Major-General ARMSTRONG'S Observations upon Corporal Punishments in the British Army,
together with a Plan to Pro- vide Seamen for the Navy without Impressment, is a tract, not without ingenuity, and some of the remarks display the results of experience. But the suggestions, except as to limited periods of service, are, for the Army, rather palliatives than remedies, and smack too much of the schemer ; whilst the project for the Navy is merely impressment in another though a m bier form. During war-time, the wages of the merchant-service are very high, and the time of serving optional to a certain extent. The King forcibly seizes a man, and makes him work as long as lie pleases, and at his own price. To register all seamen, and call upon the Magis- trates of each town to furnish a required quota at the pleasure of the Admiralty, would be a more formal mode of proceeding, and might occasion less hardship, but would leave the main grievance of wages untouched.
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