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12 Apr. 1802
Dispensing power
Among military heroes there are some whose Generals, some have distinguished themselves
generalship has distinguished itself by the avoidance
of false steps: others by the skill displayed in the
repairing the mischief done by them. When this
epistle dissertation reached Mr Long, he found the good matter
of the theory done on my spoilt and worse than made
worse than ineffectual by the high number given, in
the particular application made of it to practice⊞ ⊞ from which observation, came the marks of dissatisfaction that have been already entered† †§. [F.] :
But, from the increase thus given to the magnitude of the establishment,
and consequently to the expence of it, he extracted
a reason for annihilating it a contrivance was extracted for reducing it to nothing: and that was, as
your Lordship has seen, the fathering it upon me.‡ ‡ §. [ ] It
was thus that the were oversight of Mr. King was
repaired by the intrepidity of Mr Long, instructed prompted
by the genius of Mr Kin Rose.
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