Letter signed : Gibraltar, to [Frederick Augustus] Wetherall, 1802 Dec. 21.

Reporting that he is anxiously awaiting Dalton, "not only on his own account but" because he expects him to bring letters from Wetherall and others; remarking that the hot weather "oppressed [him] very much" and giving details of his health; noting that "there appears no possibility" that he will be able to leave Gibraltar during the hot months next summer: "I have made up my mind not to think of a move of any kind for the next eighteen months at least"; telling him that "much progress ... has been made in restoring order, discipline, and regularity in this Garrison," but he has had "a vast deal of opposition to contend with on the part of the officers, who certainly are of a very different class from that of which the Army was composed when I joined it 13 years ago, and certainly are tainted, not a little, with the levelling principles of the day, which are so diametrically contrary to that subordination which our Profession requires"; lamenting that he doesn't have the aid of General Bowyer; writing of his troops at Gibraltar, "unless a Field Officer of great merit, activity, and knowledge is put at their head, I fear whenever the Battalion gets out of my sight, they will lose much of the improvement they have now made"; commenting on how "shamefully" Hardyman has been used; telling Wetherall that he thinks the number of troops he has in North America "ought to be at least doubled"; asking to be remembered to John Wentworth.