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Sydney New South Wales 8th Octr 1800
Sir,
His Excellency Governor King having acquainted me that he has represented to His Majesty's Ministers, that the present circumstances of this Colony require an augmentation of the Military Force, both in officers and men.
I have taken the liberty Sir, to remind you that when I was in England I had the honor to give in a plan for raising a Corps, by enlisting in this Country men of good Character whose times of Transportation were expired.
If it should be judged necessary to make the augmentation proposed, I trust my long Services in India and New South Wales and my particular knowledge of the Characters of the People, will have some weight in recommending me to you Sir, as an officer not undeserving or ineligible to be employed in raising such a number as might be thought necessary for forming another Corps.
If the Corps were to consist of four Companies one hundred men each I could undertake to raise two Companies