The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-10-06 00:00:00

THE PRESENT STATE
01 Tile
PRUSSIAN, Sifir,N, end HESSIAN FORCES.
At a moment when the political hotiron is again
rivet cast, and every thing seems to announce the
commencement of a formidable confliO, a ckerch
.of the respeitive forces of Prussia, Saxony, and
Hesse, cannot be uupleacant to our readers. We
derive the following horn an authentic source :
MILITARY FORCF. OF PRUSSIA.
I VAS 174 v:z.

GUARDS, 3,
A Regiment " . • • 1156
grenadwr Guards 1154
• . .
Life (;tlargi4 . 615
Camp:nes net arranged • •
• • 250
1 175,307, vie.
Reg. Rat. Men.
. 58 116 126,706
24 21,598
. . . 1 3 SWII7
- ..artaltons • 58 24,556
The whole of the. Infantry are divided under
what are termed the following inspeitions, vie. Pots-
dam, Berlin, Mark, Magdeburg, Pomerania ; East,
West, and South Prussia; Warsaw ; Upper and
Lower Silesia, Westphalia, and Franconia.
A regular Regiment consists of three battalions,
2,557 strong. The Grenadiers of two regiments
are reckoned together. Each regiment of Infantry
costs the State annually 116,800 riz dollars ; con-
sequently, fifty-eight regiments require the sum of
6,716,400 riz dollars.
The twenty-four hattalions of Fusiliers, which are
-distributed among the eight brigades of Magdeburg,
Westphalia, First and Second of East Prussia, First
sntrd Second of Warsaw, Upper and Lower Silesia,
'test the annual sum or 696,000 tie dollars. They
lave partly their own proper cantonments.
The regiment of Field Yagers, which, in 1740,
*ginally consisted of 60 men, has obtained its pre-
complement, from the year 1795 to 1802.
Ca . 40,471 Men.
Reg. Men. Horses.
Cuirassiers . . 18 10.416 9,012
Drageeu • .14 11,480 12,016
Flamm ' . .94 Sam .8,663 16,055
Towarczys . . 14 lieu. 1,611 1,551
Each of these regiments casts, exclusively of the
'horses, the annual sum of 79.000 rise dotter.; twelve
regiments, of course. ansosee to 1148,000 riz dollars.
Tlidativ.• to the fourteen regiments of dragoons,
reckoning five squadrons to a regiment, their an-
Vzpencr, exclusive- of the horses, amount to
viz dollars. or the suns total of 1,168,000
riz dollars.
The Hassan consist of nine coesplete regiments,
of ten squadrons each. besides a battalion that was
raised iii 1799, consisting. of firs squadrons. A
regiment of Hussars costs the state 117,000 tie dol.
lars, and she whole corps 1,211.500 riz dollars.
The Towarcrys were originally reined out of the
IllOnsiacs and 1 arterials Polka and, besides sabres
Oil pistols, are armed with lances. Their *usual
epa.ce amounts to 105,500 riz dollars.
THE ARTILLERY
Consists of four regiments of field artillery, or
9,186 men, one 'regiment of riding artillery, fifteen
eompanies of garrison artillery, two companies and
a command of Poatonniers. tour companies of Mi-
ners, and 89 Engineers. Total, 13.210 men.
The whole Artillery of the Eleior of Saxony
Frederick I. consists of . sue large %lows& ; and
the .Eleaor George William had at first, in 1627.
as well as King Frederick William, scarcely 300
artillerists. The four and a half regiments cost at
present, yearly. 86,000 riz dollars.
SUNDRY CORPS.
The Royal Cadets, into which 5,909 Nobles were
received, nom the year 1717 till 1796. The Insti-
' tuts of Cadets at Potsdam consists of 48 ; the Ca-
valry Field Yager*, 172; the Invalids of the Guards
at Werder. near Potsdam, 525 ; three companies
of the Invalid Corps at Berlin, 650; seventeen corn-
pasties of Invalids, in the Provinces, 2,430 ; Officers
of the train, and attendants, 24; sundry recruiting-
pentium' waggon-drivers. &c. 7.510 men.
Theo the whole force of Prussia appears to he
2.50,1:00 men; to which are to he added, three Field
Marshal Generals, viz the Dalin of Brunswick,
ifitglendorf, and the Eleltor of Hesse; seven Gene-
rote of Infantry, viz. Prince Ferdinand of Prussia,
Plisse George of Aehalt-Dessau. Coorbiere, Co-
begs Prince Hohenlohe, Kleist, and Pirch.
Generals of Cavalry ; Cosmic Kalkreuth. Schu-
Isobtrg tiehnert, the Duke Eogent of Wirtemberg,
she Duke of Sate Weimar, Kohler.
Lieut. Generals of Infantry, viz. 0 wsteie. Gensan,
Prince of Orange, Count Lusy. Mericatz, Kuitheim,
Ruitz, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Lahr,
Rachel. Schmettao, Maintain, Larisch. Arnheim,
Count Wartenskben. Reinsert. Templehoe. the
Electoral Prince of Besse, Seibert, Winning, Plotz,
Grawardf, Kalkreeth. &semen, Romberg. Thad-
den, Battorf.
Lieutenant-Gown& of Cavalry: Pritwitz, Katt*.
Elsner. Bismerk. Blucher. Holzeadorf. Brusewitz,
Heising, Count Hertzberg. L'Estocq, Baiern ; 100
Moyer-Generals, 183 C.ekraels, 62 Liens:east-Colo-
nels. and 666 Majors.
The troops of the first Eleaere of Brandenburg.
upon an equal footing with the rest of the Gelman
Princes, anginally coedited of a lifeguard of 100
maul ; hat the Seam George•Wditien. iss 16117,
maintained 4,000 men. These were by the Elector'
Frederick increased to 30,000. Xing Frederick
Willlam T. lift his successor, Frederick the Great, a
stanefing army of 75,000 men in the year 1740; and
which, what Frederick the Second cam* tis the
Crown, was 200,000 strong ; and has iocrcased un-
der the presort Monarch to 250,000.
The support of this army amounts to the annual
snorer 29' es 24 millions, about two-thirds of the
whole nooses I mid. according to the parties' of the
men raised throughout the Prussian %lonaichy.
irut 6,775.606 men are sullies" to the conscription,
and 2,81115,3 tr.: are tree.

Musketeers and Grenadiers
Fusiliers
leld Ya

TOE MILITARY FORCE Olr SATONY.
This army, in ISO!, inclosive of the guards sod
!Li! invalids. was 34.113 strong; the infantry with
the corps of cadets and the guards, cognisant at
24.183 men ; the cavalry ad 9.014 horses, and
9,09 i men; the artillery, inelasting Si eaßinsers
and 31 pantoanisra, 4144. ass& Wits 'earl/ spire