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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY30. 1858. 



AEMT UNDEE WILLIAM III. AT THE PEACE Or 

 KrSWICK. — DUTCH AND DANISH TBOOPS IN HIS 



SERVICE. 



The fourth vol. of Lord Macaulay's History has 

 brought the reign of William to the ^ose of the 

 year 1697 : in the next year the parliament resisted 

 all the persuasion of the King for a large standing 

 army, and reduced the whole number to 10,000 

 men, and soon afterwards compelled him to send 

 out of the kingdom the Dutch and Danish regi- 

 ments. I have not in any recently printed his- 

 tory seen the particulars of William's army at 

 that time : so I enclose you some extracts from a 

 small duodecimo volume recently added to the 

 shelves of the London Library : — 



« A New List of the Offices and OflScers of England, 

 both Civil and Military in Church and State. London. 

 Printed for Edward Castle, near Scotland Yard Gate, by 

 Whitehall. 1G97." 



The army' on the English establishment con- 

 sisted of 28 regiments of horse, together 8022 

 men ; and of these regiments 11 with 2280 men 

 were Dutch, and 3 with 918 men were Danish : 

 of 6 regiments of dragoons, with 3280 men, of 

 which 1 regiment with 920 men was Dutch : and 

 of 45 regiments of foot, with 46,776 men ; 4 regi- 

 ments with 4886 men being Dutch, and 1 regi- 

 ment with 50 companies of 100 men each=5000, 

 being Danes. There were therefore 58,078 men 

 on the English establishment (exclusive of Scot- 

 land and Ireland), and included 8095 Dutch and 

 5918 Danes. The Dutch regiments consisted of 

 horse : a troop of Dutch Guards commanded by 

 the Lord Auverquerque, 200; a regiment of Dutch 

 Guards by the Earl of Portland, 6 troops and 402 

 men'; Col. Recteren's and Count Steinboch's re- 

 giments of 3 troops and 198 men each, and Mont- 

 ponillan, Athlone, Schack, Neinheuise, Scraven- 

 more. Earl of Rochford, and Boncour regiments 

 of 3 troops and 213 men each : of Dragoons, Ep- 

 pinger's 10 troops and 920 men ; and of foot, the 

 foot guards commanded by the Duke of Wirtem- 

 bergh, 26 companies and 2366 men, and Nassau, 

 Brandenburgh, and broken regiments of 12 com- 

 panies and 840 men each. The Danes were, of 

 horse, the Wirtembergh, La Forest, and Schested 

 regiments of 6 companies and 306 men each, and 

 of foot, the 50 companies of 100 men each. The 

 strength of the English regiments was, — horse, 3 

 troops of Guards of 200 men each, 1 troop of 

 Grenadiers of 180 men, and 1 of Scotch Guards 

 of 1 18 men, the royal regiment and the late Queen's 

 Regiment, and the late Lord Galloway's 9 troops 

 of 531 men each; the other horse regiments 

 having each 6 troops and 354 men. The dragoon 

 regiments had 8 troops of 480 men each, except 



Col. Cunningham's, which was only 440 strong : of 

 the foot the 1st regiment of Guards had 28 com- 

 panies and 2240 men, the Coldstream and Scotch 

 Guards half those numbers each ; the Royal regi- 

 ment 26 companies and 1560 men, and the other 

 foot regiments 13 companies and 780 men each. 

 On the Scotch establishment there were 2 regi- 

 ments of dragoons containing 6 troops and 360 

 men each, and 2 regiments of foot, each having 13 

 companies and 700 men : together 2120 men. On 

 the Irish establishment there was 1 regiment of 

 horse of 6 troops and 300 men ; 2 regiments of 

 dragoons, each having 8 troops of 480 men, and 

 10 regiments of foot, each having 13 companies 

 and 650 men ; making a total of 7810 men. 



The list contains several other interesting par- 

 ticulars. It shows that the old servants on the 

 late Queen's establishment were kept up ; that the 

 King had his yeomen of the mouth and keepers of 

 the ice and snow, and of his champagne wine, his 

 rat-killer, and mole-taker, and two barbers ; that 

 Ulrick Horitiner was his master cook ; Sir Christo- 

 pher Wren, surveyor-general ; Grindling Gibbons, 

 master carver ; Sir Francis Child, jeweller ; chief 

 painter, Sir Godfrid Kneller ; and Alexander 

 Tate, poet laureat. Wm. Dubeant Coopee. 



81. Guilford Street, Kussell Square. 



FLETCHEE OF SALTOUN AND THE EAST LOTHIAN 

 WITCH. 



The following interesting narrative is copied 

 from No. 3. of the "Additions and Notes" to a 

 work published in 1774, called Arguments and 

 Decisions in Remarkable Cases before the High 

 Court of Justiciary and other Supreme Courts in 

 Scotland, collected by Mr. Maclaurin. He was 

 son of the eminent mathematician Colin Maclaurin 

 (the friend and correspondent of Sir Isaac New- 

 ton), and afterwards became a Judge of the Court 

 of Session under the title of Lord JDreghorn : — 



" I shall conclude this chapter of witches with a story 

 which 1 had from several persons, so very well informed 

 that I have no doubt it is true. In one of the years of 

 famine which distressed this country towards the close of 

 the last century, a poor widow in East Lothian, who had 

 a numerous family, was committed to prison on suspicion 

 of witchcraft. There was no other ground of suspicion, 

 but that, while all her neighbours round were emaciated 

 with hunger, she and her children were in good case. 

 Upon her commitment she was tortured, as persons ac- 

 cused of that crime generally were ; and confessed her 

 having been at many meetings with the devil, and other 

 absurdities. The celebrated Mr. Fletcher of Saltoun, hear- 

 ing of this, repaired to the jail where she was, and told 

 her that he was certain her pretended confession was all 

 a fiction ; and assured her, if she would acknowledge it 

 to be so, he would soon procure lier release. The woman, 

 however, persisted in accusing herself of impossibilities. 

 Mr. Fletcher replied that it was in vain for her to attempt 

 deceiving him ; that he was fixed in his belief all such 

 accusations were ridiculous ; and that he was convinced 

 her confession proceeded from a persuasion that, though 



