Letter from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, Halifax, to John Wentworth, 1795 November 14 : autograph manuscript signed.

Acknowledging Wentworth's "letter of yesterday"; agreeing that the "principle" on which the Royal Nova Scotia Regiment "was raised, implied a general Service in that Corps only" and therefore never thinking himself "authorized" to transfer a soldier except volunteers to the Fusiliers; promising that if "that [Regiment] is ordered to leave the Province" and there is any member of it with "real property in the Province, as your Excellency's making application to me at that time, to restore such Man to the Provincial Corps, your wishes shall be attended with immediate acquiescence, upon another Man being delivered [...] who is not entitled to his Discharge at the reduction of the Provincial Corps"; affirming he has never and will never transfer any soldier "enlisted for the [Royal Nova Scotia Regiment]" to the Royal Fusiliers unless he volunteers; addressing possibility that Wentworth thinks Edward's only "motive" in "authorizing" the "transfers which have taken place between the two Corps" is "getting rid of a number of undersized Men in my own Corps, in lieu of better ones which I get from the Provincial one"; stating instead his basis was "far more general than any such selfish idea", including public fiscal considerations; outlining "two classes of Men" in the Royal Nova Scotia Regiment he feels entitled "to order at any time to join any of the regular [regiments] under my command": those "received from regular [regiments]" and regiment of the line deserters now in the "Provincial Corps under promise of pardon"; stating Wentworth knows "so well" Edward's "Sentiments" regarding the second type of soldier and none shall ever be ordered by Edward "to be transfer'd from the Provincial Corps" unless strictly necessary to prevent its "reduction."