7IO Account of Regulations 



Regimental quartermasters 12 



Justices {Auditors) 12 



Regimental adjutants 15 



Battalion adjutants 61 



Regimental surgeons 17 



Battalion surgeons 57 



Ensigns 83 



In all 748 



Such a promotion is certainly very extraordinary, 

 perhaps entirely unheard of. 



Of the twenty-four senior majors and twenty junior 

 majors who were in the army at the beginning of Sep- 

 tember, 1788, and who had only captains' commissions, 

 five are already colonels actually in command, with full 

 pay; and all the rest, with four exceptions only, are 

 already actually commissioned as lieutenant-colonels, 

 and of these four three will presently in their turn step 

 into lieutenant-colonels' positions which are now stand- 

 ing vacant. In this promotion, however, as has been 

 remarked above, not the slightest wrong or injustice 

 has been done to a single ofHcer. Every officer, from 

 second lieutenant to captain, and from major to general, 

 has been advanced in his turn according to seniority. 



The officers in the Electoral army certainly have 

 reason to be satisfied with the new system, especially 

 on account of the extraordinary promotions which they 

 have had singe its introduction, and, more especially 

 still, because these promotions have not been at all 

 caused by a remarkable degree of mortality, but are 

 rather to be ascribed to the nature of the new system 

 itself, and to the great number of officers advanced 

 in years and unfit for service who have been super- 

 annuated, or who have retired from the service. 



In addition to this, both commissioned and non- 

 commissioned officers, and the common soldiers as 



