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That your Memorialist and his said
Brother have already expanded upwards of
£6000 in the prosecution of his said inventions,
the whole of which Expenditure, has either been
incurred with a view in the first instance
to the Employment of Convicts under the said
Treaty, or else transferred to that purpose from
its original destination.
That your Memorialist's said Brother
having now, for upwards of 3 years, in
compliance with the said solicitations, absented
himself from the Service of the said Empress,
hath at length lost the Provision made for
him in that service, being the Command, in
quality of Colonel, of a Regiment of 2200 Men
composed of 2 Battalions, the command of
either of which would have been a situation
of more advantage, as well in the point of pecuniary
enrolment as of authority, than the Command
of a Regiment in his Majesty's Service.
That your Memorialist and his said
Brother, having by a concurrence of diligence
and good fortune, collected and formed a
body of Workmen in different branches, such
as, if once dispersed, he could not for a long
time, if even, hope fully to replace, is obliged
and will, during the pendency of the
Identifier: | JB/118/045/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
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