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THE REMOUNTING OF CAVALRY. 
Hallen, of the 6th Dragoons, and the late Mr. Heyward, of the 
Carabineers, have certainly distinguished themselves. 
I propose that re-mount horses be bought by this Board for all 
regiments in England, a similar one being nominated in Ireland. 
York barracks, generally holding a troop or squadron, can accom- 
modate this depot without inconvenience, and, being central for the 
counties where troop-horses are bred, is an additional advantage. 
For Ireland, Newbridge would be found all-sufficient. 
That advertisements should be issued one month previously to 
casting horses by regiments in all the counties where horses are 
bred for troopers ; to the effect that on a certain day, at a certain 
place, this Board will attend to buy troopers (with the conditions), 
nothing under four and over five will be taken. This to be done in 
the beginning of spring and autumn. 
To provide for the care of these re-mounts, I propose that men 
who may have served twenty years be detached from their regi- 
ments to this depot, to the number of about ten per regiment, and 
there complete their service of twenty-four years : thus these re- 
mounts will, in the course of three months, have gone through the 
process of stabling, with a fair proportion of training, such as singe- 
ing, bucking, and snaffling, to fit them for their respective regi- 
ments, where they will be found sufficiently advanced for imme- 
diate work, with all the tendency to completion. Here I will 
remark, that as many regiments can scarcely be considered more 
than mere nurseries for recruits and re-mount horses, the expendi- 
ture for conducting the nurseries for young horses can be diminished 
a few hundreds by concentrating them in this depot, the current 
expenses of which will be covered by the saving of forage, & c., 
which will take place between the selling of cast horses and the 
purchasing of re-mounts to replace them. Again, when we con- 
sider that the operation of the present system is occasionally this 
enormous number of young horses, and perhaps recruits, it is 
impossible but that many regiments must have long intervals of 
inefficiency. 
Who has not seen strings of young horses led by dragoons on 
foot through the country on a long march ? Who does not know 
how prejudicial to young horses are such marches, producing the 
evil of retarding them perhaps for months? and who of the initiated 
could not extend the number of these evils, were it needful ? 
I come now to another important proposed alteration from the pre- 
sent, in the price to be given for four years old. At present, £26.. 5s. 
is the fixed sum : if this sum was given in full, and the judgment 
of the buyer was good, we should now have a ten pound better 
animal ; but the exorbitant profit of the dealer leaves us as we are. 
I know full well all the remarks which will be evoked by what 
