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bounty proportioned to tlieir age and 

 fi/e. The liaHaif, or light dragoons, have 

 no caiUons ; Imt, owing to tlie nnnti:il 

 fpirit of tise nation, and to the prolpect 

 of advanccnnent, tliry have always more 

 than their complement. The tUfiliers 

 are likcwife wiUiout cantons ; they get 

 thofc men wiio are not iufticicntiy tall 

 for the infantry and grenadiers. As the 

 Pruflian nobiliiy is not over-iavoured with 

 rich cftates, noblemen only are employed 

 as otiicers in the infantry and lioavv ca- 

 valry; but in the artillery and hiiffar re- 

 giments, plebeians of good education, &r 

 ivl.o have diftingulllied thcnifclvcs hy 

 their good behaviour, are alfo advanced 

 to crticer's places. In general the young 

 noblemen in Frulfia ciner ihe army at 12 

 or 13 years of age. They are ftuidaid 

 or colour bearers, with the rank of free 

 corpora! only, for the fpace of three or 

 four years, when they are made enfigns 

 or cornet- in rotation. Tiiere is an ex- 

 ception, however, in favour of thole who 

 are educated at the Ecole Militaire : 

 they are always placed as olficers imme- 

 diately on leaving the academy. 



The pay of the men in the infantry is 

 sibout 7s. per month, and two pomid of 

 bread per day; in the cavalry about 10s. 

 per month and bread. The fubaltcrn 

 officers in the nifantry have about Is. fid. 

 per day ; but in time of " ar tliey ge- 

 nerally dine at the table of the captain, 

 or chief of the company in which they 

 ferve. As the annual income derived 

 from a company confills in part of the 

 pay of thole men who are pennitted to 

 return to their homes after tne reviews, 

 it is very confiderable in time of peace, 

 not lels than 3 or 400/. ftcrling per an- 

 num ; but during war a captain's pay 

 , liardly amounts to 100/. Prou'.otion in 

 tlie I'luffiau army is as gradual and re- 

 gular as in the E;)glilU navy. Jicrit is 

 leJd(mi rewarded by any extraordinary 

 aflvunccment, except in vcf}' particular 

 cafe-.. -The moil common recompense is 

 knighthood. There are at prefent no 

 lefstlian 450 oliicers in the Prullian army, 

 v.ho aile kr.i'il'.ts of the military order 

 your le m'cr'Ue : the inlignia of which are a 

 fmall enamelled Uar,fu!pended at a narrow 

 ■white-edged black ribband worn about 

 the neck. Generid oihcer? are rewarded 

 wirli the orders ef the red and black 

 eagle, the latter of which confers as dif- 

 tinguillnng an honour as the order of the 

 f.arfer In England, Frederick the Great 

 «rcctcd ftatues to the luolt eiuiiicAt wiu°- 



riors of his time in a public fquare at 

 Berlin. 



The financial adininiftration of Pniflia 

 is exiicnv.ly limpie. livery fubject knowa 

 exactly how much, at what linie, and 

 where he has to pay his contribution. 

 There are never any extraordinary taxes 

 levied ; the iin-plus of tlic annual reve- 

 nue is amply iuliicient to provide for un- 

 common exigencies, and to carry on a 

 war of a lew years. The only diiTercnce 

 between the war and peace cllablilhmcnt 

 is the greater conl'umpiion of men, the 

 uninterrupted pcrfonal feivice of the con- 

 fcripts, aiid the citizens performing mili- 

 tary duty in the inland towns. 



ihe police in general is good ; the 

 provifions for tl.e poor are exceiient ; 

 but tiie adminifiration of jntlice, though 

 much improvcfl, is yet flow, aiid the be- 

 nefits of atrial by jury are ilill unknown. 

 Court martials, however, are conducted 

 upon the fame plan as in England, with 

 this exception, that there is u judge ad- 

 vocate attached to each regiment, who is 

 called uvditcur. 



The foreign aflairs are managed by 

 two of the jninifters of flute, and a cer- 

 tain number of counfellors of legation. 



Dax. Boileau. 

 C, Upper Enflon-ltrrrt, Pimtico, 

 October lb, 1806. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.. 



SIR, 



IN a bioirraphica] account of the late 

 Mr. Anliey, inferted in the Monthly 

 Magazine tor September 1805, it is men- 

 tioned (page 1P6) that the poem of^ihe 

 Ne^v Bath Guide "was, in a groat mea- 

 fure, l)iiilt upon Smollet's novel of Ilum- 

 phicy Clinker." 



This is certainly a mifiake; as maybe 

 eafily proved by a reference to the firft 

 editions of thofe works, or to the Monthly 

 or the Critical Review ; which will ihew, 

 that the New Bath Guide \\as firft pub- 

 lilhed hi irOG, and the novel of Hum- 

 phrey Clinker no leis than nvs yeari 

 later, viz. in 1771. 



Your known candour and love of juf- 

 ticc will doubtlcl's induce you, Sir, to 

 take an eailv opportunity of rectifying a 

 mis-fiatement, lb injurious to the repu- 

 tation of tlie late author of the New 

 Bath (iuide, the originality of which ce- 

 lebrated poem certainly conftitutes oa» 

 of its principal merits. Z. 



Auguji H, 180G. 



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