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 be in immediate Danger, by an Inſurrection of Weavers, Colliers, or Smugglers.

There may not perhaps be found in the Army ſuch a Number of Men, who have ever condeſcended to paſs through the Labours and irkſome Forms bf Education in Uſe among the lower Claſſes of People, or ſubmitted to learn the mercantile and plebeian Arts of Writing and Reading: I muſt own, that though I entirely agree with the Notions of the Uſeleſſneſs of any ſuch trivial Accompliſhments in the Military Profeſſion, and of their Inconſiſtency with more valuable Attainments; though I am convinced that a Man who can read and write becomes, at leaſt, a very diſagreeable Companion to his Brother Soldiers, if he does not abſolutely ſhun their Acquaintance; that he is apt to imbibe from his Books odd Notions of Liberty and Independency, and even ſometimes of Morality and Virtue, utterly inconſiſtent with the deſirable Character of a pretty Gentleman; though Writing