Sm ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



two to thi-ee; being ^45,094^ in 

 \79'2, and 331,974^. in 1817, for 

 8,000 infantry. 



A oomparisoa is also given of 

 the expense of regimenting a force 

 of 8,000 infantry into battalions 

 of 400 nvnk and tile each (the es- 

 tablishment existing in 1792), an<l 

 into battalions of 800 rank and 

 file each ] by which judicious ar- 

 rangement an annual saving of 

 74.3'-l6l. as well as a more efficient 

 staif, by the present ■ mode of 

 forming this. amount of force on 

 the same number, is secured to 

 the public. 



The pay of the army, with re- 

 gard to rank and file, has been 

 exactly doubled since 179*2, with 

 additional allowances after seven 

 yeais of service; but the augmen- 

 tation of pay and daily allowance 

 lias been made upon a much lower 

 scale to the officers ; and the colo- 

 nel stands upon the same footing 

 as in 179?- 



Jn the cavalry no addition has 

 been made to the pay of any rank 

 superior to that of lieutenant, 

 which has been increased from 

 Hs. 5(/. to 9s per day ; the dragoon 

 soldieis, who.se daily pay was 8(/. 

 in i79'2, now receive Is. 3fl. with 

 the iuldition of Id. after ten 

 years, and 2d. after seventeen years 

 of service. 



'J'he rate of agency remains pre- 

 cisely the tame as in 1793 for 

 corps of infantry; for corps of 

 cavalry, the rate of agency appears 

 to have been reduced one-fourth, 

 from the 2.5th of July, 1809. it 

 is remarkable, that no augmenta- 

 tion has ever been made to the 

 allowances for clothing and ap- 

 pointnjents of either cavalry or 

 infantrv. The rates of off- reckon- 



ings were first fixed in the reign 

 of Queen Anne, and they remain 

 the same at the present day ; but, 

 in consequence of the great in- 

 creiisc in the price of leather 

 during the early part of the late 

 war, an allowance of 1,5 per cent, 

 upon the off-reckonings was grant- 

 ed to colonels of cavalry regiments 

 from Julj, 1799, after deducting 

 therefrom 1/. 16s. per annum for 

 eveiy man wanting to complete 

 the full establishment. This al- 

 lowance has been issued every two 

 years, upon a memorial from the 

 respective colonels, showing that 

 no diminution had taken place in 

 the price of appointments, with 

 the exci'ption of two years, from 

 the 25th day of December, 1803, 

 to the 24th day of December, 

 1805, for wliich the colonels did 

 not claim it. 



The difference which appears in 

 the present and in former esti- 

 mates, between the expenses of 

 clothing some regiments of equal 

 numbers, is occasioned by some of 

 them being \ipon the British and 

 some upon the Irish establish- 

 ment, which, for a cavalry regi- 

 ment of 46 1 rank and file, amounts, 

 upon tlie British establishment, to 

 2,845/., and upon the Irish (in 

 Irish currency) to 3,500/., or 

 3,230/. British. This is stated to 

 be a very old regulation, in which 

 no alteration has been made of 

 late ycArs. 



[Here follows the comparison al- 

 luded to; by which it appears that 

 in 1816 the total number^ in the 

 abstract, of the estimates, omitting 

 the coips ordered for reduction in, 

 1816, :ind the corps for service in 

 India and in France, but includ- 

 ing 21^401 officers and men in, 



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