ditto; commiffary general of mufters; deputy ditto; com miffary general of stores; deputy ditto; inspector general of army accounts; phyfician general; furgeon ditto; apothecary ditto; military fuperintendant and infpector of hofpitals; two paymasters general; judge martial and advocate general; veterinary furgeon general. COMMANDER IN CHIEF'S OFFICE. This office is held at the Horfe Guards, Whitehall, for the purpose of receiving information and transacting business relative to the details of military affairs. In it are the commander in chief, a public fecretary, a private fecretary, with aids-de-camp, affiftants and clerks. WAR OFFICE. This office is alfo held at Whitehall Of the rank and duties of the secretary at war, fome account has been given in this volume, page 27; his deputy fecretary prepares the correspondence, and (under the orders or authority of the secretary at war) directs the whole business of the department, the accountant's branch excepted. The first clerk is refponfible for the execution of the detail of the business, and fuperintends the conduct of all the clerks, meffengers, tradefmen, &c. The principal clerk is employed in conducting the current bufinefs of the office, under the directions of the first clerk. There are other clerks, who prepare and are responsible for the eftimates and establishments of the army; they also tranfact the business relating to the payment of the ftaff, garrifons, &c. are employed in the current bufinefs of the office, and in particular attendance on the fecretary, and deputy fecretary at war, enter all commiffions of officers, prepare the army lifts, and make out the warrants for holding courts martial, receive and pay the charges for fubfiftence and efcort of deferters from British regiments, taken up in Ireland, and from Irish regiments taken up in Great Britain; and tranfact all the business relative to the penfions of the widows of officers. In the Accountant's department are perfons who fuperintend the examination and fettlement of all the accounts of the army, that come under the cognizance of the war-office. This branch is not confidered as fubject to the directions of the deputy fecretary, but only of the fecretary at war himfelf. The principal affifts in examining the army accounts, and in propofing the fums to be iffued from time to time on account, for various fervices not borne on the regimental eftablishment; fuch as recruiting, extra feed, innkeepers allowances, &c.; he also prepares the beating orders, and copies thereof; and two affiftants make out from the mufter rolls, abftract ftatements of the numbers, rank, and pay of the officers and men borne thereon; by a com a comparison with which, the correfponding charges in the regimental accounts are to be verified. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. This office is held in Crown Court, Westminster, but confidered a branch of the commander in chief's office. In it are the adjutant general, deputy adjutant general, quarter mafter general and his alliftants. PAYMASTER GENERAL, and the BARRACK DEPARTMENT, have already been described; the former at page 27 of this volume, the latter at page 290. ARMY AGENTS. The colonels of regiments appoint their own agents. These perfons give fecurity to government for the feveral fums of money intrufted to their care, and act between the paymafter general, fecretary at war, and the paymasters of regiments. Agents are fubject to the articles of war: fhould they withhold the pay of officers or foldiers for one month, on proof before a court martial, they are liable to be difmiffed from their fituation, and to forfeit 100/. for every fuch offence. In the cavalry, agents are allowed one warrant man per day (at 15.2d.) for each troop; and in the infantry one (at 6d.) for each company. They are alfo allowed 2d. in the pound on the full pay of regiments. According to the ftrength established by the war office, the allowances to agents are, for paying a regiment of cavalry, 433/. 13s. per annum, and for paying a regiment of infantry, 270l. 15. 6d. GARRISONS. Some forts and fortreffes are neceffarily maintained in various parts of the British dominions, for protection, and in thefe, garrifons are placed in the proper and genuine fenfe of the word; but in military colleges and hospitals, and in fome towns where garrifon duty is neceffarily performed, the government is in the hands of military officers, and they are alfo in general denominated garrifons. Thofe in the united kingdom, of both fpecies, are included in the following lift, fome being under the command of governors with fubordinate officers, others of town majors: Alderney, Belfast, Berwick, Blackness Caftle, Calfhot, Carlisle, Carrickfergus, Charlemont, Chelsea Hofpital, Chester, Cinque Ports, Cork, Dartmouth, Dunbarton, Dublin, Duncannon Fort, Edinburgh, Galway, Gravefend and Tilbury, Guernsey, Hull, Hurft Caftle, Jerfey, near Inverness, Kinfale, Landguard, Limerick, Londonderry and Culmore, Londonderry, St. Mawes, Royal Military College, Royal Military Afylum, Pendennis Castle, Plymouth, Portland Castle, Portsmouth, Rofs Caftle, Scarborough Caftle, Scilly Island, Sheerness, South Sea Caftle, Stirling Caftle, Tynmouth and Cliff Fort, Tower of London, Upnor Castle, the Isle of Wight, Fort William, Windfor, and North Yarmouth. Among the garrifons above mentioned, the Military College, Y 2 Chelfea Chelfea Hofpital, and the Military Afylum, will be noticed in a fubfequent page; and the Tower of London, in treating of the metropolis. MILITIA. Of the origin and ufe of this portion of the military force fome account has already been given; the following are the details refpecting it, drawn from the ftatute 42 Geo. III. c. 90, and fome fubfequent regulating acts; but it is to be obferved, they do not apply to the city of London, the Tower Hamlets, the Stannaries or the Cinque Ports. LORD LIEUTENANTS OF COUNTIES. Thefe officers are ap-. pointed by the king, and are intrufted by parliament with full power and authority to call together, arm, and array the militia, and cause them to be trained and exercifed once in every year. They may appoint twenty or more perfons duly qualified, and living within their refpective counties, ridings, and places, to be their deputy lieutenants; and may alfo appoint a proper number of colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, and other officers duly qualified, to train, difcipline, and command the militia. But the names of the deputy lieutenants, and perfons for whom commiflions are intended, are to be laid before the king, and if he expreffes difapprobation within fourteen days, the commiffions are not to iffue. And if the lieutenant is out of the kingdom or the fituation vacant, the king may empower three deputy lieutenants to nominate officers, who, when appointed, rank with the officers of the regular forces as youngest of their rank. QUALIFICATIONS. Deputy Lieutenant must have 200l. a year in land, freehold, copyhold, or customary, or in estates for long terms of years determinable on one or more life or lives, held in his own right, or in right of his wife; or he must be heir apparent to some perfon poffeffed in like manner of 400l. a year. Colonel, 1000l. a year, or heir apparent to 2000l. Lieutenantcolonel, 600l. a year, or heir apparent to 1200l. Major, 400l. or heir apparent to 800l. Captain, 2001. or heir apparent to 400/. or younger fon of a perfon who is, or at the time of his death was, poffeffed of 600l. a year. Lieutenant, a fimilar eftate of 50l. per annum, or 1000l. in perfonal eftate, or in real and perfonal together 2000/. or fon of a perfon who is, or who died poffeffed of an estate of 100l. per year, or of perfonal property in value 2000l. or real and perfonal together 3000l. Enfign, 20. a year, or in perfonal eftate 500/. or in real and perfonal together, 1000l. or fon of a perfon who has, or had, 50l. a year, 1000l. in perfonal, or in real and personal together 1500/. one moiety of the qualifications to be fituate within the county or place for which the commiflion is granted reverfions. to be estimated at one third of their actual produce; that is, an eftate of 300l. a year in reverfion, to be efteemed equal to one in poffeffion of 100l. and fo in proportion; and beneficial leafe holds holds where the original term exceeded twenty years, to be confidered as full qualifications to the extent of their annual value. In the counties of Cumberland, Huntingdon, Monmouth, Westmoreland, and Rutland, and in every county and place in Wales, the estates requifite for the qualification of the deputy lieutenants and officers are fmaller. For a deputy lieutenant 150l. a year, or heir apparent to 300l. Colonel, 6ool. or heir apparent to 1200l. Lieutenant-colonel or major commandant, 400l. or heir apparent to 800l. Major, 200l. or heir apparent, 400l. Captain, 150l. or fon of a perfon who has or had at his death 300l. Lieutenant, 30l. a year, or perfonal eftate 600l. or or real and perfonal together 1200l. or fon of a person who is, or died, worth 60l. a year, or with a perfonal eftate of 1200l. or real and perfonal 2400l. Enfign, 20l. a year, or perfonal eftate in value 300l. or real and perfonal together 600l.; or son of a person who is, or died, worth 30l. a year, or in perfonal eftate 600l. or real and perfonal mixed 1200/ In the Ile of Ely the qualifications are nearly fimilar, but in fome refpects rather lower, a Captain being required to poffefs no greater eftate than 100l. a year, or to be heir apparent to double that fum, or younger fon of one a proprietor of 300l. per annum. In the lieutenant and enfign there is no difference from thofe in the last mentioned counties, In cities or towns which are counties within themselves, and have been used to raise and train a separate militia within their liberties; the lieutenant of every fuch city or town, or where there is none appointed, the chief magiftrate nominates the deputy lieutenants and officers of militia, whofe number and rank must be proportionable to the number of militia-men which fuch city or town is to raife as their quota; and all powers and · provifions made with refpect to counties at large take place in them. The qualification for a deputy lieutenant is 150l. a year as aforefaid, or a perfonal estate alone, or real and perfonal eftate together, to the amount or value of 3000l. Field officer, 300l.; or perfonal eftate alone, or real and perfonal together, to the value of 5000l. Captain, 150l. a year; or perfonal eftate alone, or real and perfonal together, to the value of 2500l. Lieutenant, 30l. a year, or perfonal eftate of 7501. Enfign 20l. a year, or perfonal eftate of 400l. One half of the real eftates (except thofe for lieutenants and enfigus) must be within fuch city or town, or within the county to which it is united. No perfon can be admitted a deputy lieutenant, or to any rank in a regiment of militia higher than that of lieutenant, until he delivers to the clerk of the peace or his deputy, a fpecific description in writing, figned by himself, of his qualifica X 3 tion; tion; ftating the parifh in which it is fituate; of which the clerk of the peace tranfmits to the lord lieutenant a copy; and no commiffion for a higher rank than that of lieutenant is valid, unless it be declared in it that fuch officer has delivered in his qualification as directed. The clerk of the peace is alfo to enter the qualifications on a roll, to publifh the commiffions granted, and in whose room, in the London Gazette, and, every January, tranfmit to the fecretary of ftate a complete account of qualifications left with him, to be laid before parliament; and the officers muft, within fix months at fome general or quarter feffion, or in one of the courts of record at Westminster, take the oaths appointed by law. Every deputy lieutenant and officer down to major, acting without having delivered in his qualification, to forfeit 2001. and every captain 100l. half to the informer, and the proof of qualification to reft on the party fued; but the neceffity of delivering in a qualification does not reft on peers or their heirs apparent, whether they be lords lieutenant, or commiflioned officers. NUMBER. The number of private men to be raifed (exclufive of the places excepted) is as follows: For the county of Bedford Berks Bucks 317 561 599 Cambridge 481 Chefter, with the city and county of the city of Chefter 885 Cornwall 647 Cumberland 615 Derby 939 Devon, with the city and county of the city of Exeter 1512 Poole 411 Durham 492 Effex 1244 Gloucester, with the city and county of Gloucefter, and the city and county of Bristol Kent, with the city and county of the city of Canter bury 1296 Lancaster 2439 Leicester Lincoln, with the city and county of the city of Lincoln Monmouth Norfolk, with the city and county of the city of Norwich 1209 Northampton |