As yet no such Act had been passed except in time of war; and the temper of the Parliament and of the nation was such that the ministers did not venture to ask, in time of peace, for a renewal of powers unknown to the constitution.

For the present, therefore, the soldier was again, as in the times which preceded the Revolution, subject to exactly the same law which governed the citizen.
It was only in matters relating to the army that the government found the Commons unmanageable.

Liberal provision was made for the navy.

The number of seamen was fixed at ten thousand, a great force, according to the notions of that age, for a time of peace.

The funds assigned some years before for the support of the civil list had fallen short of the estimate.