The Colonels, Lieut. Colonels, and Majors, have all Companies, and full Allowance as Captains.

*

The Portions are to every common Soldier a Ton of Corn, the Eighth Part of a Ton of Peafe or Oatmeal, and ten Pounds of Bacon, per Month:

To the Dragoons eighteen Pounds English of Hay per diem, and two Ton of Oats per Month. All under Officers, from Quarter-masters to Drummers inclufively, have double Portions; the Hautboys, where any are, receive their extra Pay from the Colonels.

The Foreign Generals are on different Footings according to their Capitulations.

General Officers

Felt Marshal Lieutenant, 10,000 Dollars, per Annum.

A Foreign Lieutenant General, commonly 3250 Rubles, per Annnm.

* So in the Original; but probably a Russian Ton differs very much ] from ours.

Rubles

All general Officers have Regiments and Companies, with Allowance of Pay and Profits.

REGIMENTS which are not compleatly Officered, cloathed and paid on the Foreign Footing:

Four Regiments in Garrifon at Smolensko,
One Regiment in Archangel,

One Regiment in Veronitz,

Four Regiments in Asoph and Taganrok,
Five Regiments in Aftracan,

MEN.

4800

I 200 1200

4800

6000

In Cafan, and be- Four Regiments of Foot, 4800

tween the Don and Wolga,

Two Reigments of Dra-}

goons,

2000

Twenty-one Regiments,

24,800

Two

}

Two Regiments of Militia near Cafan,
Unregimented Soldiers and Free Com- Į
panies in the leffer Garrifon of Ingria,
Officers and Soldiers of the Artillery in
feveral Garrisons of Ingria,
Recruits exercifing in feveral Parts of
the Country, generally about
Ninety Regiments of Dragoons, as on
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2,000

3,383

767

10,000

} 109,650

Total, 150,600

Six Regiments of Germans, who, after their Capitulation at Perevolotsch, took Service under the Czar, and were fent laft Winter to Cafan and Aftracan, being between three or four hundred each, may be about 10,000.

Of the Coffacks and Tartars I cannot make any juft Computation; the most the Czar has had together in this War, have not been above 30,0co Men.

To thefe must be added, the Garrifons of Siberia and the North, which cannot be drawn off for any Service in Europe.

The Pay of the Officers in the Garrisons and uncompleated Regiments is,

Colonel, from

25 to 30 Rubles, per Month.

Lieut. Colonel, 15 Rubles, per Month:

Major,

Captain,

Lieutenant,

VOL. II.

For Cloathing the Czar's Army, every Man is allowed eight Arfbines of Cloth, from Cloathing fixty to feventy Copeeks the Arbine † ; the first Coft of the Cloth in England is about 3s. and 2d, the Yard.

N. B. Only the Guards have Piftols; they have also better Arms from Utrecht, or Saxony.

The Army is cloathed once in two Years; towards the Cloathing, a Copeek a Day is deducted from the Soldiers; the Czar finds the Arms and Horfes.

Horfes.

The Nobility are obliged to furnish the Horfes for the Dragoons, at feven Rubles a Horse, paid out of the Czar's Treasury, though the Horfes often coft them ten or twelve Rubles a Piece. Some of the Regiments have been mounted on the Swedish Horfes which were furrendered at Perevolotfch; the reft very ill mounted: Moft of the Dragoons are Gentry, obliged to appear by the Tenure of their Lands.

†The Name of a Rufs Measure, near a Quarter less than an English Yard,

The

The Artillery is very well served; the great Guns are most of Metal, generally from three to Artillery thirty-fix Pounders, new caft fince the present War, either from old Pieces, which had been heaped up by the Czar's Ancestors, without any juft Regard to the Calibre, or from the Bells which every Church or Cloifter were obliged to furnish to the Foundery about ten Years ago, according to their Largeness and Income. In 1708, there were a thousand Pieces of Cannon in the Town of Mofco alone; from one to fixty Pounders; the Arfenals of Plefcow, Smolensko and Chioff were filled in Proportion; befides the Field Artillery, every Battalion having two long three Pounders of Metal; the Mortars are of Brafs, or Siberia Iron, of all Bores. The Czar is perfonally very curious in his Fireworks, is Captain of his Bombardiers, and has most foreign Officers, which he engaged in England or Holland after the laft Peace. The Powder is made in Mofco ftrong and good, except the Delivery is connived at by the Officers for their own Profits; the Magazines are not filled with Stores as they ought to be, but fufficient Quantities may be prepared in a little Time, there being several Mills ready, and always Plenty of good Salt-petre from the Ukraine.

Account of the Progrefs made by the Czar in his Shipping.