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-fcurreirt year. The inferior economy of the corps is, not 

 only invelUgatcd to the bottom, but the difciphne of the 

 men is likewife examined. For a more particular explana- 

 tion of the latter, A-e Review. 



Inspection, Reglmtntal, is made once a month by the 

 commanding officer. The clothing, tlie nccelTaries, arms, 

 and accoutrements belonging to the different companies are 

 examined by the lieutenant-colonel or major of the corps. 

 Specific returns are made by tlie officers commanding: troops 

 or companies, by whom the debts and credits of the men, 

 which have been made up and accoimted for on the 24th day 

 in each month, in infantry regiments, and on the 24th day 

 in each fecond n\onth in cavalry corps, are exhibited for ex- 

 amination at head quarters. This forms the ground-work 

 or bafis of the general infpeftion, at which the troop or com- 

 pany book (hould always be produced. 



Inspectiox, Private, of Companies, is the firft ftep towards 

 the other two, and ought to be made every Monday morn- 

 ing, by each officer commanding a troop or company, or by 

 his lubaltern. 



Inspection" of Nece^iries is an examination of the different 

 articles which every foldier is dirctted to have in good repair. 

 The regular or ellabhHied proportion of neceflaries that 

 eich foldier of cavalry and infantry is to be in pofleffion of 

 on the 24th day of each month, to entitle him to receive the 

 balance that m.ay be then due to him, confifts of the fol- 

 lowing articles. 



Cavalry. — 3 fhirts, 2 pair of flioes, 3 pair of ftockings, 

 I pair of gaiters, t forage cap, 1 faddle-bag, i pair of can- 

 vas, or woollen over-hofe, I canvas, or woollen frock or 

 jacket, I ftock, I black-ball, 2 bruihes, i curry-comb and 

 brufh, 1 mane comb and fpunge, and 1 horfe-picker. 



Infantry. — T, ffiirts, 2 pair of (hoes, 2 pair of ftockings, 

 or 2 pair of focks, i pair of long gaiters, i ibrage cap, I 

 pack, I ftock, I black-ball, and 2 brullics. 



Inspection, or Examination, Trial by. See Examina- 

 tion. 



INSPECT0R-Gra«-i7/ of Cavalry, a general officer, 

 whofe particular duty is to infpect all cavalry regiments, to 

 report the ftate of the horfes, and to receive fpecitic accounts 

 from the diffi;rent corps of their actual Hate ; he communi- 

 cates with tlie commander-in-chief, and whenever a cavalry 

 re/iment is ordered to be diihanded, it muft be looked at by 

 the infpetlor-general before it is finally broken. 



INSPECTOU-Gffa'rfl/ of the Recruiting Service, an officer of 

 rank, through whom the field officers of dirtricts, and colonels 

 of regiments (when they perfonally manage the recruiting 

 fervice of their own corps) tranfmit their feveral returns to 

 the adjutant-general's olnce. All recruiting parties which 

 are feet to the great manufafturing towns in England and 

 Wales, as alfo to Scotland and Ireland, muft be previoully 

 authorized fo to do by the infpector-gcneral. 



Two field officers have been lately appointed as permanent 

 infpeftors of clothing. Thefe iiifpedtors, or the infpeclors for 

 the time being, are direfted to view and compare with the 

 fealed patterns, the clothing of the feveral regiments of cavalry 

 and infantry, as foon as the fame fhall have been prepared by 

 the refpeclive clothiers ; and if the faid clothing appear to be 

 conformable to tlie fealed patterns, they are authoiizedto grant 

 two certificates of their view and approval thereof; one of 

 which certificates is to be delivered to the clothier, to be 

 lent with the clothing to the head quarters of the corps, and 

 the other to be lodged with the general clothing board, as the 

 neceffary voucher for.paffing the alfignment of the allowance 

 for the faid clothing. 



All clothing mull be riewed, and certificates be figncdby 

 Vox., XIX. 



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holh infpeAors, except in cafes where the abfence of one of 

 them (hall be unavoidable ; in all which cafes the caufe of fuch 

 abfence is to be ftated by the other infpettor, in his certifi. 

 cate of the view of the clothing. 



Infpedors of clothing are to follow allinftruftions which 

 may be tranfmitted to them from the commander-in-chief, 

 the ffcretary at war, or the clothing board. 



In'spectok of Hofpitah, the next on the ftaff to the furgcon 

 gen,:al. 



Inspector, a perfon to whom the care and conduft 

 of any work is committed. 



Inspectors, in the Roman La'w, were fuch pcrfons as 

 examined the quality and value of lands and effedfs, in order 

 to the adjufting or proportioning taxes and impofitions to 

 every man's eilate. 



The Jews alfo have an officer, in their fynagogue, whoai 

 they call ir.fpeaor, |f pi, hha%en. His bufineff conlifts prin- 

 cipally in infpedting, or overlooking the prayers and Icffons, 

 in preparing and fhewir.g them to the reader, and in ftand- 

 ing by him to fee he reads right ; and, if he makes miflakes, 

 he is to correft him. 



INSPICIENDO Ventre. See Ventre. 



INSPIRATION, in Phyfjihgy, the aft of drawing the 

 atmofpheric air into the lungs. See LuNG, 



Inspiration, among Divines, &c. implies the convey- 

 ing of certain extraordinary and fupernatuial notices, or 

 motions, into the foul : or, it denotes any fupernatural 

 influence of God upon the mind of a rational creature, 

 whereby he is formed to any degree of intellctftual improve- 

 ments, to which he coald not, or would not, in fa<£t, have 

 attained in his prefent circumftances, in a natural way. 



If a man were inftantaneoufly enabled to fpeak a language 

 which he had never learned, how poffible foever it might 

 have been for liim to have obtained an equal readinefs in it 

 by degrees, few would fcruple to fay, tliat he owed his ac 

 quaintance with it to dr\ine infpiration. Or, if he gave a 

 true and exact account of what was doing at a diftance, if 

 he publiflied a particular relation of what he neither faw 

 nor heard, a^ fome of the prophets did, all the world would 

 own (if the affair were too complex, and the account too 

 circumftantial to be the refult of a lucky guefs), that he 

 mud be infpired with the knowledge of it ; though another 

 account, equally exaft, given by a perfon on the fpot, 

 would be afcribed to no infpiration at all. 



Thus the prophets are faid to have fpoken by divine in- 

 fpiration. 



Some authors reduce the infpiration of the facred writers 

 to a particular care of Providence, which prevented any 

 thing they had faid from failing, or coming to nought ; 

 maintaining, that they never were really iufpired, either with 

 knowledge, or exprcffion. 



According to M. Simon, infpiration is no more than a 

 direftion of the Ho'y Spirit, which never permitted the 

 facred writers to be miftaken. 



It is a common opinion, that the infpiration of tlie Holy 

 Spirit regards only the matter, not the ftyle, or words ; and 

 this feems to fall in with M. Simon's doftrine of direction. 



Theological writers have enumerated feveral kinds of in- 

 fpiration : fnch as an infpiration o{ fvperintenJency, in wliicli 

 God does fo influence and dircft the mind of any p'crfon, as to 

 keep him more fecure from error in fome various and complex 

 difcourfe, than lie would have been merely b)- the ufc of liis 

 natural faculties ; plenai-y fupennientlent infpiration, which ex- 

 cludes any mixture of error at all from the performance fo 

 fuperintended ; infpiration of elevation, wliere the facul- 

 ties aft in a regular, and, as it feema, in a common manner, 

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