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‘ I POETRY. MI:EV:CRY OF - nu'. Ferr'b PROPERTY, ATTER A MX CRUIZE. half of a hasor, three parts of a can, 1 e ht ad and one arm of au earthenware man; A vessel to carry my pease from the cook, TN% n awls, an old ran, and a tatter'd song-hook ; A kt g without hoop•, the two claws of a cut, A itsse, the best part of as ohl iron pot, A Bible, of late fallen into decay, (I he first hook of Genesis torn quite away) A tobacco-box lid, with this motto in blue— " Be constant, for Kitty is constant to you!" A bd;t!e —a valuable ankh:. here, Sometimes holding my candle, and sometimes my beer ; A trunk, which old Adam possess'd you'd suppose, Stuff'd with dogg'rel verses, instead of good clothes; A coat without sleeves, a check-shirt wants the tail; But , since Homer sung ballads,l must nut bewail! A Ft:Mt:MAST MAY, Ills Mij.sty's ship Impettleux, Hamoaze. PzIRLIiIMENTARr PRECEDENT'S. When Judge JENKYNS was brought before the Rump Parlismcnt in 1646, he addressed the SPPAKEIt in the following manner :---" In your speech, Mr. Speaker, you said the House was offended with my behaviour, in not making any obeisance to you upon my coming here ; and this was the more wondered at, because 1 pretended to be knowing in the laws of the land (having made it my study for these five andforty years.) And because lam so, that was the reason of such my behaviour. For, as long as you had the King's Arms engraved on your Mace, and acted under his authority, had I come here, I would have b iwed my body in obedience to his authority, by hich you were first called. But, Mr. Speaker, since you and this house have renounced all your duty nod allegiance to your sovereign, and natural liege lord the King, and are become a den of Mimes, should I bow myself in this house of Kimmon, the Lord would not pardon me in this thing." This provoked the house so much, that withont any trial they voted hint and Sir Francis Butler guilty of high treason, and fixed the day of execution ; but they were respited. After this, they sent a Committee from the House to Jenkyns, and made this offer to him, That if he would own their power to be lawful, they would not only take off the sequestrations from his estates, which were about £5OO per annum, but would also settle a pension on him of £lOOO a-year." To this he airs " That he would not connive at their so doing for all the money they had robbed the kingdom of ; and, should they be so impudent to print any snch matter, he would sell his doublet and coat to buy pens, ink, and paper, (the use of which, it seems, was not debarred him) and would set forth the Commons House in their proper colours." TO THE EDTIVR OF THE STAR. stn---Observing that his Majesty has been pleased to alter aAd revise the &stinctions of dress in the Offi cers of the Army, it suggests (or rather induces me to commit to paper what has long been my opinion) the necessity there is to arrange some more conspi cuous distinguishing marks in another branch of his Majesty's servants, of at least equal value to the wel fare of the Throne and the safety of the Kingdom.— The body whom I wish to bring to the notice of his Majesty, and his Ministers, (more particularly the First Lord of the Admiralty) are the Officers of the Navy, and the object to which I wish to call atten tion is their present dress, as compared with their companions in war, the army. Without making any ambiguous comparisons between the two professions, I think it will readily be admitted that the merits and intrinsic worth of the one for which I now plead, is nowise inferior to the other ; and that the nature of their services and the various parts of the globe they are constantly employed in, call as loudly for those outward marks of dress which beget and confirm re spect, as the more gaily decorated Officers of the army. —lt is a fact universally known to both services, that the comparative respect on foreign service is widely different; whilst the Army Officers, from their dress, receive every military atttention, so essential to gcod discipline, they are bestowed on Officers of the Navy, (if at all) as if doubtful whether they are entitled to them or not. ROYAL MILITARY' COLLZGE. trritcr FROM THE TENTH REPORT OF THR COMMISSIONERS. Of the comparative uniforms of Post Captains and Colonels I shall say little : the latter are now to be distinguished by the honourable badge of a Crown on each shoulder, and I see no reason why the equal supporters of the Crown should not be the equal par takers of its honorary tokens. Commanders of the Navy (who rank with Majors) are entitled to one epaulet only, and that on the left shoulder, whereas a Captain of Infantry has one on the right, thereby bestowing, in outward appearance, a superiority to the inferior Officer. All Field Officers have two epaulets.—Now al though there are no Field Officers in the Navy, (nor Field of any kind but that of Glory) why are not its Officers who hold equal rank with them-to have equal And the same distinctions of dress ? The uniform of a Naval Lieutenant should equal that of an Army Captain's, because his rank does. It is particularly stated in the new army arrange ment of dress, that Lieutenants of the Guards shall bear the same token, because they hold the same rank with Captains of Infantry. Why then should not the same cause produce the same effect with Lieute nants of the Navy ?—But no !—this meritorious class of Officers, on which the existence and conduct of the Navy so materially depends, must go with bare shoulders, a uniform scarce deserving the name, not only neglected, from this dficiency, amidst foreign na tions, but slighted by British sentinels even on their native land, whilst the stripling who has just entered the Armv, in a subordinate situation, receives every due mark of respect ! To what can this fact be attri buted, but to that barrenness of dress which pervades the naval service ?—but possibly the opposers of any alteration in naval uniform, may urge the insufficiency of pay to support the expcnce of a more splendid dress. is argument is but too just, and I should their opinion, did I not conceive that :eri is as necessary to the preservation of ledifnce to the Laws is to the welfare of Ind that Officers of all deruminations had r .n du it purse, than in the respectability )11 and rank whiZl they fill. MINDS. the present year, in the paper delivered to the How of Commons, at upwards of five thousand four hun dred pounds ; a considerable part, however, of this expense is incurred on account of the allowances made to.the students of lodging-money, of ccials and From the view which we had taken of what was c andles, and of forage money, most of which, as the actually done by the Agent and Paymaster of the Lieutenant Governor says, would be'equally made College, it occurred to us, that the whole might pro- to the students were they with their regiments. bably be executed by one person, and a saving be The military branch of the establishment of the ju thereby made of the expence of one of these officers, nior department of the college consists of a comman or of £3OO per annum. The Agent, it apears, makes dant, a major, three captains, and an adjutant, with bur very few payments, except for what is drawn three serjeants, and three drummers. T he number on him by the Paymaster ; and the accounts of pay- of gentlemen cadets to whom this establishment is ments, which he lays before the Supreme Board, and attached exceeds three hundred. They are admitted the Commissioners of Audit, are more properly those between the ages of 13 and 1.5, and arc clothed, lodg ot the Paymaster than his own. His chief employ- 1 ed, and fed out of a general fund, constituted as we ment consequently seemed to be, to collect the sub- ! have before described. They are instructed in lan scriptions of the Students and Cadets. Under this , guages, and in several branches of science having re impression we therefore thought, that if the subscrip- : lotion to the military profession ; and they are tions could be received by the Paymaster at the Cols ! taught the whole erercise and discipline of a bat lege, or could be paid into his banker in London , talion of infantry. The course of these studies is (which might st , ell be done if a certificate or receipt : said to require a residence at the College, of from of the payment at either place were required, before ' three and a half to four years. the students of the departments were permitted to! It is obvious, how continual and minute ought join their respective classes) the office of Agent might . to be the attention of those to whom the superin cease, and we proposed a question to the Governor, tendance over such various duties is intrusted. The Earl Harcourt, to this effect. His Lordship's opinion • Committee of the Board who visited Marlow, had does not coincide with ours. He thinks it essential, an- opportunity of observing many of the arrange that there should be a person of responsibility in Lon- ments by which the system is conducted ; and they don, for the purpose of conducting with more facility bear the fullest testimony to the order, regularity, the pecuniary concerns of the College, and who, and merit, visible in every branch of it. We s on. being on the spot, and conversant with military elude, therefore, on the whole, that this part of the agency, might assist in passing the College accounts, Establishment at Marlow is not greater than is re s in the office of Audit. We must observe on this an- quisite for the controul over the instruction, con swer of Earl Harcourt, that so far as pecuniary re,- duct, and expellee, of so numerous a body of young ponsibility is requisite, a like security may be taken . cadets. of the Paymaster, as is now taken of the Agent, and ; The Professors are nominated and appointed by that the Commissioners of Audit will not probably the Supreme Board, after an examination of the can require much explanation on accounts which are so didates, in the presence of the Collegiate Board, by strictly examined as those of the Royal Military Col- the Senior Master of the Branch for which they are lege are stated to be, by the Collegiate and Supreme Candidates : thirty-two are attached to the junior Boards. But if it were considered as in any degree department. This number is said to be proportioned necessary that there should be a person residing in : by some rule to the number of the cadets. London, in whose name the money issued or paid on ' We learn from the Commandant, Colonel Btu account of the College might stand at the Bank, and ler, that although by the engagements of the Proles who might accept the bills drawn by the authority sons, there is no limitation to the duration or mon d the two Boards, and who might be at the same , ber of their attendances during the day, yet that time the nominal accountant at the office of Audit,' : none of them, except those of mathematics and fo. it seems to us, that this additional service might well ' reign languages, (who attend twice, two hours each be executed by the Secretary to the Supreme Board, time) attend more than once a-day ;it may be in who is resident in London, and that his present salary,; ferred, therefore, we think, that this part of the Es although greater than we conceive it ought to be, for tablishment is greater than is requisite. The sortie executing iha duties of that office alone, would not be inference may be drawn also front an observation more than sufficient for the execution of both services. made in one of Earl of Harcourt's answers, viz.— It must be understood, however, that when we make That by an arrangement lately made, it was hoped this suggestion, we consider that the subscriptions that the same number of Professors would answer may be collected at the College, or be regularly paid the purpose, when the Establishment of the Junior to a banker in London, in the way we have men- Department was completed to four companies, or timed, and that the accounts are also made up at the to 400 Cadets. This event cannot take place, we College, and examined in the same way as at present. imagine, till the buildings at Sandhurst (the founda- Even if the additional responsibility of collecting the tions of which are scarcely yet laid) are capable of subscriptions were thrown on the Paymaster, we do receiving so largo a body, with the necessary Staff, not think that there ought to be any additional in- instructors, and servants, and may probably, there crease to his salary on this account, or on account of , fore, be distant. It• should be considered, conse the security which may be required of him. ' quently, whether it be expedient that a greater nuns- We shall not notice any other of the General Staff , ber of Professors than are wanted should be retained in this place, because such observations as may be' in the mean time? It must 1)e observed, that the applicable to them, may be more conveniently intro- I Professors are not permitted to employ their vacant duced in another part of the report. I time in the private instnictlon either of the cadets or The military part of the establishment of the Senior j of others ; and that some of the French teachers (who Department of the College consists of i Commandant ; are emigrants) receive some allowances from Go. and of an Adjutant. The Office of Inspector-Genes i vernment beyond those which they receive from the ral of Instruction, although included in the list of the : institution. General Staff, seems to be attached also to this Dc- I The house-keeper and purveyor of this department partment, but this office is now vacant, and Lieute- ! are appointed by she Governor. The duties of the nant-Colonel Sir Howard Douglas executes the du- , last officer, and of the Quarter Master, relate to the re ties of it, as well as those of Command;u t, with much : ceipt and distribution of the provisions sent in for the advantage, as Earl Harcourt states, to the Establish- , use of tfie cadets ; and these duties, as described by ment. His Lordship is however of opinion, that i Colonel Butler, appear to be an effectual check On the these offices are in some respects so totally distinct , tradesmen who supply the articles, and severally en from each other, that it would be necessary that both those officers who distribute them. should be continued. We had conceived, that if the The appointment of the domestic servants of this office of Inspector-General was properly filled, the Department is also in the Governor, but he delegates office of Commandant would be unnecessary ; but • that authority to Colonel Butler, the Commandant, whether the one office or the other be discontinued, it , who, being constantly resident at the station, is no is clear that both are now well executed by the same I doubt hest enabled to judge of their qualifications person, and therefore we cannot but think that our . and conduct. The number is said to be fixed by re suggestion is deserving of consideration, especially I gelation, and that although they are occasionally em when it is known that theme are only thirty students l ployed in the private se vice of some of the rams belonging to this department, who must be twenty-; of the College, it does not interfere with the public du one years of age, and must have been accustomed for ; ties of the servants, and that a smaller number would some years to military discipline and subordination ; , not be sufficient, even if they were not so occasionally and it may be added, that the Lieutenant-Governor ! employed. None of the officers or servants of the Col is resident at the station of the Senior Departmeno; lege are permitted to take any fee or emolument be and that it is a part of his duty to see that the orders ; yond their pay and regulated allowances. and regulations applicable to this department are 1 it is proper to meotion in this place, that there are I strictly observed. both garden and pasture land belonging to the Col- I Earl Harcourt describes the duties of the Adjutant lege at Marlow, that the officers of !the College feed I cif the senior department to have been hitherto con- their cows in the exercising ground, consisting co fined to the conveying of the Lieutenant-Governor's ! about four acres and a half ; that the Commandare 1 orders, and to acting as an amanuensis to him. His I occupies another piece of pasture of about one acre Lords/tip does not give any opinion upon the neces- i and a half, and about a quarter of an acre of garden sky of such an appointment, at the expense, induct- I ground ; that one or two other officers occupy other ing pay, lodging money, coals and candles, of up- ; pieces of garden ground, and that these gardens are wards of two hundred and fifty pounds per annum, ' cultivated by the college gardener. There is a bar and therefore we think that nearly the whole of this den also at Wycombe belonging to the College which expense might be saved to the public, by the discon- the Lieutenant-Governor occupies, but the public is .tinuance of this office; for the duty of amanuensis at no expence in the cultivation of it. might be performed, we imagine, by the clerk of this The privileges which we have just enumerated are department. Our suggestion is founded, of course, not allowed by the authority of the Supreme Board, on the description which Earl Harcourt gives of the but by the permission of the Governor alone, who ad duties of the Adjutant : but if there are any other : mits that he is himself responsible for the measure. duties to execute, for which such an appointment is ' These 1 ands certainly could not be made of much wanted, our view of it might be different ; and it has ' value to the public ; but when we consider how apt been intimated, that the duties of the Commandant indulgences of this kind are to increase, and at length are at present of a nature to require such assistance, to grow into rights, which may eventually be corn- The civil part of the Senior Department consists pensated for, if afterwards taken away, we think that of five Professors, and one Assistant Draftsman.— there is an impropriety in allowing them. It may, .. This number is calculated for thirty Students, and be added, too, that such indulgences often give occa is said to be necessary ; fol. as the instruction at High sion to reflections and reports, which, however, tiaa Wycombe consists partly in theory, and partly in the merited, may lead to inconvenience ; and we have exemplification of that theory, on the ground, the. reason to know that such have been propagated in Lieutenant-Governor considers that one or other of the present case. these objects would be impeded, if the establishment of ' We have now submitted such observations yes- Professors were less. It was scarcely possible . for us to pecting the individual Officers of the two Dcpai t ascertain this point. But we must observe, if it were in- ments, as we thought the circumstances called for; tended that the subscriptions of the students should co- but two or three other observations may be stated, ver the expense of their instructors, that the calculation which are equally applicable to both departments. has not been accurately made; for the expense-of the , The first which we shaft m a k e i s , th a t a ll of t h e civil instructors, including their salaries and locking ! Military Staff of the College, with the exception of money exceeds £14.00 per annum, without inclutplig Captain Wright, whose Lieutaantcy on the Irish the coals and candles allowed to them ; and the suk- Establishment was only recently filled up, (April scriptions of thirty guineas for each student amount 1809) and of the Adjutant of the JuniorDepartmenr, only to £945, leaving a deficiency, therefore, .of "be- appear to receive, in addition to their College salary, tween five and six hundred pounds. 'Die whole ex- the full or half-pay of certain ranks in the arnsy, al pence of this branch of the College is estimated, for though, with the exception of the Gbrernor, they are attached to rio regiments ; a* LI perform no duties._ If the salaries of these c , fficers on the est.iblishrnent of the college, are inadequate to their stations in it, (hut which we have no reason to suppose), an adtl;- tion should be made to them ; but these Officers ought not, we think, to receive the salaries or p iy o f tiro situations, whilst they do the duties only of one. The inconvenicnce of a contrary practice is obvious, for, unless on inquiries 1 ke these, which it is our duty Ito institute, it will not appear, in any estimate or ac , count of the expenditure of tly; Royal Military C6l— 'eve, that such an addition is to be made to the ex pense of it, as arises from tile pay or ; , :ilaries of Officers who hold oth 'r situations. Our next observation is, that the Li el e enant C e. vernor has forage for lour lairses, the two Comm.ir. :hints for three herses each, and the Major of the ‘,ev inquirednec necessary 1.17.1.ayr towardslr Harcourt, r t t i , le NV e i lxoei execution t , 1 1 1 1 :.•:t; Juniot Department, a similar allowance for tv:e h aimnc N e V s e the duties of these several officers? It L seems, trim his Lordship's answer, that they were fixed by the Se preuee Board, not with a reference to the duties of the Officers of the College, but with regard to their rael' in the army, and their situation in the institution._ 'We doubt inucli whether these allowances should be. justified on such a principle. Whilst Ziff-kers of tie: rank alluded to are actually serving in the trmv. Ithey are required to Lep the number of horses tr which the forage is dl*.i NVII ; bat there arpears to le to be no necessity of this sort in the Cliege, at 1 .easi to the extent for which the allow ance is made; anc although the pay of the Officers of the L'olleze to be adequate to their station and n spensiteti te i tis particularly expedient, in an iiistitution ( f kind, to give no allowance in addition, which ma , have the appeal ance of being an unnecessary expil. dietv-e of the public money ; for economy and a application of the public money, are as uecessarr to be inculcated into the students of the two departmeete its a knowledge of the military profession itself. lelstly, we may note the separation e t the two de• partments of an institution, w lir se general object, am much of whose system of instruction, are the same It was occasioned, originally. it appears, from tl want of accommodateai at High Wycombe, whee :he Senior Dena: meet, which was first tot tried, we ; and Mei icily wes selected for the denier 1). partment, as being the nearest place affording tn, requisite conveuiences. It cannot be doubted. we enrpose,.that this sc a. ration has produced a considet able additional ex p eec , to the Institution, in the establishment of Officers an Professors ; for the same general supetintenclar might have served fur both Departments, and man , of the Professors also might have attended to the to struction of beth. Under this impression, we pin posed for Earl Harcourt's opinion, whether tf tl.ti two Departments were stationed in one place, the sa prior management of the College might not be cat ried on, under the orders of the Seprenie Board, bi one Governor or Director, one Military Commai dant, and an Inspector-General of Instruction, a sisted by a smaller number of Professors than a; deemed necessary, under the existing separation I the two Departments ? Earl Harcourt does not cot cur with us in the impression we had on this point.. But as it has keen resolved to elect buildings S tndhurst, for the accommodation of the Junior Di partment, and it would be necessary to erect offset also for the Senior Depertment, at the same place, the two Departments were to be united, we agrt with his Lordship, that the very great additional el pense of such erections, may be a reason fur the r, solution of the Supreme Board not to unite Lhern.• Nevertheless, it the two Departments ate to renal separated, and a Gi;yo; nor and Lieutenant-Geyern( are still to be borne en the establishment of the Co lege, it seems that the stations of these etlicersshoul also be separated, and that one of them should tesei at the Senior, and the Wile: at the Junior Depart rent ; but, by the al VaIIgCMCM which has bo:. made of the intended buildings at Sandhurst, hous,. are to be provided for both of these offices at the nior Department, thereby causing a double expel) , of houses, if one is to be provided also. at the state of the Senior Depat tment for one of these officers. It is impo , ,sible fur Britons, natives of the fill/run Land of Liberty, to contemplate, without the liie;ll% degree of sympatily, a gallant people struggling preserve their independence : it cannot, therefore,: pear surprising, that the lives and portraits of Birri, Cie celebrated chief of the Tyrolese, and the two t! polies from those gallant mountaineers, inserted die Reftository of Arts, &c. sholll.l have excited sm extraordinary intere:q. R. ACKi. - RNIANN has now t; satis; action of presenting to :I:e.iLlmi7eis patriotic virtue, the strains which have so often on those herivs to bat:le and to victory, in the T icou:se MARCH, jast publi,lied by him ; and for melody, biiiiiance, majesty, and science, is r , yirpassed by any piece rf martial niul-s: nog ‘v ext , l 7 fee :aivertisement page. -- -------• • PR CE OF 11AY AND STRAW" IN SNIFFIIFILID I`.4ea,love Hay 31. o'.. to 61. Cis. Clever 31. Us co 71. ese ditto 01. o`•1S. ro 01. tits, Rostio. eii. Jul to J.. Straw 111. 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