introduced into the Electoral Army. 719 



eye on all smugglers and defrauders of the customs, to 

 arrest them without further question on encountering 

 them, and to deliver them over to the civil authorities. 



The very important service which the troops have 

 rendered in this way is shown by the great number of 

 arrested persons which they have, since their establish- 

 ment, handed over to the civil authorities. For the 

 three years and some odd months during which the 

 troops have been cantoned in the country, the number 

 of persons arrested amounts to nearly 10,000. The 

 very great relief which the land has thus experienced is 

 easier to imagine than to describe. 



Among other advantages which have resulted from 

 this cantonment of the troops is this, — that by the 

 reports which the cavalry oflficers, from time to time, 

 and especially on occasion of any extraordinary occur- 

 rence, are required to make to the generals in command 

 of the troops, your Electoral Highness is always fur- 

 nished with detailed information of every thing that 

 takes place in the land. Moreover, these troops afford 

 means, which are always at hand, to convey the com- 

 mands of your Electoral Highness throughout the 

 entire country in the most rapid and safest manner, 

 and entirely without extra expense. The very large 

 sums which it was formerly necessary to pay to couriers, 

 especially when foreign troops were passing through 

 the country, and on such other occasions when numer- 

 ous orders had to be sent into the country as quickly 

 as possible, — these sums show of how great an advan- 

 tage in this respect is the cantonment of the troops, by 

 means of which these expenses are done away with. 



Various other advantages have resulted from this 

 distribution of the cavalry throughout the country : as, 



