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that period, be sent into the Horse Guards. 

 Each officer whose first report was there 

 approved, should be invited to send in a second, 

 being allowed only seven days for composing 

 this. An officer whose second report was ap- 

 proved should be invited to send in a third, 

 five days only being allowed for this purpose. 

 These reports should refer exclusively to defend- 

 ing the route from three separate spots on our 

 coasts, on which the debarkation of an enemy 

 was supposed to have taken place. The officers 

 whose reports were approved should now be 

 each invited to make one on the defence of 

 London in the supposed event of an enemy 

 succeeding in reaching that place. 



Reports should be invited from the officers 

 quartered in Ireland, on a supposed invasion of 

 that country on the spots naval men have judged 

 best calculated for a successful descent. This 

 duty should be executed on the same plan as 

 has been here sketched out for England. 



After this, the Commander-in-Chief might 

 send those officers to Ireland whose reports in 

 England had been approved, inviting them to 

 send similar reports on a supposed invasion of 

 the former country. Then the officers quar- 



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