Ginkell kept excellent order among the auxiliaries from Holland, who were under his more immediate command.

But his authority over the English and the Danes was less entire; and unfortunately their pay was, during part of the winter, in arrear.

They indemnified themselves by excesses and exactions for the want of that which was their due; and it was hardly possible to punish men with severity for not choosing to starve with arms in their hands.

At length in the spring large supplies of money and stores arrived; arrears were paid up; rations were plentiful; and a more rigid discipline was enforced.

But too many traces of the bad habits which the soldiers had contracted were discernible till the close of the war.