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musket for light troops than the common 

 Tower musket in use. 



This Plan has been highly approved by 

 several distinguished officers, and particu- 

 larly by one general officer, to whose dis- 

 tinguished services the country is much 

 indebted. Although he has given me 

 leave, in the most public manner, to use 

 his name, yet from delicacy, respect, and 

 friendship, I refrain from taking so great a 

 liberty ; trusting that those who may read 

 the Plan, will believe my assertion. When 

 I asked him his opinion of the Plan, he 

 replied, that a corps so disciplined, so trained, 

 so manxuvred, and so armed, must have a 

 very superior advantage over any other 

 corps, not exceeding it in numbers. 



Any gentleman curious in arms, by calling on 

 Messrs. Tatham and Egg, Gunmakers, near the Admi- 

 ralty, may see a double-barrelled rifle pistol, making for 

 Colonel Hanger, on a perfectly jiezo construction. No 

 pistol, hitherto, has been made with a lock communi- 

 cating with the under barrel, to operate with such 

 certain effect. 



