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8R177,CY itZt7EIP.

THOT.YthITS ON LIBELS; AND AN IMPARTIAL H.
(IUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE 01."Ilke BRITISH
ARMY.

The calumnies which.. have lately been dirOted
against the Commander in Chief of the British Army
have • been of so coarse and siolent a nature, and
,have appeared in such a variety of shapes, that we
Pre glad to see a spirited and'ableWriter take up the
cause of his Royal Highness in Apposition to what a
respeetable Member of Parliament seems with too
much reason to consider as a systematic conspiracy
against the Royal niftily and the COnstitution-of
this Country. It is agreed on all hands, even in-
eluding those in opposition to the present Ministers,
that very great improvements have been 'made in
the British Army' since the Chief Command has
been intrusted to the 'Duke of YottK..--The follow-
ing sketch efthoaeimprovements we extract from
the pamphlet before us, and we doubt not that it
will strongly tend to diminish the, impression which
the illiberal and insidious attacks upon his Royal'
Highness may have made upon the unreflecting and
unwary. Before, 'however, we proceed to submit
this extra& to our Readers, we must observe, that
we have.
,aeldout perused a pamphlet that blended
-so much point, humour, and pleasant sarcasm,' as
' We find in the present work, with the laudable otlti
jed of giving proper intelligence to the public .on a'
subject which has been most groisly and infamously
Misrepresented by men who are evidently influenced
hr motives of the basest kind.
" The first, featorelWhich presents itself, in the
Duke of s'Yoait's Administration of the Army,' is
the stop which his Royal Highness, immediately
bui his appointment to the Chief Command, put
to the promotion which . was at that time going on,
to, an extent, and in a line, which threatened the
total extinction of every honourable and military
.feeling. Military preferment was actually in the
hands of Crimps,- who were authorised to advertise
in the newspapers the terms on which a man, with-
out any sort of recommendatien; or any kind of
merit (except that of paying them liberally for their
trouble), might be promoted to a company, and
thence regularly advanced to a majority, and lieu.-
tenant-colonelcy, ,without ever joining a Tegiment,
or doing any duty, His Royal Highness pig an end
to this infamous and disgraceful traffic, and laid
down those salutary regulations which have since
been observed; specifying' the
,Period of service,
in each rank, required, previous to further peeler-
men!.
" No officer can, under any circumstance, ob-
tain the rank of field officer, under a service of
pot years, two of which must be passed as a su-
ha:tern. '
" No officer can be promoted over the head' of
his'senior officer ; that is, the officer so promoted
must be senior to all those of his:former rank in the
regiment into which be has been so promoted.
" The patronage of the Commander in Chief is,'
therefore, much more limited than is generally
imagined :—he cannot promote Officers at his plea-
sure, Regimentally, or by Brevet ; and the number
of Field Officers' Commissions which are within the
special nomination of The'Commander in Chief will
be found, on reference to the Gazettes for 1807, not
to exceed ; and every individual so promoted had
the strongest recommendation of punt' cier, and'
length of service.
" The clothing of the army 'next called for his
Royal Highness's attention. To ascertain the bene-.
fita which have been derived to the service on this
head, it ;is 'only requisite to compare the clothing
and eqUipment of a British soldier, at this moment,
With what it .wad in the year 1794.. The means.
by which the Commander in Chief effaled this al!
teration were, it) the 'first instance, by the appeint-,
ment of a permanent Clothing Board, at which his
Royal Highness presides ;-.--by fixing the period of
delivery of clothing to one day, throughout the
'army; and taking care that lite clothing is actually
delivered at the time it is due ;--by exehangingithe
coat heretofore in use for a commodious short coat,
calculated to give Warmth and protetiloti to every
part of the •body, and exchaq,ing, the useless facings
aid Laid skirts tor a great coat-r-a comfort unknown
byture to a British soldier; and exchanging,'
various articles of firpaU mounting, (generally called
ammunition) in fa6t not. worth sixpence, for good
shoes and gaiters; by taking Care that patterns of
every article of equipmeet are sealed by the' said
Clothing Board ; and rigidly enforcing a strip cOn,
fortuity to them. If these circutikances •be corisi
tiered as trifling, let it be remembered, that, in these
details the comfort and health of an army depend,
and consequently its more splendid services tit the
field'; and that it is Only by a timely, and constant
attention to the.former,'that the latter cats be cart heel
to that height which has, fur some years past, mark-
ed the 'operations of the British Army.*—There
yet was a great desideratum, in point of military
education for the officer, On whom,' after all, 'must
depend'the sticeesti of this great machine ; and Ibis
became•moie pressing, as the situation of affairs on
the Continent prevented English gentlemen sending
their sons, for military education, to the fOreign
Universities,
" The Commander in Chief, to obviate this ins-
nifest•evil, established the Royal Military College;
which, if duly fostered, and liberally upheld, by
the Government of the Country, cannot fail to
insure the important purposes fur which it It in-
tended.
" His Royal Highness's next care was to euttend
to the Soldiers, in the persons of their children, the
benevolence of Government; which the concurring
testimony of all who have visited the Institution,
evinces to have been done with judgment and tiled,
by the Royal Military Asylum. .„
• " The records of the Commander in Chief's own
Office will best declare the constant attention which
his Royal Highness has paid to the reduction' of the
half-pay,' and the beneficial consequences with

The convenience of a Soldier's dress is of no small con.
sequence in anion, and on apiarch ; fOteign service.
where inure have fallen by climate than the sword, an atten.
lion to ctothing is 01 the utmost nielment.—Yet journalist.,
and Pamphleteers (to some of whom the comfort of good
clothes is, perhaps, unknown) have been mighty facetious
upon this subject ; and have treated it as a mere tinelful mat.
ter, of cutting oft' pigtails, culls, and facings.—Prodigious
wits !—:,W here the Sti‘CCSS of a Campaign, and the lives 0411
ar;;;y- arc 111 question—how comical ! —and hew humane
withal i .