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 APPENDIX. 407 prepared by Mr Guthrie, the distinguished President, for that year, of the College of Surgeons, who had served in the Peninsular war, and there acquired great experience. The sketch, it seems, was sent, so early as February, to the Duke of I^ewcastle, to Lord Raglan, and also to the Director-General. Note 41.— Ibid., p. 412. Note 42. — Ibid., p. 412. The men whose aid he proposed to seek M"ere Armenians — a sober, gentle, well-conducted race ; and the objection (quite absurd, if meant to apply to hospitals on the Bosphorus) was that, upon hearing firing, they would run away. —Ibid. Note 43.— Ibid., p. 412. Note 44. — Because it was to the Horse Guards that the appeal.^ were addressed. NOTES TO CHAPTER IV. Note 1. — There existed, and long had existed, the Department called the ' War Office ; ' but, as we have already seen, the busi- ness there mainly transacted was confined to finance and accounts. See ante, p. 12. Note 2. — Sometimes, as we saw, the preposition used was ' of.' The king, George III., liked apparently to regard the office as quite temporary, and called Mr Dundas ' Secretary of State for ' ' ' the " War. ' See extract cited in the next note. Note 3. — The king's savage tenacity of Prerogative made him apparently unwilling to do so much as even mention the new Secretaryship in writmg without closely limiting its functions in the way above indicated. He asks Dundas ' to continue Secretary ' of State for the War — Tiamely, to keep up the correspondence wher- ' ever the war is carried on.^ — Stanhope's 'Life of Pitt,' vol. ii. p. 254. Note 4. — When the preparations for war began at the close of 1792 — and those preparations at first extended only to calling out the militia — the whole strength of our regular army was only between 17,000 and 18,000 men. Beginning hostilities with great eagerness in February 1793, our Government, down to the end of that year, was only able, it seems, to bring into the field