The Army was fighting our battles _abroad_, so that for the purposes of this book, we are left only to deal with the Militia and Volunteers. The Militia were in a state of almost permanent embodiment, except during the lull about 1802. March, 1803, saw them once more under arms; the Yeomanry had not been disembodied. Commissions in the Militia seem to have been easily procurable. _Morning Post_, December 3, 1800: “MILITIA ENSIGNCY. A young Gentleman of respectability can be introduced to an Ensigncy in the Militia, direct,” &c. _Times_, July 2, 1803: “An Adjutancy of English Militia to be sold,” &c. Substitutes could be bought, but at fluctuating prices, according to the chance of active service being required. When first called out in 1803, one could be got for £10; but the _Times_, September 15, 1803, in its Brighton news, says: “The price of substitutes now is as high as forty guineas, and this tempting boon, added to the stimulus of patriotism, has changed the occupation of many a Sussex swain.” The _Annual Register_, October 15, 1803, says: “Sixty pounds was last week paid at Plymouth for a substitute for the Militia. One man went, on condition of receiving 1s. per day during the war, and another sold himself for 7s. 3d. per lb.” [Illustration: BRITISH SOLDIER—1805.] [Illustration: SOLDIERS—1806.] [Illustration: DRESSING PIG-TAILS IN THE OPEN AIR—1801.] [Illustration: HON. ARTILLERY COMPANY—1803.] [Illustration: VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS—1803.] [Illustration: BLOOMSBURY AND INNS OF COURT VOLUNTEER—1803.] The Volunteer movement has been glanced at when treating of the threatened Invasion of 1803. There had, in the previous century, been a grand Volunteer force called into existence, but nothing like the magnificent general uprising that took place in 1803. Their uniforms, and accoutrements, nearly approached the regulars, as ours do now; but there was much more scope for individual fancy. The Honourable and Ancient Artillery Company wore a blue uniform, with scarlet and gold facings, pipe-clayed belts, and black gaiters. The Bloomsbury, and Inns of Court Volunteers dressed in scarlet, with yellow facings, white waistcoat and breeches, and black gaiters, whilst the Rifles were wholly clad in dark green.