[427] Parl. History, 12th April 1771.
[428] Miscellaneous Orders, 7th August 1759.
[429] Gazette, 18th August 1759.
[430] Conway complained much of the drafts from the independent companies sent to Germany, the men being weakly, young, and undersized (Secretary's Common Letter Book, 2nd June 1761; and see Correspondence of George III. with Lord North, vol. i. p. 265). The King ascribes the system to Charles Townsend, but it was begun before he became Secretary-at-War.
[431] Stair to Carteret, Nov. 3 14 , Dec. 4 15 1742, Jan. 7 18 1743; Carteret to Stair, Nov. 12 23 1742; Fawkenar to Newcastle, July 9 20 1745; Miscellaneous Orders, 28th June 1744; Secretary's Common Letter Book, 5th Sept. 1745.
[432] Thus other Light Dragoons besides the Fifteenth really partook in the glory of Emsdorff; one of the officers killed being, though formerly of the Fifteenth, an officer of the Seventeenth, who probably took a draft of his new regiment with him.
[433] Read's Weekly Journal, 9th March 1754; Secretary's Common Letter Book, 18th Jan. 1748, 29th Jan. 1757.
[434] Secretary's Common Letter Book, 26th March 1743, 12th June, 20th August, 2nd Sept. 1755.
[435] See Governor Crump's pathetic appeal to Lord Barrington, 1759. W. O., Orig. Corres., Guadeloupe (Record Office).
[436] Circular to Governors of colonies, 13th March 1756.