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here without any expense to Government, if I might be considered worthy the honor of being promoted to the Command of it, and be endulged with the disposal of the Commissions of one Company.
I would pledge myself that the men I should enlist were able and active soldiers, and such as might be depended on for good behaviour in any service in which it might be His Majesty's pleasure to employ them in.
The very great saving of raising men in this Country you Sir will instantly notice, as the simple expense of conveying Two Hundred Soldiers from England, would be at least Five Thousand Pounds to which if they were to be recruited at home, would be to be added their Bounty and a Variety of other contingences; and the men so raised I am confident could not be more depended on than those I should procure here.
I beg to assure Sir that I am actuated by a current desire to promote the good of His Majesty's Service, as much as with a view to my own individual advantage and this