nagle Esq 32 Lambs Conduit St, who may have been Edmund's brother or uncle Garrett Nagle. This Nagel at Holcroft's appeared in Godwin's 1796 list, as did the Russian officer Lisakovitz whom Godwin met just once at Holcroft's. National Archives PRO30/8/163 letter to William Pitt from Nagel, M (not seen)