pamphleteer's]
information is of a confidential kind, but there are plenty of printed
books, etc., that, he says, bear him out--biographies of the Elector,
sermons on his death, by Raffius, Roques, Rommel, and Pfister, the
resolutions of the Guilds on the accession of his successor, all
expressing grief for the death of his father; Schlieffen's "Memoirs,"
"Ephemera" of 1785, with Lith's "Campaigns of the Hessians," Schloezer's
"Correspondence and Annals," John Mueller's "Letters," the "Military
Library of 1789," Ewald's "Life" in Manvillon's Military Journal for 1821,
Pfister's "North American War of Independence," Eelking's "History," the
Hessian papers of the time, the papers of the Hessian Historical Society,
v. Och's "Observations," Valentini's "Recollections," "Debates of the
Parliament of Hesse," the treaties with England, the rewards and honors
paid by the King of England to German officers and soldiers, even Kapp's
writings. There are many unpublished documents, diaries of officers and
enlisted men, of pay and quarter-masters, and journals in the archives and
offices of Hesse, public and private.

Kapp charges that the Elector reserved the right, forbidden, it is true,
to his officers, of filling the ranks of his regiments going to America by
compulsory enlistment, and that his subjects fled to Hanover to escape it.
Schlieffen and Faucit, the former the Hessian, the latter the English
agent, and Suffolk, the English minister of war, had a long correspondence
on the subject. The answer to this is that Hesse had passed stringent laws
on this subject as far back as 1733, renewed them with increased penalties
in 1762, and they were enforced in one case by punishment which included
loss of rank and imprisonment and exile. Again, 1767 and 1773 saw
republication of these regulations. Losses by desertion or irregular
discharge were so small that only thirty out of twelve thousand were so
reported, and these cases all took place near Hanover, where it was easy
to take refuge and find shelter. Enlistment of foreigners,--that is, other
than the subjects of the Elector, who were all liable to be called into
service, was introduced by him solely and openly in order to relieve his
own people and to fill their places with volunteers. Even the desertions
in America were due to the temptations offered by the fruitful farms and
the ease with which the Hessian soldier was made an American citizen, the
husband of an American wife, a