training of soldiers, and the due enforcement of the laws and regulations instituted by authority for their conduct.

Next to the forming of troops, military discipline is the first object that presents itself to our notice; it is the soul of all armies; and unless it be established amongst them with great prudence, and supported with unshaken resolution, they are no better than so many contemptible heaps of rubble, which are more dangerous to the very state that maintains them than even its declared enemies.