TO 
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS FIELD-MARSHAL 
THE DUKE OF YORK, 
ETC . ETC . 
May it please your Royal Highness , 
It is to the Commander in Chief of His 
Majesty’s forces that every soldier naturally looks for protec- 
tion and patronage, when he has turned his attention towards 
any object tending to promote the prosperity of his country. 
To your Royal Highness, however, any individual of 
the British armies addresses himself with peculiar confidence, 
since their welfare and encouragement have appeared the 
principal objects of your life, ever since the attainment of 
your present exalted situation. When I say that a steady 
discipline and a spirit of loyalty have been uniformly con- 
spicuous in the army ; that the condition of the soldier 
has in every respect been improved, and that every com- 
fort of which his situation is susceptible is now attained : 
a 
