Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . emptied more than once to supplythe want of soldiers, recruits be-came so hard to obtain that in 1807each man cost in bounty and levymoney nearly £40. In that yeara system of limited engagement(short service) was introduced;men undertook to serve from sevento twelve years with the colours,with power to renew their engage-ment from time to time, and thusultimately to earn a pension for theirold age. The immed
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . emptied more than once to supplythe want of soldiers, recruits be-came so hard to obtain that in 1807each man cost in bounty and levymoney nearly £40. In that yeara system of limited engagement(short service) was introduced;men undertook to serve from sevento twelve years with the colours,with power to renew their engage-ment from time to time, and thusultimately to earn a pension for theirold age. The immediate effect of thisconcession to ]3ublic opinion was toproduce so many more recruits forthe regular army that their market price fell from £40 to £30. Until the middle of the last century the ranks of the armywere almost exclusively filled by Englishmen and Lowland the seven years war Clhatham threw open the career ofarms to the Highlanders, Avho eagerly embraced it; but it wasnot until 1800 that Irishmen were admitted into the armywithout forfeiting their creed or nationality. Then they ^ Major-Gen. Sir W. F. Butler, Tleci for the Peasant [in his Far Out ].p. 21) A KOYAL IRISU FISTLIEU, ]7,i3. (/. Caniwn, Historical Recordsof the S7th Feffiment.)
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