It was to make the present half pay for seven years, whole pay for the same period.

He also recommended that depreciation on the pay received, should be made up to the officers who should be reduced.
No objection occurred to the measure now recommended, but the expense it would occasion.

In his judgment, whatever would give consistency to the military establishment, would be ultimately favourable to economy.
It was not easy to be conceived, except by those who had witnessed it, what an additional waste and increased consumption of every thing, and consequently what an increase of expense, resulted from laxness of discipline in an army; and where officers thought they did a favour by holding their commissions, and the men were continually fluctuating, to maintain discipline was impossible.

Nothing could be more obvious to him than that a sound military establishment and real economy were the same.

That the purposes of war would be greatly promoted by it was too clear to admit of argument.