COLONEL ELERS/ NAPIER,
AUTHOR OF "SOUTHERN AFRICA," "PAST AND FUTURE EMIGRATION," "WILD SPORTS
IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, "SUGGESTIVE REMARKS ON THE
"And your Memorialists most humbly beseech your Majesty, that if the returns
and details submitted to your Majesty in this Memorial are found accurate in them-
selves, and justify the conclusions they have pointed out as resulting from them, the
Officers of the Guards may be placed in a position which will rectify the disparity
now established to their prejudice, and give them a fair chance of arriving at the
great object of the soldier's ambition, the post of command, AS RAPIDLY AS THEIR
COMRADES OF THE LINE-in a position, in short, which will put them upon a FOOT-
ING OF EQUALITY with the remainder of your Majesty's service."—Conclusion of the
'Memorial of the Guards," dated August 17, 1855.
GEORGE W. HYDE, PUBLISHER, 13 PATERNOSTER ROW.