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I shall now leave it to the candour of 

 every experienced officer to judge how 

 much siipcrio?'^^ the corps I have proposed 

 must be, on active service, to any corpSy xvhich 

 has as yet been raised. Certainly, hitherto, 

 no such corps has ever been produced, nor even 

 thought of. 



I shall now make one observation, on 

 which I respectfully intreat every officer 

 candidly and impartially to reflect. Those 

 officers who have served in the American 

 war, who have seen the infinite service our 

 light troops performed in that country, the 

 features of which were so peculiarly adap- 

 ted to light troops, are wild after light 

 troops, and perhaps do not pay that respect 

 to des gros battalions which I do, and may 

 wish for too great an increase of light 

 troops in our army. There they certainly 

 lie under an error; but those officers who 



which is so very imperfect an arm (imperfect I mean 

 from its bad construction), as not to put it in the 

 power of the best-trained light-infantry man or sharp- 

 shooter to fire with the smallest hopes of hitting the 

 man he aims at, at a greater distance than 80 or 100 

 yards. 



