The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-12-09
GREAT BRITAIN.

GREAT BRITAIN.
| It appears by the court calender OF the
British Empire, [1834) that their army con
taiiis no less than field marshals, % gen
erals, 222 Lieut.. Generals, 266 Major Cen
erals making 5S7 general officers; besides
those who have local rank in their colonies.
Great Britain is enabled to support this
great number o. veterans in honor by the
| following system: No officer receives ha!f
paY tor any higher rank than Chat of Lieut..
Colonel. Ii actually employed as general,
he receives the proper fun pay Of his rank !:
and most OF them ave coloncls Of regiment
situations which on an average produced
about aiQ0J per annum, [S4,a14,l)
/ In the British army there are the follow
ing regiments; . life guards, horse guard,
4 7 dlagoon guards, Il dragons, foot guards
95 foot, making total Of 125 Regiments
Besides these, are the artillery, l;.!c brigade
wagon train, East India forces, militia, &c.
--0fthc 123 regular regiments but very few
are commanded by officers of SO low arank
as Major General; not one By Colonel.
Major Generals, are often Lieut.. Colonies
Of regiments, receiving the pay without de-
4 ing much duty as such however There
i
941 Majors, making grand total Of 26l0
1 field officers; all OF whom are more or
less supported by the government.
/ In the Navy there are Sc Admrdls, g.
/ Vice Admirals, 73 Rear Admirals, besides
! 80 yellow or supcrannuated Adnirals, who
have rank and pay, but can never command,
making 223 Admirals OF these, only 9 are
in actual military command; all receive half
pay and many have governments and poll
teal situations to support them.
Very few of the British nobility encounter
the hardships q the ocean. Occasionally
a younger one goes into the service and
comes in time to the family honors, by the
death OF brother. But the army is the
] favorite service Ct thc mobiles. 4 few Scotch
lords, who are generally needy are in the
navy, though most Of the naval Lords are
creations. There are S23 Captains, s1s
Commanders, a70S Lioutenants, and 55G
Masters, Probably they have five hundred
sail Of sea worthy vessels. Of these, per-
haps 100 sail good ships of the line might
be employed.
In England there are 10 Dukes, 6 mar
qusses, los earls, 81 viScounts, and IA
blrons, making a total of G04 peers of Grca,
Britain To these must be aided the IL
elective peers OF Scotland, and % fer Ire.
land, AMI 9 pccrages, which are at present
; held by females, and it gives a total of 557
the whole number of which the house Of lord:
can consist, without new creations. Not
) fifth of this number ordinarily attend, many
very seldom, and some never.
In Scotland there are 8 dukes (all Eng
lish peers bat one) 5 Marquesses Gone al
English peer) So earls (16 English peers
4 yiscounts q English peers.) 2S Barons,
English peers and countesses in their owI
rights, . Of whom are married to English
peers and have children. Total 50 Scotch
pecrages--to thcsemay be added five or sis
recent restorations.
In Ireland there is duke, who Is an Eng
lish peer, y marquisses, q English peers,
II earls GA English pccrs,) as viscount
: (Enghsh peers, (72 barons, II English ant
peercsses, one of whom is an En- ,iisll peer
e ess and one the wife Of an English peer 1'ota
: Irish 2l5. If the English pecrages be sub
n stracted from the Scotch and Irish, and tn,
i remainder added to the above number Of 3 l.
h it will give 555 peeragcs IN the three king
6 doms, eXistingin different families or branch
:. es of families. From this number the Royu
c family are excluded.
There are 645 baronets Of Great Brit
S aim 159 of Scotland, or as they ar
Y called of Nova Scotia, and S3 Of Ireland. To
i l,ii OF III lOlilSSC great
c Of peers have baronctc;cs among their othc
e tides. The eldest baronet is Sir Edmun
y Bacon, who only dates from May %, 1911
= The English nobility is the least ancient {
Y any in Europe, though some few famiiic
It are of great antiquity. 1t is entirely OWN
&c to the fact of their mobiles blending so easil
a with the commons of their empire, that til
n aristocracy of their government is not or
/ lytolerably, but for their purposes almirabl,
20 The oldest peerage in the British cnlpil
n is the Eardom of Switzerland, which date
e from the year 1865. 1t is now enjoyed by
4, female, who is the wife of the English Mar
N qus of Stafford, SO that after her death it wi
10 descend to her eldest son the present Ea
T. Cover, and will eventually merge in tn
re marquessate.
i'd Our own modest but effective establish
ee ment presents very striking contrast to I'll
p expensive ones of Great Britain. We ha,
at in the army major general, . brigadeer
O. ] colonels, II lieut.. colonels and / mao
ne making 36 field officers, exclusive of IL
Id corps of of engineers and the general sta