_Regiments._ _Number of effective Men._ _Wanting to complete._ Churchill's 878 122 Frazer's 864 136 Lowther's 848 152 Byng's 797 203 Cochran's 945 55 Cotterell's 843 157 Cornwall's 845 155 Duncombe's 784 216 Powlett's 916 84 Jeffrey's 882 11 ----- ----- 8,602 1,398 ===== ===== Besides 1,550 Commissioned and Non-commissioned Officers. At this time, and indeed since their institution in 1739, Commissions were purchased and sold in the Regiments of Marines, although they always bore an inferior value to these in Old Corps. A perquisite frequently arose to the Colonels from the disposal of Second Lieutenancies, when his Majesty was pleased to accept of their recommendation. Such usually produced from £250 to £280, while Ensigncies in the Line sometimes yielded £400. Nothing worthy of further notice occurred within the transactions of this year. CHAP. XV. Early in 1746, a Committee was appointed to investigate the state and grievances of the Land Forces and Marines. A considerable increase of expence had accrued in the maintenance of both, which was one of the objects of this inquiry. Such as affected the Marine Regiments I have already detailed, and assigned the causes of the additional charges in this establishment since the peace of Utrecht. The same are applicable to the Army at large, in the allowance which was made to Commission-Officers in lieu of servants, in 1713, in a similar indulgence granted to the Quartermasters in marching Regiments in 1718, and the annuities to Officers Widows, to Colonels for clothing lost by deserters, to Captains for recruiting, and to the Agents of Corps, which were all the newly-adopted establishments of the latter year. These additional grants, while they meliorated the situation of the Officer, cost the Nation but little. It appears, in the course of this inquiry, that the perquisites of a Colonel, in clothing a Marine Regiment, exceeded those of the Foot, from the comparative superiority in their numbers, and the articles being of an inferior quality. The grievances which had existed, and were _peculiar_ to those Regiments, appeared conspicuous in the course of this public research.