Excerpt from A Letter From a by-Stander to a Member of Parliament: Wherein Is Examined What Necessity There Is for the Maintenance of a Large Regular Land-Force in This Island F I apprehend rightly the Circum fiances of the prefix: Juneture, it is no Time for Apology, nor a ropcr Seafon to trouble you with any mpere tinencies concerning my own Modefiy em Diffidence 1n Writing; it 15 fufficient that I am induced to it out of a Regard to my Gouna try, to the Freedom and Welfare of it, and a Defirc that fome Points of the utmoi't Confe quenoce to thefe fhould be better underi'cood, and more candidly received by the People of Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.