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That your Memorialist and his said Brother have already expanded upwards of £ 1000 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 memorialists said Brother having now, for upwards of 3 years, in compliance with the said solicitations, absented himself from the Service of the said Emprefs ?, hath at length lost the Provision made for him in that service, being the command, in the quality of Colonel, of a Regiment of 2200 others composed of 2 Battalions, the command of either of which would have been a situation of more advantage, as well in the point of pecuriary? 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
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see note to letter 988, vol. 5 |
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