416 APPENDIX I. 



Sir Ghiy Carleton wrote to Colonel Thompson : 



'New York, October 10, 1783. 



1 SIR, I have received your letter of July 6, with the 

 several enclosures therein mentioned, and you may be 

 assured that the resolution of Parliament to give the 

 British- American officers half-pay (with which also I find 

 they will all have permanent rank in America) affords me 

 a very sincere satisfaction. Your zeal and assiduity on this 

 occasion appear to have been such as your friends might 

 have expected, and I am sensible of your attention to me 

 in writing so fully on the subject. 



1 The American officers have, in my opinion, so fair a claim 

 to half-pay that I hope the grant will finally be made for 

 the full establishment of their several regiments without the 

 least exception.' 



