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Bushy House. Thursday Afternoon Dear Hawker, I would sooner have acknowledged Yours but I have had the gout: the Lejion that is to say the Infantry are disbanded thanks to Windham: we are really in a hopeful way we [[underline]] expend Sixteen thousand [[/underline]] and [[underline]] raise Four thousand [[/underline]] Men per annum: Lord Grenville at one blow destroys by the abolition of the Slave Trade the Maritime Strength of the Country and we are again threatened with invasion: to counteract which Two hundred thousand men are to be called up literally to [[underline]] do nothing: [[/underline]]
