by fire and the sword, and 150,000 for local expenditures, and 914,772 for
the expenses of the Hessian army.

Mr. Kapp says it is claimed that the Elector paid his troops the full
English pay, but his authorities show that they got only three-fourths of
it, although he had promised Suffolk not to reduce it to one-half in the
American war, as he had done in the Seven Years' War. He certainly broke
faith by a reduction of even a quarter. That the Hessian soldiers did
receive the full English pay is attested by the treaties with England and
by the moral honesty of the Hessian Elector. The fact was attested at the
time by daily experience, and cannot be contradicted by a perjured
soldier, for the rate of pay was better for the Hessian than for the
English soldiers, and they knew it too well to be put off with anything
less than the full amount. The regular pay was increased by regular
additions for winter clothing, food, lodgings, baggage, forage, and other
such expenses, while both English and Hessian soldiers were supplied free
of cost with wood, etc., and divided fairly all booty. The proportionate
charges for arms, etc., were higher in the English than in the Hessian
army, but as compensation each man of the yaeger regiment was given extra
pay of L1 a month.

The English troops in Gibraltar began their pay with L1 9_s._ for the
sergeants, the Hessian troops with L1 14_s._ The general officers alike
received L59, while the Hessian company commander's pay was increased from
L13 to L19 by special allowances. The second lieutenant in the English
service got L5 2_s._, the Hessian one shilling more, and in addition there
were extra monthly allowances--for lieutenants 8 thalers, for captains 32
thalers, for generals 180 thalers. The higher officers retained their
Hessian rank with its pay. The Hessian commander-in-chief drew his English
monthly pay of L121 and the Hessian pay of L182. Captain Ewald, of the
famous yaegers, is on record as notifying his company commanders that their
pay was a guinea a day in addition to their share of booty. For provisions
got in the country where the troops were serving there was no charge. The
yaegers received each twenty English shillings' worth a month and his side
arms; the line soldier, twelve and a half shillings. There never was an
army so well paid as the Hessians in the English service in America. A
married subaltern could support his family at home and live well. Ewald
says the comp