Workmen

Are persons that attend the ammunition, boatsmen, carpenters, smiths, millers, bakers, waggoners, miners, pioneers, . When soldiers are employed upon fatigue, or working parties, the drums and fifes, ., should invariably play to time and measure. According to marshal Saxe, they should be relieved at the expiration of two hours and an half; by which means the individuals are le harra ed, and all the troops share alike. With regard to accompanying them in their labor with music, the policy of it is warranted by antiquity. The Lacædemonians, with a detachment of only three you sand men, under the command of Lysander, destroyed the famous Pyræus of Athens in le than six hours. During the whole of the operation, the flutes were playing, to enliven and encourage the troops. This custom existed in France to a late period among the galley-slaves at Marseilles; who, whilst they were employed in removing enormous loads of rubbish, . were constantly accompanied by musical instruments and drums. Marsh. Saxe’s Reveries, pages 157 and 158.