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CHAPTER VI. 

 Foltmteertng project, antr JKfeston to Portugal. 



NARRATIVE OF PROJECTS AS TO VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA RE- 

 CEPTION OF THEM BY GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE OF THE EFFI- 

 CIENCY OF SUCH A FORCE IN COMPARISON WITH REGULAR 

 TROOPS NOTICES OF THE YOUNGER PITT LADY HESTER STAN- 

 HOPE LORD LIVERPOOL LORD CASTLEREAGH FOX DESIGNS 



OF NAPOLEON ON THE SPANISH PENINSULA CONDITION OF 



PORTUGAL SPECIAL MISSION TO PORTUGAL MY SHARE IN IT 



LORD ST VINCENT LORD ROSSLYN GENERAL SIMCOE THE 



BRITISH FLEET IN THE TAGUS PROJECT FOR THE SEIZURE OF 

 THE ROYAL FAMILY, AND THE REMOVAL OF THEM TO THE 

 BRAZILS ANECDOTES OF LORD ST VINCENT DEATH OF FOX 

 MINISTERIAL RUMOURS CONCLUSION OF THE MISSION. 



THE following is a brief and exact statement of certain 

 proceedings which took place last August in Edin- 

 burgh, relating to my efforts in attempting to organise 

 a volunteer corps. The facts can be proved by the 

 original papers and correspondence which I sent to 

 Wilberforce, in Old Palace Yard, on the 17th July 

 1804. 



A large body of gentlemen, between the ages of 20 

 and 35, who from particular circumstances happened 

 not to be attached to any volunteer corps, considering 



