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Your Lordship will have the goodness to con- sider it as flowing from a heart fervently attached to the public service, and your favorable acceptance of it may hereafter induce me to lay before Your Lordship a plan, which, in the course of some military essays occurred to me for the establishment of a marine corps, whose service, in peace and war, might possibly give satisfaction to Prince and people; certainly would be more useful than the marines now raising, who, I humbly apprehend, cannot in their present form be good soldiers, nor in any form good seamen, whatever to the contrary may be expected.

Note ~by Sir David William Smith.

These papers of General Simcoes were nrinted in 1799, by Trewmans, Exeter.

Additional Note.

Sir Davids copy is bound in his volume containing the Proceedings of the House of Assembly, U.