XXX INTRODUCTION. 
While the means of defence were thus iii- 
creafed. Government endeavoured alfo to aug- 
ment the number of troops. With this view, 
every perfon without diftindion that offered 
Jiimfeif was enlifted : be his defeds what 
they might, not an individual was refufed. 
I do not precifely know what fuch foldiers 
would have done In cafe of an attack ; but I 
fufpe<!l they would have oppofed no very for- 
midable face to the enemy. 
Juft the fame, in my opinion, would it 
have been with a regiment of Hottentots that 
was formed. Never did plan afford fo much 
fcope for ridicule as this ; and to be convinced 
how juft was the ridicule, a fight only of 
thefe grotefque troops at their exercife was 
fufEcient. One day as I was croffing the 
parade where they were affembled, and where 
one of the company's fervants was teaching 
Jhisni. what he called military evolutions, I 
enjoyed 
