“Monte Video, 30th July 1807.
“Sir,
“I do myself the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your letter dated the 9th of May last, and now transmit a sketch of the regimental colours of the first battalion of the Thirty-sixth regiment, as represented in the accompanying paper, marked D and E.; at present there are no camp colours with the 36th, they having been destroyed by fire when the regimental store was burned at Battle barracks, a few days before the regiment embarked for foreign service.
“I likewise do myself the honour of sending a sketch from the regimental seal, and beg to be informed by you if we have not a right to the word ‘Firm’ embroidered on the colours as represented in that sketch. How long the seal has been in the regiment I cannot pretend to say, only it is the same seal that has been made use of since I came into the Thirty-sixth, which will be thirty-four years the month after next. Should there be any office where the devices of different regiments are recorded, I should imagine it would be a matter easily ascertained.
“I have, &c.
(Signed) “Robert Burne,
“Lieut.-Colonel, Commanding 1st Battalion,
“36th Regiment.”
George Nayler, Esq., York Herald,
&c. &c. &c.
“Treasury Chambers,
“24th April 1809.
“Dear Sir,
“I am desired by my brother of the Thirty-sixth regiment to make application to you for a drawing (furnished you some time past by Colonel Burne) of a regimental seal, for the purpose of registering the bearings on the colours, and having the word ‘Firm’ inserted.