Letter from the Duke of Clarence to Samuel Hawker, written at Bushy House

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your statement and I can easily conceive that the enormous sum of £700,000 in the last year may have been improperly expended: what excuse can be made for the Barracks being without an hospital and Riding School when they were rebuilt after having been burnt down by the York Hussars: the state of the apartments of the Officers is equally scandalous. I cannot help lamenting the immense profusion in the expenditure of the army and really to so little purpose. Mrs Jordan unites with me in every sincere wish for the children are all