[Pppehrserver-legal-eu] Ublic regeneration--they were torches,

Thu Dec 24 08:33:45 CET 2009

Ing Isaac! here we have his military arithmetic:--"Upon the 1st of
January in this year, their army numbered 88,000 rank and file. They had
abroad, exclusive of India, 44,589. So that more than one half of that
army was stationed in their colonies; and as it was stated by the noble
lord the member for Tiverton in his evidence, for every 10,000 of these
soldiers that they had in the colonies, 5000 were wanted in England for
the purpose of exchange and recruiting. So that not only one-half, but
actually three-fourths of the army were devoted to the colonies. The
army estimates this year amounted to L.6,225,000, the portion of which
sum for the colonies amounted to L.4,500,000." Now, as the garrison of
Gibraltar alone consists of about 4000 men, to which add 2000 as the
proportion for the reserve in England for recruiting and exchanges, it
follows that of the 44,500 men on colonial duty, to which add the
reserve in England, 22,250, one-eleventh are stationed in and wanted for
Gibraltar alone, the charge of which to be rateably deducted from the
whole sum of L.4,500,000, falsely set down as incurred for the colonies,
would be about L.410,000. If to this sum be added L.275,000 for "new
works in Gibraltar," as stated by Mr Cobden himself from the esti
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