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She offers earth rights that
The Volunteers should thus have been deprived
of these arms, and this
Governor
trusts that
some
means may
be found
for supplying The Corps with suitable weapons until they shall have
provided themselves with rifles from this country
I am to add that
the Duke
is fully
of Newcastle
aware
that arms
lent from the Board
Stores to Colonial Rifle
Corps
are
liable to
be recalled on
any but, except
in the case of
such
emergency, His Grace
strongly deprecates Proceedings of this kind which are calculated to arouse feelings of discontent
and resentment when it is least desirable that such feelings should prevail.
I have...