(d. 1820), Queens' Camb. 1750; M.Temple 1750, called 1757; Speaker of the House of Commons 1768 - 1820.
1770 Milan (19 Aug. - 5 Sep.)
1774 Venice (7 Aug.), Florence (by 27 Aug.), Lucca, Pisa, Leghorn, Genoa, Turin (by 17 Sep.)
He was presumably the 'Hatsell' who in June 1770 accompanied Lord Palmerston, William Pars and Hans Sloane to the Swiss Alps. Palmerston visited Milan on 19 August, probably with Hatsell who set out for England with Sloane on 5 September.
On 7 August 1774 Hatsel arrived in Venice with 'Tomaso Weston', probably the antiquary Stephen Weston.1 They were in Florence on 27 August when Hatsel wrote to John Strange in Venice, regretting that he had not seen him there: 'the meeting of Parliament this year in November will not suffer me to advance to Rome and Naples'; he was to stay another week in Florence before proceding to Lucca, Pisa, Leghorn (where he would stay 'a day or two' with Sir John Dick), Genoa and Turin. He wrote again to Strange from Turin on 17 September, explaining that 'four months is the most I can ever spare out of England, & then from this you must deduct the Journey to the Frontiers of Italy & home again, which comprehends near half the time; I must therefore content myself with seeing Capital Objects, & those en passant. Even if I had more time to spare, I find, after a few weeks absence from England a sort of hankering after home that neither Climate, not Virtu can put an end to'.2
1. ASV is 760. 2. Eg.1969, f.16.