"Some of the sucking Colonels of the Guards have expressed their dislike of the short skirts. They say they feel as if they were going to be flogged."--(_Times, Nov. 21, 1797._) Kelsey's was a famous fruiterer's, &c., in St. James's Street, and we are here presented with one of the boy officers, whose legs cannot reach the ground, and who has not yet lost his childish predilection for "Sugar Plums." As a foil to him is given Colonel Burch, of the Royal Household Troops--who is actively engaged in demolishing Ice Creams. [Illustration: Heroes Recruiting at Kelsey's 1797.] The following paragraph tells a sad tale:-- "The late order of the Cabinet for furnishing all His Majesty's troops with bread, in the same manner as if in camp, namely, a loaf of six pounds weight for five-pence, will, we doubt not, have the desired effect in preventing a continuance of those outrages, to which the military, in many parts of the kingdom, have been compelled, by absolute want."--(_Times, April 27, 1795._) But this order was modified, as we see. "A new regulation has been made throughout the whole Army, that instead of the additional allowance of Bread-Money, each Soldier is to receive 8d. per day clear."--(_Times, Oct. 2, 1795._) The fate of a prisoner of War is always hard, and, as a rule, they are not too luxuriously treated. When first we had large quantities of French prisoners over here, they were nearly starved, but, afterwards, their lot was much ameliorated. Probably they were better treated than our people who were imprisoned in France, for, if the following letter can be believed, they certainly were neither luxuriously housed, nor fed. "The following is an Extract of a letter from an Officer of the 'Castor' Frigate, captured some time since, by the French, dated _Quimper_ near Brest, Feb. 27, 1795:--