Across the left-hand corner of folio 3a is the following note in pencil: 'This was written in consequence of General Pichegru and Dumourier wishing Government to attack Walcheren, to which I strongly objected in consultation with those officers, and was then desired to propose a scheme for offensive operations'. Sir Home Riggs Popham suggested attacks on the Island of Oleron in France and the islands of Schaven and Goeree in Holland.