TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
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SIR BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD, 
^C. j-c. 
My dear Sir, 
In availing myself of the permission, so kindly 
given, to dedicate to you this Volume, it ivere an equal 
want of good feeling as of good taste, to repeat those 
praises which the general voice of the nation has long 
pronounced upon your public character ; but I may be 
allowed to state, with conscious pride, that in early life, 
when Cadets at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 
you were my guide, my leader, and my friend ; and it is a 
great pleasure to me to know that you also can look back 
with pleasure to our intimacy in those times, 
“ memor 
Actae non alio rege puertioe, 
“ Mutataeque simul togas.” 
I have the honour to be, 
With the profoundest respect, 
Your devoted and humble Servant, 
GEORGE W. MANBY. 
a 2 
Barracks at Yarmouthf 
July 19, 1822. 
