BRITISH COMMISSARY, IN TWO PARTS. PART I. A SYSTEM FOR THE BRITISH COMMISSARIAT ON FOREIGN SERVICE. PART II. AN ESSAY TOWARDS ASCERTAINING THE USE AND DUTIES OF A COMMISSARIAT STAFF IN ENGLAND. Celui la paie moins, dit ULPIEN, qui paie plus tard: C'est MONTESQUIEU Efprit des Loix. Liv. 22. Ch. 22. By HAVILLAND LE MESURIER, Esq. " LONDON: Printed by C. Roworth, Hudson's Court, Strand, FOR T. EGERTON, AT THE MILITARY LIBRARY, NEAR WHITEHALL. 1801. Wi ΤΟ FIELD MARSHAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES, &c. &c. &c. SIR, THE distinguished and gra cious attention which your Royal Highness pays to every Department of the Army, over which you prefide, feems moft decidedly to point you out as the natural Patron of every undertaking which has in view the good of the Service, or can be useful to the Country in general; the Permiffion, therefore, which I have obtained, of dedicating the following Treatise to your Royal Highness, not only calls forth my warmest gratitude, but gives me the affurance that it will obtain a more particular attention than I could otherwife have hoped for. That, |
