National Oeconomy Recommended, as the Only Means of Retrieving Our Trade and Securing Our Liberties; Occasioned by the Perusal of the Late Report of a (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1746. Excerpt: ... 1-TJ J "the Sum of 654/. 16 s. charged for Interest on the se"veral Sums disbursed for Cloathing; to General Corng"wall, in the said three Years, the Sum of 4955 /. 15 s o d. exclusive of the Sum of 549 /. 41. charged for Interest as before; to Colonel Frazer, in the said two "Years, to the Sum of 2897/. its. $d. besides the "Sum of 288 /. 13 s. charged for Interest, as aforesaid; "and to Brigadier Bing in the said Year 1745, to the "Sum of 1556/. 8 s. id. besides the Sum of 134. 11 s. charged for Interest." If the Interest Money be taken into this Account, as it ought, in as much as the Colonels have what reasonable length of Time they please from the Contractors for Cloathing, we shall find that these Commanders, who will appear by and by to be wholly useless in the Marines especially, do gain annually by cloathing their respective Regiments above seventeen hundred Pounds; a monstrous Sum to be spun out of the Entrails of the common Men, from whom it is stopt. But this is not one half of the Pay and Emoluments of a Colonel of Marines, who nevertheless, from the very Nature of the Service, can be of no Manner of Use, as fucb, to the Nation, as manisestly appears by the Report. (A) " Lieutenant Colonel Waljb, of Brigadier Pawlett's Regiment of Marines, being examined, said, that the "greatest Detachments, which at any Time go in one Ship, consist of a Captain, three Subalterns and one hundred Men; but that, sometimes, a much less Num"ber is sent; and that Brigadier Pawlett, . and himself "(the Witness) presented a Memorial to the Admiralty, desiring they might command their Men at Sea; but "that the Admiralty refused tn comply with their Request, "alledging that three Field-Officers were scarcely suffi "cient to take care of the Men ashore." One woul...