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TCJ.783.002
11 Dec 1783:23 (1/14)
London . . . Sept 30. . . The manner of recruiting the army
in Russia, is the most singularly arbitrary of any in the
whole world perhaps, and is done as follows:
When any regiments want recruiting, or when new levies
are to be raised, the officers who are appointed to that
business go into the chief towns and villages of the several
provinces, where a herald by sound of trumpet summonses all
the inhabitants together, at which meeting a day, at no
great distance, is appointed for all the men from 18 to 40
years of age, to meet at a particular place, when the day is
arrived, the officer looks over the men, who stand in ranks
for the purpose, and such as he likes he marks just as a
butcher at Smithfield marks such cattle as he chuses to buy
. . .
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