The stipend of a private in the Life Guards was a provision for the younger son of a gentleman.

Even the Foot Guards were paid about as high as manufacturers in a prosperous season, and were therefore in a situation which the great body of the labouring population might regard with envy.

The return of the garrison of Tangier and the raising of the new regiments had made a great change.

There were now in England many thousands of soldiers, each of whom received only eightpence a day.

The dread of dismission was not sufficient to keep them to their duty: and corporal punishment their officers could not legally inflict.