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XXVi CONTENTS. CriAPTRR TV. — continued. 1809. The ' personal ' rule of the king so discredited, . 71 Tliat the ' State ' could undertake improvement of the War administration, ......... 71 Dundas's measure, ......... 72 Creating the thii'd of ' the three new administrative forces,' . 73 Colonel Bunbury, 73 His office in some respects made to serve as a War Depart- ment, .......... 73 The business of War administration thus, however imperfectly, compassed, ......... 74 Means by which England brought the war to a glorious end, . 74 Value of the experience she .liad gained, ..... 75 And of the inchoate War Department which had ministered to Wellington's armies, ........ 75 IV. 1816. The third of the three war administrative forces wilfully destroyed, ......... 76 The effect of this act of destruction, ..... 77 Cause of the destruction, ....... 77 The pettiness of the advantage secured by the Crown at the cost of grievous harm to the country, .... 78 Blame justly attaching upon the Prince Regent and the Ministers, 80 V. Long-protracted continuance of the crippling polity, , . SI I 'esult of the enquiry, ........ 82 CHAPTER V. THK WAY IN WHICH FR.NCE AND ENGLAND MINISTERED TO THIU h AKMIKS IN THE KASl'. I. Conditions under which the supply of the Allied armies pro- ceeded, . .84 Tlif phases of the Eastern campaign in their bearing upon the question of supply, 84