While it is the wisdom, it is also the interest of every Country to frame employ for those who have served it faithfully in war. A distinction between the industrious and the profligate would soon be marked by Society, and the worthless wanderer roaming about unpitied, would be compelled to contribute to his own support, and thus promote the general good. Every circumstance after the peace tended to shew that it was only a temporary expedient on the part of France. Alternately they continued to inflame and negociate during nearly the whole interval of public repose, and by their extensive Naval preparations, which were not confined to their own Country, they obviously evinced the intention of renewing hostilities when they felt themselves in sufficient power. Upwards of six years provocation and remonstrance had elapsed, when repeated insults aroused the Nation. Early in 1755 our armaments began, at which time a levy of 50 Companies of Marines, was ordered, and the following appointments of Officers to them appeared in the Gazette of the 5th of April: Lieutenant Colonels. James Patterson, Thomas Drury, Charles Gordon, Majors. Richard Bendyshe, Charles Leighton, James Burleigh. Captains. Hector Boisrond, Gabriel Sediere, John M'Kenzie, Charles Repington, Alexander Cumming, Sir Robert Abercrombie, Alexander Douglass, Edward Rycaut, John Wright, Thomas Dawes, John Tufton Mason, Thomas Sheldon, Thomas Moore, John Gordon, Richard Baker, James Dundas, George Maxwell, James Robertson. First Lieutenants. Daniel Campbell, Dudley Crofts, George Langley, James Hill, Alexander Cathcart, Francis Hay, Donald M'Donald, John Shuttie, Edward Howarth, Robert Duglass, John Phillips, John Brown, Colin Campbell, Robert Ewer, Archibald Campbell, George Ord, Laucelor Willan, William Fraizer, Captains. John Campbell, Claud Hamilton, John Bell, John Dennis, Thomas Dalton, Thomas Whitwick, James Hamilton, Robert Barker, John Groeme, John Beaghan, Samuel Prosser, Patrick M'Donal, Alexander Irons, Charles Webb, William Stacy, Richard Brough, Henry Smith, John Johnston, Leathes Johnston, Christopher Gauntlett, Tooker Collins, Walter Canuthers, John Vere, William Picton, Richard Shuckburgh, Richard Hawkins, First Lieutenants. James Short, George Bossuque, James Mercer, John Frazer, W. Ayton Douglas, Dennis Bond, Thomas Backhouse, Gerard Dennet, Thomas Troy, Edward Shyffin, George Gulston, Richard Dennison, William Thompson, John Elliot, John Pitcairne, James Perkins, William Dennis, Ralph Teasdale, Pierce Deut, Robert Shirley, Daniel Campbell, John Blinkhan, William Lutman, Thomas Wright, William Rowley, Thomas Stamper, Captains. George Maddison, Charles Grey, Robert Burdet, John Yeo, Robert Packhurst, Alexander Leslie, First Lieutenants.