160 THE SQUIRE AND HIS YOLUIS'TEERS. 



The following reply appeared in the same paper 

 the succeeding week : — 



" Major Forester, seeing an account in the 

 Shrewsbury papers relative to the business which 

 occurred at Willey upon ISTew Year's Day last, 

 between him and his late corps of Wenlock Yolun- 

 teers, presumes to trouble the public eye with his 

 answer thereto, thinking it an unbounded duty of 

 gratitude and respect owing to his late corps, to 

 return them (as their late commander) his most 

 explicit public thanks, as well as his most grateful 

 and most sincere acknowledgments, for the high 

 honour latety conferred upon him, by their kind 

 present of a silver bowl, value one hundred guineas. 

 Major Forester's unwearied attention, as well as his 

 liberality to his late corps, were ever looked upon by 

 him as a part of his duty, in order to make some 

 compensation to a body of distinguished respectable 

 yeomanry, who had so much the interest and welfare 

 of him and their country at heart, that he plainly 

 perceived himself, and so must every other inteUi- 

 gent spectator on the ground at the time of exercise, 

 that they only waited impatiently for the word to 

 put the order into execution directly ; but with such 



