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To His Serene Highness the Prince of Neuchâtel, Vice Constable of the French Empire. ARCHIVES DE 6.0-2 ARTILLERY 6.59. Sir, I, Jean Pauly, mechanic, rue des Trois Frères in Paris, formerly an officer of Swiss artillery, have the honor to present to Your Highness a war rifle that offers incontestable advantages over the rifle currently in use. Such is the fate of human inventions, which are subject to being surpassed by other inventions; but, Monseigneur, nothing establishes more clearly the preeminence of one thing over another than comparative trials carried out before the eyes of a good judge. That is why Monsieur Pauly could do no better than to submit his invention and his work to you, and to offer them to you if you find them worthy to stand beside those discoveries that contribute to the
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power of the weapon & the refinement of the art of War. This rifle, named in anticipation Carabine-Paule, has as its principal qualities: 1o To carry the ball to a distance more than double that of the ordinary musket. 2o To require neither ramrod to load, nor flint, nor cock to discharge the shot. 3o To be able to fire 10 shots per minute without passing the weapon to the left, without leaving the line of horizontal fire, parallel to the cheek line, & to be always both offensive & continuous in fire without interruption. 4o To make the infantry almost impervious to cavalry, by means of a triple rank of bayonets which, extended or shortened in a manner always solid & at will, present the three sharpened ranks of the same height & the same length. 5o Finally this rifle, free of any long-flame, insensible to the effects of rain on the powder, no longer has like ordinary muskets those puffs of smoke, so inconvenient in battle, since it has no flash, & it is never paralyzed for lack of a ramrod, since it does not need one. I may add, without too much modesty, that my process is even more applicable to land Cannons & especially to those at sea. Embrasures & gunports will no longer be dangerous. The recoil becomes almost nil. No more sponge nor rammer; less bulky cartridges; economy of powder; fewer repairs on board from successive counterblows; half as many men for the maneuver; double speed &
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double effect. Please be pleased to grant it again, Monseigneur, and the undersigned is at your service, as he always will be when it is a question of carrying out, on a large scale, this proceeding. He is, with the deepest respect, Monseigneur, Your Serene Highness’s very humble and very obedient servant. Pauly Paris, 9 April 1812.