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A plan has lately been formed for efrabllrii- 

 ing a military hofpital, likev/ife. in this neigh- 

 bourhood, for the accommodation of our fick 

 atid wounded foldiers. You will join me, I 

 have no doubt, in wiihing that it may be at- 

 tended with every poffible fuccefs, and that 

 it may prove equally ufeful to our army, as 

 the Haflar to the navy. The building is al- 

 ready commenced, at Gofport, and it is ex- 

 peded to be in readinefs for the reception of 

 patients next year, or, at the latePc, the year 

 following. V 



At the Haflar, a high degree of order and 

 arrangement prevails, and all the regulations 

 of the eftabliflim.ent are duly obferved. The 

 hofpital is clean, well ventilated, and well 

 conduded ; and the benefit, intended, is re- 

 gularly and correftly adminiftered. 



But great and liberal as is the relief 

 held out, to the fick, by this fplendid infti- 

 tution, we are not to contemplate it in the 

 limited view of a mere afylum for thofe 

 who are, immediately, fuffering. Its object is 



