These are the progress reports from 1807 - a list of scheduled updates for 2007 is at the bottom of the page.

Letter from Brigadier-General Twiss to Lieutenant-General Morse, 16 January 1807

The Carriage Department at Woolwich have mounted one of the Howitzers intended for the Towers on the Coast, so as to fire in a Radius...

Many different opinions still exist amongst Officers of known talent and Service, respecting the description and number of Artillery best adpated to these Towers as well as the manner of mounting them...

Might I most respectfully suggest the Master General...to direct the Commanding Officer of Artillery and the Commanding Royal Engineer, jointly to consider this subject, and...to make their report on the following points

  1. What description of Artillery appear best adapted to a Tower whose interior space is a circle of 26 ft. diameter, and erected on the sea shore, with the intention of preventing an Enemy's landing.
  2. What number of Artillery.
  3. How to be mounted.
  4. Whether any improvement can be made in the height of the Parapet or the formation of the Banquette.
  5. Whether if it is advisable now to make any change in the arming of the Towers for which the Artillery is already provided, and, if it is, what change do they recommend.

Twiss is having problems with arming the towers; many already have artillery mounted, but the exact establishment of guns has not been finalised and opinion is divided, hence the request for the Commanding Officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers to confer and make a decision.

Twiss envisages the officers concerned attending the experiment taking place at Sandgate Castle next March (that organised by Major (now Lt.-Gen) Douglas that was postponed last December) and then conducting any further tests on the towers in the neighbourhood before reporting to the Master-General of the Board of Ordnance.

Unfortunately, documents dated to the subsequent six months have not been located, if any have survived. Therefore the next update will not be until August.

Scheduled updates for 2007

Material is scheduled for these dates although research may reveal material of intervening dates.