The Commonwealth of Oceana [148]
the Academy, assembled after six weeks' warning and upon that occasion. These things among us are sure enough to be censured, but not know the nature of a commonwealth; that they are free, and yet to curb the genius in a lawful recreation to which they are naturally is to tell a tale of a tub. I have heard the Protestant ministers in France, by men that were wise and of their own profession, much blamed in that they forbade dancing, a recreation to which the genius of that air is so inclining that they lost many who would not lose that: nor do they less than blame the former determination of rashness, who now gently connive at that which they had so roughly forbidden. These sports in Oceana are so governed, that they are pleasing for private diversion, and profitable to the public: for the theatres soon defrayed their own charge, and now bring in a good revenue. All this is so far from the detriment of virtue, that it is to the improvement of it, seeing women that heretofore made havoc of their honor that they might have their pleasures are now incapable of their pleasures if they lose their honor. About the one-and-fortieth year of the commonwealth, the censors, according to their annual custom, reported the pillar of Nilus, by which it was found that the people were increased very near one-third. Whereupon the Council of War was appointed by the Senate to bring in a state of war, and the treasurers the state of the Treasury. The state of war, or the pay and charge of an army, was soon after exhibited by the Council in this account:
THE FIELD PAY OF A PARLIAMENTARY ARMY
The lord strategus, marching ?0,000 Polemarches-- General of the horse... 2,000 Lieutenant-general... 2,000 General of the artillery.... 1,000 Commissary-general... 1,000 Major-general.... 1,000 Quartermaster-general... 1,000 Two adjutants to the major-general... 1,000 Forty colonels..... 40,000 100 captains of horse, at ?00 a man... 50,000 300 captains of foot, at ?00 a man... 90,000 100 cornets, at ?00 a man.... 10,000 300 ensigns, at ?0 a man.... 15,000 800 Quartermasters, Sergeants, Trumpeters, Drummers, 20,000 10,000 horse, at 2s 6d per day each... 470,000 30,000 foot, at 1s per day each.... 500,000 Chirurgeons... 400 40,000 auxiliaries, amounting to within a little as much... 1,100,000 The charge of mounting 20,000 horse.. 300,000 The train of artillery, holding a 3d to the whole 900,000
Sum total ?,514,400
Arms and ammunition are not reckoned, as those which are furnished out of the store or arsenal of Emporium: nor wastage, as that which goes upon the account of the fleet, maintained by the customs; which customs, through the care of the Council for Trade and growth of traffic, were long since improved to about ?,000,000 revenue. The house being thus informed of a state of war, the commissioners brought in --
THE STATE OF THE TREASURY THIS PRESENT YEAR, BEING THE ONE-AND-FORTIETH OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Received from the one-and-twentieth of the commonwealth:
By ?00,000 a year in bank, with the product of the sum rising.............. ?6,000,000
Expended from the one-and-twentieth of this commonwealth:
Imprimis, for the addition of arms for 100,000 men to the arsenal, or tower of Emporium......... ?,000,000 For the storing of the same with artillery... 300,000 For the storing of the same with ammunition... 200,000 For beautifying the cities, parks, gardens, public walks, and places for recreation of Emporium and Hiera, with public buildings, aqueducts, statues, and fountains, etc...... 1,500,000 Extraordinary
THE FIELD PAY OF A PARLIAMENTARY ARMY
The lord strategus, marching ?0,000 Polemarches-- General of the horse... 2,000 Lieutenant-general... 2,000 General of the artillery.... 1,000 Commissary-general... 1,000 Major-general.... 1,000 Quartermaster-general... 1,000 Two adjutants to the major-general... 1,000 Forty colonels..... 40,000 100 captains of horse, at ?00 a man... 50,000 300 captains of foot, at ?00 a man... 90,000 100 cornets, at ?00 a man.... 10,000 300 ensigns, at ?0 a man.... 15,000 800 Quartermasters, Sergeants, Trumpeters, Drummers, 20,000 10,000 horse, at 2s 6d per day each... 470,000 30,000 foot, at 1s per day each.... 500,000 Chirurgeons... 400 40,000 auxiliaries, amounting to within a little as much... 1,100,000 The charge of mounting 20,000 horse.. 300,000 The train of artillery, holding a 3d to the whole 900,000
Sum total ?,514,400
Arms and ammunition are not reckoned, as those which are furnished out of the store or arsenal of Emporium: nor wastage, as that which goes upon the account of the fleet, maintained by the customs; which customs, through the care of the Council for Trade and growth of traffic, were long since improved to about ?,000,000 revenue. The house being thus informed of a state of war, the commissioners brought in --
THE STATE OF THE TREASURY THIS PRESENT YEAR, BEING THE ONE-AND-FORTIETH OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Received from the one-and-twentieth of the commonwealth:
By ?00,000 a year in bank, with the product of the sum rising.............. ?6,000,000
Expended from the one-and-twentieth of this commonwealth:
Imprimis, for the addition of arms for 100,000 men to the arsenal, or tower of Emporium......... ?,000,000 For the storing of the same with artillery... 300,000 For the storing of the same with ammunition... 200,000 For beautifying the cities, parks, gardens, public walks, and places for recreation of Emporium and Hiera, with public buildings, aqueducts, statues, and fountains, etc...... 1,500,000 Extraordinary