SIR,

In presuming to solicit your Royal Highness’s protection for the following pages, I at once gratify two of the first feelings of my heart; the expression of profound reverence for Your Royal Highness’s illustrious person, and the most perfect devotion to the service at the head of which Your Royal Highness presides with such distinguished honour.

To whom indeed can a soldier dedicate his work with so much propriety as to a Prince who by the unanimous suffrage of the British Army is hailed by the glorious title of “The Soldier’s Friend?”

I can only regret that these volumes are not more worthy the patronage with which Your Royal Highness has been pleased to honour them, by deigning to accept their dedication; but whatever they may want in interest, from the confined opportunities of a Prisoner, I trust they will be found to contain the expression of the patriotic feelings of a British Officer, who glories in his unalterable attachment to Your Royal Highness’s August House, as well as in the devotion and respect with which he has the honour to be,