Sir, I take the liberty of submitting to your serious attention the plan of national defence lately suggested by government, compared with a different plan now approved, though subject to revision, by a company of loyal Englishmen, of which I have the honour to be one. ...
Volunteer.
[London,
1782]
Signed on the first page: A volunteer.
The "plan of national defence" is the 'Heads of a plan for raising corps in several principal towns in Great Britain, inclosed in a letter from the Earl of Shelburne to the chief magistrates of several cities and towns' and the "different plan now approved" is the 'Sketch of a plan for raising a constitutional force in the towns, cities, and counties of Great Britain; being an answer, article by article, to the plan annexed', which sketch is signed: A company of loyal English gentlemen.
Title from text which is at head dated: London, May 14, 1782.
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