720 Account of Regulations 



for example, the strict oversight which the officers can 

 easily have, and which they are most expressly required 

 to have, over the soldiers absent on furlough, both from 

 the infantry and from the cavalry ; also the important 

 service which these officers can render during the pas- 

 sage of foreign troops, in providing the necessary forage, 

 in preserving peace and order, and in preventing all 

 intercourse between the men on furlough and the for- 

 eign troops, by which means the former might be led 

 to desert; also the many opportunities which are thus 

 afforded to the officers of the cavalry to render assist- 

 ance to the civil authorities, to live in friendly inter- 

 course with them, and to arouse in them, as well as in 

 the citizens in general, a favourable opinion of the mili- 

 tary, which might contribute very much to elevate the 

 military service, and to abolish the hatred and unfriendly 

 feeling of the civil to the military service, a feeling 

 of long standing in Bavaria, and very disadvantageous 

 to the State. In short, under the present system the 

 cavalry can now be just as useful both to the military 

 and to the civil service as it was formerly useless and 

 injurious, when, in times of peace, it was shut up in 

 the towns without useful occupation ; and I am so con- 

 vinced of the great advantages which have been derived 

 from these regulations, and of those that will be derived 

 therefrom hereafter when the old prejudices are rooted 

 out, and when the countless hindrances which stood in 

 the way of the introduction of this system have been 

 removed, that, if I had done nothing else in the last 

 four years except to bring about its introduction, I 

 should think that my time and trouble had been well 

 and usefully expended. 



With regard to the condition of the finances of the 



