296 Notes of the Month on [Manrceu, 
Netherlands 142. The relation of the fleet to the population is—Great 
Britain, one ship of the line or frigate to every 82,979 inhabitants, 
‘France- 290,909, United States 316,000, Russia 686,250, Austria 
2,909,091, Netherlands 170,556.” - 
How long this humiliating inferiority in our military muster is to 
remain a disgrace to England, we cannot say. What! only one showy 
fellow in a red coat walking up and down a barrack yard, or shining in 
ball-rooms, to 229 of such useless and ill locking animals as merchants, 
citizens, farmers and manufacturers! We ought to be ashamed of 
ourselves. 
But there are better hopes in store for us. The warlike tastes of his 
majesty’s premier are making way as they ought. We understand, that 
the cabinet are already drilled to an extraordinary degree of discipline, 
all the old stiff members of the corps having been discharged, and a new 
recruiting having taken place, by which several remarkably promising 
additions have been made, fit for any service. The sergeant major 
employed to teach them the manual, declares that in the course of his 
‘experience he never met a squad more obedient to the rattan, and 
quicker at obeying the word of command. That the “ eyes right and 
eyes left” is already complete ; the kneeling in platoon very correct ; 
the general salute performed with the exactness of the most regular 
parade, and the whole done with a degree of silence, such as he never 
observed before. He has, in consequence, reported some of them as 
worthy of being made corporals, and, we heartily wish them the stripes 
that their merit deserves. 
Lord Lyndhurst is said to be indefatigable at his exercise, but he 
prefers the dragoon drill to the infantry, from his having been trained 
in early life to a charge. Undoubtedly, twelve men are different from 
twelve millions; but we rely upon his lordship’s profession and prac- 
tice alike, and are assured, that let who will tumble, he will stick to 
the saddle still, and push on through thick and thin. 
Lord —— is one of the last brought in; and a fine strong backed 
recruit he is, he can bear any thing; he, to be sure, lies under rather an 
awkward suspicion of having deserted from every corps that he engaged 
in during about forty years of all kinds of service. But he swears, that — 
he is sobered by misfortune, and the man has certainly a look of ragged — 
repentance ; besides, he will now be kept to his tether, and the first attempt 
to call his soul his own will be the last. As to desertion, let him try - 
that if he can; his face is too well known at every receiving house in 
the kingdom, and not a corps will have any thing to do with him. As 
it is, he is fit only to stand centry at the custom-house docks, he having 
a natural antipathy to every kind of spirrr. He is, in fact, already ex- 
pecting to be placed on the list of out pensioners. ‘ 
We understand, that the fashionable vocabulary is to be reformed in 
the rising taste. That an evening party is henceforward to be called a 
drum ; and that gunpowder tea is to be the reigning potation. A dance is — 
to be a all again.—A_ conversazione retaining its old right to the name 
of bore, and cutting being more ton than ever. Some of our belles have — 
taken to powder for the first time since the French revolution, and the 
favourite is marechale. Even the clergy have submitted to the general 
influence, and there are at this moment several hundred dozens of vene-— 
rable men sent packed on the tops of stage coaches, up to town, for the 
express purpose of changing their condition, and being cast into canons. 
