Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-30
HER PRAYER WAS HEARD.

/ all 10 1000 H6Il, were scCuTeu 1Oi
service against the Colonies In vain
did the parliamentary opposition ap
peal to the Bill of Rights, and deny
the Kings right to introduce for.
eign troops into the Kingdom in
time of peace. They were told that
Minorca and Gibraltar were not
parts, but merely dependencies, OF
the Kingdom, and that the Ameri-
can insurrection constituted state
of war. The debate was long and
bitter, but the decisive vote of 2O5
to IS in the Commons, and IS to 81
in the Lords, showed how much the
partisans of Government exceeded
the friends of the Colonists in mum.
Der.
No sooner was England's inten-
tion to raise troops in Germany
known, than officers of all grades,
who had been thrown out of ser
vice by the close of the Seven Years'
War, and the consequent reduction
of the armies for which it had found
employment, came crowding with
proposals to open recruiting offices
iand raise men. How men were rails
ed has already been told. George,
in spite of his royal convictions, felt
IA humane scruple: ''To give German
officers authority to raise recruits for
me is, i'll plain English, neither more
nor less than to become a man-steal-
er, which l cannot look upon as a
very honorable occupation" But
Royal scruples seldom go far in the
interest of humanity. Recruiting
officers with full
PERMISSION TO STEAL MEN
were soon busily at work in the
name of the King of England. Bus
lest and chief among them were the
German Princes, who bad found this
a very profitable branch of COM
merce in former times, and were as
much in want of English guineas as
England was in want of German
soldiers.
There was no time to lose. If the
campaign of 1915 was to open with
vigor, reinforcements must be speed
lily on theil way. Sir Joseph Yorke,
an experienced diplomatist, familiar
with the ground, was instructed in
the summer of 1775 to ascertain on
what terms, and in what numbers
men could be obtained. In Septem-
Der, he replied that Hesse-Cassel,
Hesse-Darmstadt, Wurtemberg, SAKE
Gotha and Baden were ready to
furnish any number of troops at a
given time and for fair price. The
Crown I'rince of Hesse-Cassel, in
particular, was very earnest to strike
bargain, and close upon his heels
came the Prince of Weldeck. Their
own letters, mostly in bad French,
remain to this day in the English
archieves, to bear witness to their
degradation. 81
The most important among these
petty Princes was
THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.
His little territory of about sixty
square miles had a population of
l, 800, 900, and an income of 81, $780,
600. Ills debts amounted to nearly
$12, 100000. A lover of pomp, ca
PRECIOUS and reckless in. his expendi-
ture, he had been compelled to ad-
NIT his son, the Crown Prince, to a
partnership of authority, making the
signatures of both essential for the
validity of document. Fortunate
for the Dukes creditors, the son was
as pqrsimonious as the father was
extrayagant, and let no opportunity
for raising money escape him., Such
was the condition of the Court of
Brunswick when England sent Col.
William Fawcitt to ask for troops.
Fawcitt boas of the perseverance
with which he has beat down the
Germans prices, and the persistence
with which he has resisted some of
his claims. The main object of the
transaction won, England got her
soldiers, 900 infantry and 800 light
dragons s-Brunswick 2her money,
her Duke aud Minister heir especial
pickings, and the English Envoy a
diamond ring worth 91OO as a re-
ward for his good offices.
The first division was to start at
once for the seat of war. On ex-
animation by the British Commits
ioner it was found to contain too
many old men. The Dukes zeal for
the Kings service did not prevent
him from palming off upon him men
ALTOGETHER UNFIT TO BEAR ARMS.
''Fhe front aud rear" wrote Fawcitt
to Lord Suffolk, ''are composed of
sound and strong men, but the CEN
tire is worthless. 1t is composed of
raw recruits, who not only are too
small, but also imperfectly grown,
and IN part too young" Nor did the
trickery end here. This same Duke,
who lived surrounded by expensive
mistresses, and paid the puryeyor of
his pleasures $4,000 thalers year,
sent off his soldiers upon late spring
voyage, with uniforms unfit for SER
vice, and no overcoats or -cloaks. 1t
was not till they got to Portsmouth
that they obtained their first supply
of shoes and stockings. Their COM
mander was compelled to borrow
$4,000 from the English Govern
ment in order to procure for his
starving and freezing mon the sim
plest articles of necessity.
Thus far they had had the rapaci-
ty of their own sovereign to contend
with. They now came into contact
with the rapacity of English trades
men. When they got to sea and
opened the boxes of dragroon shoes,
they found them to be thin, ladies'
shoes, utterly unfit for the purpose
for which they were designed.
Towards the end of May, the sec
ond division was mustered into SER
vice. They were nearly all recruits,
levied especially for service in Amer
lea; many of them, as in the first,
too old or too young, or imperfectiy
grown and too feeble to carry mus
ket. But the blame called forth by
the condition Of the first division
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