Copy of a letter from Charles Frederick, William Rawlinson Earle, Edward Winnington, and Charles Cocks, Office of Ordnance, London, to John Manners, Marquis of Granby, 1765 March 29, enclosed in Granby to Gage, 1765 June 29

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Office of Ordnance
29th. March 1765.
My Lord
Having lately received Returns
of the several Persons paid upon the Staff in
North America we have taken the same into
consideration together with Sir Jeffery Amherst,
Letter to your Lordship of the 18th may last
signifying that on a due Consideration of the
extensiveness of the Country and the many
Forts that must necessarily be kept up at least
until the Country is more settled he did not
would be
think it adviseable to Reduce the Staff of the
Royal Artillery then but that in some time
it might perhaps be lessened without detriment
to the Service.
We beg leave to represent to your Lordship
that we are of Opinion the Forts that must
necessarily be kept in America can be no Reason,
for Continuing the Artillery Staff as Establish:
ments for those Forts may be formed at less
Expence; and as the Troops are not in motion
at present and the Indians in general have
agreed to terms of Peace, de humbly submit
to your Lordship, whether at this time, and -
under these circumstances the Expence of
the