The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-03-09 00:00:00

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observed, that it would not be necessary to .
Pinch of their time. Gentlemen on the other I._
were so well acquainted with the nature of the forms
of these Estimates, that he had no observations to
offer on that head ; but might content himself with
stating the variatigne between the amounts for
the present and the fast year. These variations be
should premise arose solely from the increase of *eel
establishments, which, from a general view of the ! flora
matter, would be found to have been augmented by j the foresee'
the number of 12,000 men, which occasioned. the ; Its *which to
additiinal enema of 390,0001. This increase,• he ' vice
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repeated, was owing to the increased numberi of eur syst
effective force. The best mode to vender these eiti- jin
mates clear. to Nisi Committee, would be to bite them , nent,
head by head; and though this would lead him some- ? oonsisten
what into detail, yet he trusted that would be cam- the
peeved by the satisfactory view it allowed of par I who ....e 'timber were
was the roe cause of a digeretsee, which appeared.' 2,310 of foreign cavalry at home? Without airy ilt•
military forces. The first head was the Land Forces, ' by the formation of seven independent Cotepanies;
of, at first slot so-attraordhsary, Ind. even almost in- tension to the captious, ill-founded, timid
which comprehended the whole regular anon pith i composed of Frenchmen. At the . beginningalarms,
the exception of foreign corps iu British pm, ,the •i•tostilities the desertions from the enemy in Spain Lord (*Deluded by mar. 'concerning foreign troops in this country, he men
3,627,501 e. , say that if it, was desirable to send themabroad, •
regiments employed in the territorial potsseesieni Of shad been confined .to Germans, &e. but •Witidiethe i it
the East India Company, and the embodied Milltig. : inst•enar suet a haln• the privellous to whisk (bey, purpose of de= , applied peculiarly to the cavalry. There was no
fistAlishment I difficulty in recruiting our at 1
gno
horsewu for domestic imr.
some; therefore
In this part there had been an accession 00;6'00 ;were. exposed, had induced many Freitehmen to !
. 1 •ans did not want the foreign men, and' an additional sixpence of 1199,0001 L "In ' come over to the other side. . These could not be '
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noticing a few of the subdivisions -wider this bead, inetorperated with'our Foreign Corps ; andin order ' to the ! poses. The foreign cavalry had shewn themselves
lie stated that an augmentation had taken place` in to obvert useful and military eervice from them, it tendency of i equal in gallantry to our-own in Spaie, and wore
the household troops, 'to the number of .970 mei,' at was detesernined to • form them Into these small Mill*, and ; even examples to us: yet there were only !eel of
the expence of 1601. , : This. consisted of: two' troops or tempanies, las time stature of their services his .regret: them abroad. The augmentation of l(0 to the Life
troops *tided to ft Lif4P; aid two test fhe !terse ' might be, rather than viainnly 609 altogether ,hise pot.. Guards• caused a' peetnarient increan of charge o f
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Guards, in consseesionco of the reginewitieinerignisit , lute one mist of. force. The next s&ad was the rafts had. ' 91531 • e while 214' Light Des
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'on foreign serviteitrilie Peninsula n end to ottitllee4 WI" MilitalVeatiege, .hi the e*stce 6fAltjnA elseited ; 61951.—enleist year it was • proposed ei build a
'increase of 419 mien • iscl '9OOOl. of expence lit the ' there was an increase of Ifll/0014 but a balance of by the , barrack for ensenife Guards, which was to cost
ilst and 23d regiments of. Light Dragoons'. 'ln the B,BOOl. left nett year would Nebo* this item to only casaba, that tkir ‘ e50,00411.e glut ~the scheme was suspended. If
titintry of the line then' an In accession t 5300. 9,4001-. letteding 2,8001; in' the Civil Department, Ihtelhdeirto teat% we built it now, it would require 100,00 e!.
Men, and an expencea top,ogoi. which tweet, partly! expended is. the pm-cease of 'a
house at' Anthem, r a feces more. At a moment or pressure like the
present,
from the addition of otherbattalions to several re- ; rendered necessary by the establishment at Sand- inaudible the household troops need not be augmented. Wi.v
giments, and partly from the formation of other •• burst, and also including the expence of two on the go to so great an expence, when a tench less sues.
a cteran battalions and provincial corps. Of the . new Companies of Cadets. In the next head, the sow who would answer the purpbse of recruiting the cevairy
latter the number *as 2000 more, and the eipesice Royal Military Asylum, there was a small increase. ho were i abroad more_effectually ? It was customary to state
85.0001. The increase of veteran battalions was 'ln the allowances to retired Chiplains, &c. the testis :tees on ; what force was intended "for foreige, and what for
accounted for from the number of men whom thetoils mates were nearly the same; and in the Medicines, of tags ; home service ; this did not tie up Government: bat
of the campaign had worn outland who, though unlit ; and Hospital expellees, there wen. a diminution to the the Horse it was essential' in some points of view. In 1811, it '
for the hardships of the field, were fully competent amount of 25001.. The following herd was the Com- its and ! was stated (hat 8000, and in 1812, that 63;003
to garrison duty, and for this purpose they had been passionate List, in which there was an increase of .el he in- . were intended for home service: but, now We had a
formed into this description of force at Lisbon. A , 47001. in consequence of there being more claimants, ing sun larger proportion employed ei offeesivs, war Army!,
btligarrison battalion had also been formed in the West : whose merits demanded compliance with their ntipli. character and we -were not, throueli tne successful chaeee ref
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'lndies, of soldiers rendered unfit any longer to endure • cations. On the next head, the Irish Barrack depart- era in the affairs on the Continese, under the Deellsit; f,f
the fatigues of active service. Another troop had ' ment, there was an increase of 95001. occasioned by t period keeping o many men for lime defence. rh, wiseid
also been added to the Waggon Train, by which a transfer of an item which had been placed, under by the adsait, we had Rot at home any great number of iii-
that force was made to consist of 12 troops in- another head, and by the rise in the price of necessaries ing for fantry to send en foreign 'service. The great and
stead of 11. They were thus disposed of:-9 troops for the troops. The Commissariat Department of r which real complaint he had to make against the vast ex.
were in the Peninsula, and 3 troops were at home, • Ireland exceeded the last year's estimate by 28,0001. ne absur- pen:lnure in the es. deletes; arose from the enormous
for the purpose of recruiting and preserving a depot in consequence of the increase of forage money for dines and inflictions of this Board in the way of establishment of the. Staff, which, with:sat any ne.
to supply contingencies among those upon service. the cavalry, and the delivery of great coats, and " dress werelo great, as to call forth an almost gene- cesette whatever et home,- was contieuel not even
There were this year also two additional Fencible 15.000 pairs of shoes to the men. The last head was' ran memoritsl from the Army on the Subject. One 'as it heel been. iii the crisis of danger, !e;t %%as
Regiments raised in Canada and New Brunswick • that of superannuations, anti in this there was a of their projects was to deprive the dragoon or hie vela:4ly increased. The fact was, tha' oit esti.
the former called the Glengery Fencibles, consisted diminution of 5411. from the death of the late Mr. ' boots, for they actually proposed to allow him two blisement
.at home was all. Atkin without cavalry,
of Scotsmen who had settled in that province, and Lewis,although the retirement of Col. Paterson from shillings for that which cost 11. 83. His Reyal withsipt infantry,' without any -real force cf any
the latter were called the New Brunswick. Their office, with a pension had been added to the 'charge. highness the Rune of York, howeser, had the good real „description. • lie therefore nhought that the
services were limited to North America, where they The general view, as he had already stated, would sense to cancel .:ho warrant., and dissolve the Board. Noble lewd ought not to press this part of the
were found to be very efficient ; so much so, indeed, ' give an increase of expence of 399,0001. but a. de. In 1812, another Board was established, at the head Estimates on,' the Committee, as a just 'or expe-
bad a former Giereery Regiment *neon, that on vo- ductiost of 18,0001. from this would leave the correct of which was Lord Harrington. 'As the former (limo part of ,the expenses to be incurred : for ha
lunteering their seri ices generally, their offer was total about 381,0001. With respect to our force, it Board attempted to deprive the dragoon of his hoots, &suet fakir net It' to the good sense and candour of
received, and they now constituted the 101 th Regi- was satisfactory to state that the difference between the latter tried to deprive him of his, breeches, for the Comnettee, whether the expepees caused, as they
went of the line. The miscellaneous charges under the effective strength at the end of' 1811, and the end instead of lenther
.breeches, so proper for cavalry had been,gbfr the dangers .shish threateued us front
this first head were explained in the Estimates, by of 181e,was very favourable, notwithstanding see. service, thennsard oetiered' Anriteo;.feb, pantillootts abet:444MM not terminate alien chase dangers
memorandums placed opposite to them. The increase extent and .magniende of tile services in which our to he worn by the cavalry. From Iles-new arrange- . ceased to vast 1 There was one item o'neetreandistany
was apparently 151,0001. hat the suns which had armies were engaged; notwithstanding the casualties meat a profit resoltedle «the Colonels of 'regiments expenditure, to which he was deirotis of -calling
been saved from non-ereetive .!:rims for regimental of long, active, and harassing campaigns; marches, of near 7001. a-year. Reverting to the absurdity of, the attention of Gentlemen: he meant what was de-
ty,tabl:shtnents, would reduce the vote to only 61,0001. disease, and losses in battle. Surmounting all close the dress imposed upon pert of the army, and parti- , signatml the repairs of the Horse G oards, sued
This 61,0001. arose from the larger sums expended isi obstreles, we :and an actuel itiereesa of 10,200 eir..r. cularly upon the cavalry, he reprobated the expense- amounted to the sum of 10,0001. although a similar
this than in the former yeas on tile recruiting service, tive melt. Or these, a considerable portion indeed which itlnilleted on the thficers—an expense to which sum had beets voted last year. The sum to be applied
both in' England and Ireland. Gentlemen knew were of the Foreign Corps, but in British atone, , their pay was by no means adequate. A Hussar to the maintenance of the volueteer corps, which ex-
that the Estimate, on this point, was Galen-sated reeve was a clear augmetita:ion of 2030 men, besides Oilicrsr's jacket cost 23 guineas, his pelisse 21 guineas, ! ceeded2oo,oool. might, with grtat propriety, be saved,
upon the expence of the preceding year; but the 400 Spaniards, who had beets incorporated with them his embroidered pantaloons 4guineas, his sword, cap; : for these corps were but nominally kept up ; and how-
great increase of the number of recruits raised in the in the Peninsula. He Lordship then proceeded to I belt, &c. GO guinea', his horse furniture 18 pintas; • ever laudable their origin was, it would not be denied,
prevent year, had rendered the calculation founded advert again to the successful nature of the recruiting ' making in the whole 126 guineas. Tht pay of a Core' that the objects for which they were first formed had
on the year before insufficient. On the whole, on. service within the lust year, ss hich he contended had net of horse was 1461. a-year. It was impossible ! been long at ad end. Yet a sum of 14,0001. was
der this head, 4-ould be found an increase of men to not arisen from commercial distress, but was gene. , that his expenses could be less than 3001. a year.— !appropriated to the payment of the Staff of this part
the number of 9600, and of expence to the amount rat throughout the country. One cause to which This was a misses evil, and one which required re- iof the establishment, when there were no volunteers
of 299,0001. The second head referred to regi- be attsibuted it, was to a change in the recruiting dress. . • Ito inspect. Why, he was justified hi asking, was
meats in the East Indies ; but as these were by law system, by employing officers well calculated for the i ' et:
.itejettenEß, whose' name we did not learn,' not that service per:formed by General and other
declared to be payable out of the revenues of the service, and giving them districts with the command said,' that the real' number added to the army wasl Officers of the Staff who had nothing else to do ?
Company, it was only necessary to naeseion them, of all parties therein, though not belonging to their ! only 221000, and the real loss •
29, 000 From the '•The calling out the Local Militia was another item
that the whole state of the Army of Britain might own regiments, instead of young officers, who ac- ' Gazettes, we might see that a greater proportion of, of expence, altogether unwarranted by the present
come into one complete view. The next head was cepted the task rather as a leave of absence, than as Witish troops had been killed than of foreign : one conjuncture of public affairs; for our internal secu-
the embodied Militia, in which there was only a a service. The experiment hail first been tried in the third of our addition to the army, however, was in,rity was at no former period in a more happy stage;
difference of two men, and expence 17,0001. in . Gloucester district, and from its success extended to foreigners. During the last three months the Nobleland most eertaiulv when one-third of the population
consequence of the vote of last year, respecting the four or five other districts, in all of which still prey. i Lora-had said the loss was 4000; yet our Gazettes i was taken away 'from agricultural pursuits, without
supeniumera ties being diminished. The next head ing productive and beneficial, the system would now ' Made it Only 15041. Why not peblish fairly? The lany apparent or probable danger, it was high time
was that oi,Geocrol Staff and Garrisons 9 and in be generally resorted to. The 'continuance of the ' country' was not afraid of looking at its dangers.—e that an alteration should' be adopted in so expen-
this there was an increase of 41,0001. fatting to officer in the district depended on his .success, and The los was thus two 'or three times greater Allan ' sive and useless a system. If the savings which
the augmentation of the Staff seeing abroad, par. the plan would, in the first ills'auce, have the was supposed. It would have been more satisfac- I might with perfect safety be made frcen all these re-
ticularly in the Medical Department, and to the good effect of disengaging 700 Officers, and join. tory if the Noble. Lord had proposed some plan to : trenchments were calculated, it would he found that
transfer of 15,0001. which had heretofore been ing them to their several regiments. Another ne diminish the expense. The numbers raised-had been : they would amount to a very considerable sum,
cnarged in the Army Extraordinaries; for the lle-. the improvements was to allow a larger share of the raised by defacing the militia. We had a better de- ! which, might be applied to what was, in fact, the
putty Quarter-Master-General, Sc. but which was now ''reward to the non-commissioned officers, upon whose scriirtioir both of men and horses for the Cavell than grand object of the country at the present moment,
placed among the Army Estimates.' This addition exertions time success in recruiting must, in a greet otheriuttions ;. )'et we were only superior on min ! the carrying on of offensive operations, in concert
also arose from the pay of a Commander in Chief in • measure, depend, hoivever.active and diligent their green). He was not anxious for peace by di ' ce-1 with our allies, against the common enemy.
the Manritins, 104 the arpointment .a.:ares!vai new superior officers might he; The number
.p[-.s crtiltiLfel concessions.; ...hut wisest it did Come? our army, ! Mr, RILEY ADDINGTON differed totally from
Commissions in the West Indies. The meet head was • raised last year was 14,432 by ordinary recriiiiiiii. •of course, meet le rminVitild. ' The wit: in the : his flqiii. Friend, with respect to the, calling out of
that of full pay to Supernumerary Officers, which This was a great increase, as in the preceding years it Peninsula was the field ner making good officers ; the Lneat Militia. Three-fourths of them had never
exceeded the estimate of last year 10d01. in COnSea . bad been rising from 9 and 10 to 11 mid 12,000.-- but though great operntione wire' to be seen there, . beets essembled, arid 4 would be absurd not to give
quNtoo of the treater member of thew ()direr% ; Thevolunteets from the tenni were lieerlyeoirrr viEvia-rpirinO- kgewlirkieriy-Wiriii-ip—ply the time both to the Officers and to the men to know
M;)ose services tle,erved so well of their country, : the full number allowed, namely, 9,91 K) snaking a right principles to militate-Mover:lents. The senior each other. To do justice to the system, it ought
leitiog reared. The next, was the Public .Depart- total to the regular army of 21,335. The place of department or our military education ought to be ,to be fostered and encouraged in tunes of absence
in: 't Allot; ances, in which time jncrease was 28,0001.; the volunteers from the militia was filled up by beat extended for the Formation of more skilful officers. : front all danger, in order to resider it erseient in the
arising from a larger suns being necessary to the Pay jof dram,-awl therefore he might itate the total ad. ! Mr. lIUSJUSSON said„ that he had already called hour of peril; and he should, beg leave to maintain,
Office for Exchequer fees. There was alto MS it.. eitioll to the regular army to have bean gained by the the attention'of the Ilousi to the effect of so large a ' tisk it was no solid argument against the Local Nri-
crease of G(XB. in the Commander in Chief's Offiesel access of the recruiting service. This was a most grimily en the public credit, He should not dwell on . litia to say, it ought not to be kept up and improved
frn::a his Secretary's becoming entitled from his :sr lisfactory contemplation, and it must afford the that subject 'now, as the Chancellor of the Exche- : because its services were not actually wanted. The
length of services to a largsr • slaty, viz. 5,5001.—: Louse delight to see that the ardour'aad spirit of the quer had himself called on the Rouse to consider . object Government and the country Mel in view was,
Tee War Office was nearly the same as last year.) people rousedin proportion totlie demands upon their that pantie his general statement of our finances. ' to resider it fit for the pressure of any exigency,
The Aitintatit-General's Office required 9351. from services. It might he necessary to explain the din It would be n proper time to discuasthe metter evhen whenever real danger might threateh our interim; se-
ee a. rangement bring made that the Deputy-Ailjn. i farm* which existed between the number of e,asualtises that In sistess came on. Whoever thought we were . curity.
t.:iii-fiteieral should receive the full pay of his rank ;! ulna were accounted for, and those which really less bows(' now than heretofore, to pay attention to i. !Mr; FREMANTLE animadverted upon the vast
nisi a similar arrangement line taken place hi the' hia happened. le tho account of the casualties which , economy, paid the new plan a bad compliment.— addition of expense caused by the employment of tlet
Quarterelastcr-Geeesaiss Department, in which,' had beets given, all tense which had happened on ; Who could examioe its foundations, and not see and Horse Guards on foreign service. The loss inctirrer:
however, there was a tliiiiiiutiois of 501)1. in the' foreign stations were included. Some persons, who feel that it meat depend on its necessity? if our by 973 mien in that instance was not I( ss their
charge for the &Tilt for militiry knoiledge. There! knew that the case was so, had expressed their slur- exigencies were to be prOvided for, for many years 38,0001. nith respect to the recroiting'system, he
was nothing more worth notice under this liesul.-1 prise at the emall•amount of the casualties slated in of war, as late years had been provided for, we must , was authorized in concluding, that as 14,000 re-
in the next, that Of the In-Pensioners of Chelsea See return.' The return which 'had been called fur by: be invoked in great difficulties, increased by this tents onls had been obtained for 510,0 ) 0 1 . each of
and Kilmeinham Hospitals, there was an addition of an lime Gentleman, was that of the casualties for . new measure. The first point of the present esti- them cost 311. per man. elle could not suppr.ss, his
thirteen hundred pounds from the pensoners this;. 1812, which necesetrile did Ilatillelude those which mates which he objected to, related to the two reei- ' surprise nt finding, from the papers on the table, t: at
year receiving full clothing, which they only did i had taken place during the latter months of 1811.; meats of Life Guards. .The 28,0001. increase was' General Dienecey was still employed, a.t.t I I
oie,i: he
every other year. In the next head, the Out-pen. iSo that those Perm's who had professed to feel ' only a part; that being'for the mere subsistence. 'lles had been dismissed from-his nine 4 lima:A-111as-
hese Establishments, there was an ad.l so .much astonislimeet at the smallness of the ! augmentation of expemice might be seed to arise in . tie-Gemini!, and that he ceetiessed to lioness a
claim of 38,0001. as arrear of pensions of number, probably thought that the latter mouths of some degree ft-OM time augmentation of their num- salary of 20751. per mime. Ili speaking of the aii-
vs in Itelandebut this would be met by 1811 were included in the Mum On the one i hers by, the Iwo troops additional. But as to ex- ! litary College, lie wished to do every justice to that
v voted and unexpended. The elesenth hand,• the itemises of men added to the Army, daring' pence generally, and as to equipments) were they ex silent establishment. The plan was entitled to
tnat of Widow's Pensions, and in this Mt, amounted to 304162 ; including those rented not reckoned before. the very best in the king-' his best encoinium, and the
genets' execueon of the
an increase of 12501. owing to there being by regular( lirli-• d tie see. Yet in some pasts
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money fallen in from deaths or marriages.

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Ose the otbir heed) the casualties of ltlittitnoeuted

gem t was net competent to military de.. • plan° deserved his %-vartuest pr_
tails, Ind ha must cooefive, diet U they were not of the internal arrangeinput_ Ile had from his (Iwo
the most fit fOr foreign service, they were tho best' experience remarked bottle defects. Ile had to ev-

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in the next head, the . V*linden Coelss, thf.llllls..
pence was 55,0001. leis than In the former rail '
.4..0A'..'..,i.....- is u atom. Tfib left !VW rune- *a% and metropolitan Alice. They were Corp,
to otosain wby taps was se distingalshed hi appearance pod equipment 41 to
and a further reduction of 8,3001. had taken placrt In . . ' ' .. - le%
the Local Militia, Eros the ',deaden of (heir num...lse • ,wr. , - l',. wwisosswied tor, it would blf NON, excite the:approbation of all foreigners whom he had
i miry to, .' ( , . 1,, • A regiment b esnlititai tenteree( with. Officers had told him they
oyhTwieeurge,
ben, so consequence of the Act of last Sorkin. The
nett good #.lkaikAhe Forlekrogepst aid ImsladeSike Ow.; ..,
.... was accillelltettidalt 110 Set so well adapted ferimmedlite service in the Pp.
gepOimmetel Kitinilife, . Rare tiler, stat.an U.' l eleelk .t' ...:.
.._ --, all *op, I, ..ullog *VD liotipla war. After the battle of Snlamancs, when
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mug of. e, men, ...,,,r, ezpehtm aritdeg !so ntbn , Cr • ', ils to be MiGitettivilc me at scenes opened upon Lord Wellington, he was
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.61 ibo . hoop ..poion; ands; service, , - be** detachments': ilwait
mit:tdrossofcatorvaiadrvymfoocer itthaeoptilitteinsheoafrct
aosfoilpesin, and his
Illay:.,ll4l3onlisktheot etee4iredtive The battle was on the 22d of July, and orders were
the formation of two .fouggiglgteran DatAlictgit. llt Relletftrietleti
Ih which to employ these men, worn out In our set.imen * , . -
vice, instead of sending them home as before. This ! hit 0 hiiiho,..4.ooo,figilipqtery accounted fm by given to send the Guards in August : -they left I.0:1•
system had been altered, and the new mode adopted : their Commanding Offivis), there was .e, perpetual don in October, and came to Lisbon after the corn,
In consequence of the present state of the Cond. I balance Of these ,nsleii-• who, from not being in: pairs was concluded. There they remained till
nent, which subjected these bravetnen to danger in. I (Jaded in &het Oa list bf effective mien at haute or some time last month. Was he to learn that ud
consistent with the character of this country, and ! abroad, wesdirmeke op the di/femme *igen' the, other cavalry could be sent with more expAlltion,
the protection we were tlound to bestow upon these I number acrissittod for
.'lit .the return of• casualties; when we were stated to have 12,000 British at howe?
who had served US. The et amul was also increased and the minsfser 'slick *at actually deficient. Such That none of these were ready ?-11341 we not i' ,
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laccurate/ 'The Noble Lord thee wad
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ing, asitlieheistimr, 44 That the sum Of 3,82
lb, gran to his Majesty, for the purpose
! fraying dr' .expences of the Military gstAli
of tfie kingdom."' : • • • ' -
1 ' Captitin BENNETT; strongly obiorte.d
soluntaeriag froM the Militia, the tenth
' Thick Oots to injure the character otthe Milt
;14,41sgest tthe Oilicesa. Ifs eigpssissest his
3, ise 'OA oi4Oststisilsit Mr. Wed** .11
bryikpriseeeral id. .11 was. true, the( reeroi
~at ihe, •roieut tgookmat, ete •-oPtiou ,between
• and ioilimitidArtise; bat it 56 7.l4opened,
influeispe. of crimps, acid by. other ceases, t!
ailvan4ge to which thit optima was littetidedi
01l 4as c pletely lost to the country., Aft .t
observa ions on the 'casualties (which Ter, in
in the , lallery), he prOceeded,,to remark
Board 1 Army Clothing.—ile wished to kni
were t active Members of that Board--wl
the ri ckganliaruts—wlio were the put
of oste h feathers—who were the fasteners
—who ere the military milliners of the
Guards. Nothing could exceed the absurdi
bad taste which prevailed on this subject, am
' stanced e case of a regiment of huggers hav
Pred con derable deteriorafion-of military cl
from theseridiculous circumstances. A new er
clothing of the army had commenced with that
which had been peculiarly dictiliguish4l
name of the new era. A Board of Clothi
the cavalry, was establidtel, at the head of
was placed the Duke of Cumberland. The