ir.
.
as were
put up last year.
350
If thoughing is to be thoroughly fortiffed def and military
and made a
strong naval
centre as it ought to be the whole 1500
now proposed to be raised, aught to lee permanently embodied, and properly affects.
organned and officered in ques
to men whare profession
It would not
lw
More
thaw
trained
is war.
sufficient
in
was.
for the peace duties to bee performed
Connection with the forts, batteries, and outlying ports. It would be msufficient in time of wa
Best paration for ever time
it angles to be supplemented by a much larger local churièse Militia. to lee trained in the first instance and afterwards called out periodically.
te a
The permanent force should be so organised, that each of its companies formed the skeleton
a
battation to which at
the periods for training, or in was time the non permanent portion of the force might
aggregated.
lu
If thongkong is to remain as to its forts and garrison pretty much as it has been
and 1500 men
Considered the
J.
au
anychary force is to be
was establishment then
I should make it a Militia and on
fallenning grounds.
the
The present Military Force in thoughing is dufficient for all ordinary duties in temno
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of