72 THE LIFE OF 



" Such, Sire, is my paffion for martial affairs, 

 and fuch my vcneraiion for the PruHian arms, 

 that even in difgrace and bondage, while afflic- 

 tions are dealt to me with more than common 

 liberality, flill my whole foul is occupied by the 

 glorious fcenes I have feen, and ftill my diftrad- 

 ed imagination holds to my view your Majefly's 

 godlike troops. • ;. 



*' Your cavalry, the fineft in the world, I 

 have often gazed on with rapture, and the par- 

 ticular attention which I payed to their accou- 

 trements, occaiioned me to make fome remarks, 

 which I now beg leave, with the moil: refpedlful 

 fubmiflion, to lay before your Majefly, along 

 with an accoutrement for light-horfe, an in- 

 vention of my own, and which I had prepared 

 to lay in perfon at your Majefty's feet, when I 

 was prevented by the difgrace and deftrudlion, 

 into which I was plunged, by unbounded extra- 

 vagance, and ungoverncd paflions. Unable to 

 adorn my tale, I will without further apology, 

 proceed in the plain language ofafoldier, to 

 point out the difadvantages which your Majef- 

 ty's, and indeed all the cavalry on the Conti- 

 nent of Europe, labour under by the prefent 

 mode of faddling. 



" It is an eftablifhed cuflom in your Maje- 

 fly's cavalry to place the faddle on the fhoul- 



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