. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. itia seem to have been easily Post, December 3, 1800: MiLlTIA young Gentleman of respectability can be introducedto an Ensigncy in the Militia, direct, &c. Times, July 2,1803 : An Adjutancy of English Militia to be sold, & could be bought, but at fluctuating prices,according to the chance of active service being first called out in 1803, one could be got for .^10;but the Times, September 15, 1803, in its Brighton news,says : The price of substitutes now is as high
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. itia seem to have been easily Post, December 3, 1800: MiLlTIA young Gentleman of respectability can be introducedto an Ensigncy in the Militia, direct, &c. Times, July 2,1803 : An Adjutancy of English Militia to be sold, & could be bought, but at fluctuating prices,according to the chance of active service being first called out in 1803, one could be got for .^10;but the Times, September 15, 1803, in its Brighton news,says : The price of substitutes now is as high as fortyguineas, and this tempting boon, added to the stimulus ofpatriotism, has changed the occupation of many a Sussexswain. The Annnal Register, October 15, 1803, says:* Sixty pounds was last week paid at Plymouth for a sub-stitute for the Militia. One man went, on condition ofreceiving is. per day during the war, and another soldhimself for 7s. 3d. per lb. The Volunteer movement has been glanced at whentreating of the threatened Invasion of 1803. There had,.
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