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`~ ■ , . GERM AN PAPERS. otedents in the Klemeet, on their good conduct, and &wilily towards their superiors; and we shall regard as a real be nefit to it, that ail the enemies of applirat ion, and disturbers who here 141 it, shall sever return to seduce their comps. stows in study. • On the other side, we doubt not that those of the eh sent students, whether natives or externs, who love cyder ,sad study, ardently desire Ins resume, as soon as preamble, •their accustomed occupations; which they may do without any inquietude, lbw that order is perfectly re-established. sad that ma will ram arm its maintewasce in the most rigorous maser, @gab whoever, itudest or other peewit, itottld attempt b Istletvspt tit. Tliliewe that we roper-billy °wire our young ristijogis arthe . kingdois of Hanover, per mits-us hot to see with a• imailinemit eye the prolongation of their absence, sad the suspedidett of their labours. to consequence, we order all Heimivenan subject. 44 Ida Ma jesty, who study at Gottingen, to return forthwith to the Usirersity, in order to matinee their studies there, to re. aster there quietly sod singly, or at least in small numbers at a time; sod it is enjoined to the Academie Senate to sew' as a list of those who shall Dot have obeyed ibis Order.— Those who shall at have hereto eonfbewied, between the present sad the 15th of August at the farthest, shall be de clared, in punishment of their dieobedieace, escapable fur ever to hold airy emiploywreist in the service of the hiagdons, of •hatever description it be. " The Kure erdile'of re-enteriag before the 15th August, equally regards all thesindents, whether foreigurts or na tives, who Ire in the *rimiest of allowances established the Sista st Gottingem. livery each Modest who shall not appear there within' the ohm itimerval, shall Woo for ever the alloWsace That han %Ng coefitered on bins. SNIP Owl swallderaee that moue of use 'Wham law othmeat theltasace cosseerms, will slight the paternal in- MOM that have dictated it solely foe his benefit, aud tkit be will, on thelimilittary, butes, by fulfilling his duty, in ealehlish lib *Wire hello 'futons in the most solid and durable mason. ,0 6 The • Cioninnifr!Gtetral and*rivy Counsellor wf ths 'Cabinet, u lleadvir, Aura 1;1818." " &MEN. 'FLANDERS 11Alt. CO LOON 1, 1110 VST li. According to accounts which are worthy of cre dit, the meeting of the Allied Sovereigns at Ai:- la-Chspelte will not take place before the last fortuight of the mouth of September. The liana lion of guards lately orgauised to do duty about the Sovereigns, will not arrive tiH the lath of Sep tember, instead of the 6th, as had been stated. Mr. Rothschild, the Blinker of Paris, will go to Aix-la-Chapelle at the same time as the London Banker, Mr. Baring. !FRANKFORT, AU.GLIT On account of the Congress. the Diet will have no intention, and the Session will continue without interruption. It is believed that the Emperor of Atmlria will arrive here in a Few days, with a suite of 113 persons ; he will retitle in the Palace of Tour and Taxes, where the President of the Diet bees, and where the sittings are held. Hence the Mo narch will go to Miyake. and to the waters at Wisbaden, till the beginoing of September. aauststs, AUGUST 15. Lord Stewart, )3ritish Ambassador at ‘'irsina, arrived here yesterday from London, oo his way to Vienna. The Duke of Wellington arrived Ostend on the 12th. in the oveniirg. After having suited Ilse fortmses ou the frontiers of West Flanders, his Grace %sill return to the head-quarters at Caaabray. FROM THE MAINS, AUGUST 4. In the journal called the Zeit:chorine*. we find the following passage reenacting the Congress of `.•vereigns at Aix-la•Chapelle :—. " The intended martin of the Allied Sovereigns is now the thief subject of political speculation. It is affirmed that the Sacred Alliance is ripe for a more intimate union of the European Powers, and tint a kind of Republic between the Independent Powers will be formed. This is said to be • favourite plan of the Emperor Alexander, and is the same an was once entertained by Henry IV. of France. It was bromeht forward again (if we mistake not) at the close of the last ceutary, anti this ies a very sensible and rrmarkshle work, called The C'oemeopeliticak Schiraeh, which wan published at Vienna, and immediately suppressed, anti of which we saw a copy about ten years ago, as far ns we can recollect. The system proposed was, all the indepen deist European States were to furor a Confederation, at the head of which the Monarchs of Greet fititain, Austria, France s and Russia, were to be placed by tunes, by election, for a certain time (we tr , here three years). The book treated also of the excess of popu lation in Europe which would necessarily ensue: and id totter Sc avert the evils which would scull (coin this, the author proposed the conquest and eiciltuf of the north of Africa. mad the foondiug of new colunie+ lei South Aerie. eisea. We do not doubt hut that this is the rely plan al leged le, so it excited so extriordinary faun at the time we speak ef."—(Allgeetehte Zeilame, A ligtot II ) COMMA \ TINILIPtr. JI I.Y 10. On the 311 of this titottlit th.• ift,ch..rKe IA arttl i,,y saitifluoired the birth of a Sul.unw, who re ceived tier mime ur H le. The Aliiiistel or the Porte wrtit Ow mune day to Top K4l O l l ti , 1111 1.1 the Sultan, the newly-built 1 1 .thier, which is How Nutshell. The uext rl.iy they wiotetl oil the Grand Seigator, sit Llercliet tw4i, to corgrittularte loin oil the udditiois to the Imp,-n:11 !warmly. . _ _ All forther foe, are tleferrell on Itecount of the ii , tiewleo, or which hvgio on the Sth. IA the rovAllt ?be 711, a fire br. kr out within t h e gate pr Wm, wliitll ile.troyed net 390 awl a mosque. It w. 5 the n,..re clestructive. IN It ertiglit the magazine ol a dealer its posture WWI fist - Wtll 11/Islell rallied • terrtl.lr 1111 l I,y ,511,4 1, •,,..zr 100 perrolitt itst.erriq p.et•ltell, and mom' were much he 1 nu rr O E6, -,l„ni . ',hid. Isnrnr 115 e... I , w,.,11.1 h eel' i l e mr.,y,-d, had not lii .11 111 ilyrs, , ts voor 11l thr irlaer, Hold Ity h rrmen (tawny of whom lost ILIUM' 115 , 4:5 by tltzi: ext:titma), THE BRITI S PRESS. LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 41, 1818. We do set leant that soy Court Circular of the state of her MAJESTY'S lwalth was issued yester. day. It is therefore presumed that her MAJCITY'S cuuralescruce continues. It is stated in a Treasury Journal of last night, that Lord C•seutitx•au will set off in the first wreck of September, to atteed the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle. This is • very shrewd guess.— The Paris Papers state, that the Congress will meet about the middle of September. Lord CASTLE. RBAGH may, therefore, be expected to be stirring in the first week of that month. We find the Tres •ury Journals of late no better informed than their neighbours, even in State affairs. The same Paper adds, that his Lordship is the wisest, the great est, and the ablest Statesman the world ever saw. King Sot.ostott, in comparison with him, was a perfect fool !! ! Sunday being the anniversary of the Assumption of the A'irgin, it was observed as a strict holiday in Prance sod no Journals were printed in Paris on that day. Those of Monday, which have been re ceived, bear also the date of tht preceding day. A Flanders Mint has arrived, with Papers from Brussels to tbe 16th instant. The Congress of Sovereigns is not expected to meet at Aix-Is. Chapelle until the middle of September. Mr. Itoviscnturr and Mr. BAILING, the Financial Su. sereigo*, a►e expected in that city about the same time. What influence the capture of Pensacola May be eltpeeted to 'ltemise upon the polities of this Coon. try, end the consequences that m.ty thence mutt to the ca use of the South American Independeists, are Wis . 's.' that con+•tently occupy the attention of every persou accustomed to Awns uu opinion upon positing , rends. There are many, however, who very calmly determine that the point must mine under the consideretion of the approaching Con gress at Aix-la-Chapelle. and that it is our part to aattit the decision in all humility. Possibly the saute curs, of politician, would be equally satisfied, were the Sovereigns of the Continent to take upon themselves the Nat of regulating the internal affairs of this and tivry other country in Europe. The uperatiosis of General Jaciiotes army iu the Floridiss me moult to lamented ; for. as we ca 11111 l t believe them to have been undertaken with out the special authority of the ClovertiMent or Wisdom:toss, they give a perplexity to the question of American affairs, es far as we are concerned, that my prove very injurious to the cause of inde pendence in the South. These, Kith the exicution of Itittuvis:oT and ,tcsanetscsa, which, we fear, it will he stry difficult to explain, demisted 11w most cartiebt attention of the Pailismeut of 014 Kitig- •`~,Z~~ dote and et a moment so highly interesting as the reehnt, Vat.% the country is in some degree threnteneil with exter►al war in one tart—whe►► events are about to be seated in another, on which the repose of the world may poasibly de pend—and when • spirit of discontent at home !strew!'" a very large and important class of our people, affecting the existence of our staple maim factories, it is much to be regretted that his Ma jesty's Ministers have not determined upon calling together tlw National Representatives. Unfortu ' widely we have of late years been so much in the habit of looking to the decisions of Continental Cabinets fur ordering the destinies of the world, that now, when our own immediate interests are deeply implicated, the people of England are taught to look with anxiety to the meeting of certain Puten. tate., that they may thence learn what litie of policy this country is to adopt. ft would, no doubt, under every circumstance, be de'sirable that the British Cabinet should maintain • good under standing with the Powers of the Continent; but we conceive that the interests of this country would be much more effectually secured were our Ministers tq refer the consideration of them to Parliament, rather than to a Comatose of Kings and Ministers. Ti. such an assembly. we 'may presume, from the political aspect of Europe, that the Continental Powers have, fur the most part, a community of interests, as distinguished from those of Great Britrio ; and 54 io such an assembly the repre. sentative of the latter can have but one vote, we may fairly conclude, that, on many occasions, our arms sod treasure must be directed to be employed in pursuits not sanctioned by the actual sentiments of our Miuisters. That something similar to this was determined in the Congress of Vienna with respect to Norway, Poland, Genoa, aud Venice, we have little doubt ; and that a determination no less hostile to British interests, and no less grating to humanity, will be formed at the Congress of Aix• lu-Chapelle with respect to the Spanish Colonies of America, there is every reason to apprehend. Strengthened by this assurance, the friends of the Spanish Government industriously circulate that the Potentates of Europe will be occupied with the affairs of that monarchy, as far as they relate to the disputes between Spain and Portugal, be tween Spin and the United States of America, and between Spain and her Colonies. In the multiplicity and variety of these affairs, it so happens that the interests and character of Great Britain al* seriously involved ; and will it be en dured by the Parliament and the people, that concert's so vital should be referred solely and ex clusiVely to the fiat of a foreign assembly ? Shall the emperor of RlM* * who hes so lately proved his hostility to this eothitry, by imposing • prohibi tory duty upon our martfoctures, be permitted to decide upon the fate of our American commerce ? This Sovereign has, by his affectation of magna nimity, thereby ,leaking designs the most anibi tious, and most dangerous to the welfare of Europe, succeeded in deceiving many of the politicians of the Continent with regard to his real character ; nor is he without his dupes in the Cabinet of Eliglind. These strive to make hi& their prototype, but in their zeal of imitation, they have unfortunately overlooked one point of his character, and forgot that in his magnanimity he never failed to advance his own power at the expense of others. The uteri. fire of the British trade with South America, ►en dering Great Britain perhaps the instrument of her own degradation, would prove a master-piece of art, and be a very profitable exercise of his osten tatious quality. It is understood that Lord CASTLEREAGH will attend the approaching Congress to protect, tti we shall seriously be told, the interests of Great Britain. His country would be satisfied were his Lordship to maintain them in her native Parliament, A Congress of Kings is not the scene for discuss. ing the interests of Great Britain. If the emer gency he such as to require discussion, let Polio. ment be summoned ; let Ministers lay the state of the country and of her foreign relations fairly before the Representatives of the People, and no fears need be entertained but that the result will be as wise, u virtuous, and as likely to be effectually en forced ar if the Sovereigns of the Continent had suet in Council. It was wisely Orovlded by ittar ancestors, in frama log the British Coedbatik. that the Sovereig n should not by his owl immediate set bind himself or his people to any object of fdreign policy. It was thereby contemplated that the people should, in the responsibility of Ministers, have some eetd rity against the dangerous Confederations of Kings, and that no measure of importance should be con cluded without the sanction of Parliament. This saved us front sin immediate participation in the Unholy Allunerei but the provision is deprived ails utility if Ministers be permitted to bind the coun try at their own discretion, and to employ its anus mid treasures by their own untianctioned act. True it is that they are subsequesitly . liable to censure and punishment from Parliament; hut, in the menu time, the evil will have been committed, the in terests of the country sacrificed, and het character tainted by the indiscretions of her Rulers. The Duke of It'6l.t,socrom strived on the Ilth into. at Ostend, where hr inviteeted the fortified tun's, tarter hoeing, on the same day, inspected those of Nltion and Ypres. Di* Grace let Ostend on the 13th, to Tivit the fortilivattuns at Nietsnort ; he au, expected to arrive uts the *awe day et Ghent. thr, e times averted tie threatening danger. Tile Are broke out in the hola•oe of a inutty-coot, and theinglt thgre was no wind. spread with - incre iiilile4iapially? thi theilittb June there wai an affecting -cere mony in the chapel of the Frt•itell Embassy. 'forty whirs of the French brig .the Lizard, whit* is at anchor et irerapia. who in consequence taf the Be. enlist' load lived im infidelity and entire ignoraoce of Chro tianity, were confirmed, and partook a the Doily Commotions for the first time, foe Oki, they had been pirpared by the Abbe Forbin Janson. This worthy priest has brought back. at Smyrna and ether ! daces of the Levant, many Christian born Catholics hitt) the bosom of the Church, and by his apostolic so al, every where spread the Wes.- jugs of our holy religion. By order of the Sultan, a Capidgi Pacha is ap pointed to receive and attend the newly-appointed Austrian Micronuclei, Count Lutsow. It is Had schi Mustapha Aga, the same who was sent to meet the Persian Ambassador. who lately departed. Accounts from Bagdad, of 25th May, speak of a new campaign of the Governor of that city against Mardi'', the inhabitants of which are the Cerdish tribes in the neighbourhood, whose power has much ' increased within a year ; they refose to admit into the city the newly-appointed Governor of Mardiu, because lie is the same who some time ago caused an insurrection in Mardin and the neighbourhood by his violence and extortion, for which reason he was deposed by the last nacho of Bagdad. No accounts have vet been received from Cairo to confirm the news of the successes of Ibrahim Pucka against the Wechabites, and the asserted taking of Drehyck, their capital. The state of the health of this city has become worse within this fort. Right; some cues of plague have appeared in the city, in the6reek quarter of Fausr, at Jeuikague, Gales. and even in Petra.-....(Frookfurt Paper, 2'm Ohl ) IV AT NINE OVILOCIL NEXT TUESDAY MORN ING, TWO PRIZES OF Mean, TWO PRIZES OF £l,BOO, 1,000 SOVEREIGNS, &c. WITH GOLD, CLA RET, PORT, MADEIRA- ALL MUST RE DRAWN NEXT TUESDAY.—LOTTERY FINISHISS. _- ~_.. • • •. • '''- ) " - ig'S s :fr . tr7:44C). 7 - . , --- ........„...--",...,4, A. 7- f tr.:,r rej: -- --1. , . fr--,- lii-stc*,:,,l t , ' ...," - •••••• '-' -- 4ittir,, ;44, ORICI,V.4L POETRY. TO CORINNA. If that to kiss thy hand be sweet, Whit richer pleasures croup the trraf, To per thy balsay lip ; Fragrant as iambi which hire the Bee To perfumed duster. et Ishansused Mellifluous jolt, to sip. if that to we with thee °se hour, Give Cupid such ell cowering power, To make es& Wirt Ihy slave—. {rho thew would sot a prissier be, flat thy sweet seer might set bias free Aud give thee what you gave t, eves 1, bow bleed list baud, Lave peeved that lip.mt thy commutd, Your Aare I as odour; And oily out pure wish remghts, That me you'd loose froifi Cspi.l'e chains, Asd bind um with thine owls. IIENRY. FASMiONABLE MOVEMENTS. The Carl and Countess of Crave': and fatilly, left their honor in Charles-street, Berkelersoinare, yesterday morning, for their seat, Hampstead Lodge, Berks. Departures yesterday from ‘l'arren's New lintel, New street :—Lord James O'B►ien and family, fur Brussels; and the Re►. Mr. Coition, for Paris . Colonel Barrow has left his house in Gloucester-place, on • tom% Edward Taylor, Esq. left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond street, yesterday, for his seat, Bifrons, near Canterbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury left Lambeth Palace yea. terday, for his seat, Addington Park. Lord Clifton is arrived at his father's(Earl Darnley) house, in Berkeley-squire, from Paris. The Earl sod Coustess of Thanet are expected to leave town to-morrow, for their seat in Kent. . ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. The new opera went off last night with eclat. The other entertainments of the night here equally successful; The house overflowed with an elegant and fashionable audience. Ever' admirer of ge nuine native talent must rejoice in the prosperity which has attended this interesting Theatre in the present season. " There is," we are told, " a tide in the affairs of men"—the same may be said of Theatres. At the English Opera-house it is now high tide, and from the merit of the entertainments, and the talents of the company, it will not ebb until diverted by the opening of the Winter Theatres. The Strand now divides the hustle of the west end of the town with the Hay market. The flux and reflux of fashionable equi pages every evening fill the approaches to the English Opera-house, and this part of the Strand presents a scene of life, bustle, and business. MUIR, Au°. 19.—Last evening. bet Ween six and seven o'clock, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of CzteattinoE, attended by the Princess's brothers and Baroness HEIDEMAN, arrived at Wright's Hotel, under a salute from the guns at the heights; and this morning, at eleven o'clock, the whole party embarked from the Inn stairs in the barge of the yacht, under a similar sa lute. On the yacht getting under weigh, the Pioneer schoonet, Lieut. ROUSE, which was in the roads, fired a salute with her yards Manned. A most beautiful breeze at N.E. soon conveyed the Royal Party over. Mips O'NEILL will perform Bertha. in The Nine of Honour, and Maria. in the Mani, for her own benefit, at the Newcastle Theatre. on Monday night, being the last of her engagement iu that town. The following theatrical announcement is copied from a Newcastle Paper:— " Mutat of superior taloa!! !—Secood Night or Miss O'Naisx's and Mr. W. RlPlClMarot's tagagement. Probably the only opportailii) that ever way wear of those p•rformcrs iippaariag at the mine time on the Newcastle stage." Curious enough, a Provincial Paper lately an nounced the conjunetion of Veisais and the Dug Star, in nearly the same words. The country Papers seem greatly puzzled to find a name for the late embarrassment at Gloucester Assizes. Scarcely any two of them give it the sante title. Some of them entitle it 4 , Confusitiu among the Lawyers." A Newcastle Paper calls it •' The Lawyers in a Qaandary." Isis oR Marti.—The number of people who have visited the Isle of Mann in the course of the present season; far exceeds what has been known in former years, and the ►esort still continues ; ap pa►ently without the smallest abatenseest. Mr. CHANTRET'S marble butt of the late excel lent Mr. Ifoititza, which was so much admired at the last Exhibitidn at the Royal Academy, is about to be placed in the College of Advocates, at Edinbu►gh. The fine statue of Mr. President Biala, just 6ui.hed by the same eminent artist, is about to be placed in a public edifice at Glasgow. Mr. HATOON's long-expected historical picture. representing Masi entering Jerusalem., is at length in a state of great forwardness—all the heads are entirely finished, and the figures nearly painted. The work will be soon completed ; it will be a fine example of this artist's powers in the first walk of Iris arduous profession. CURIOVS OPINIONS OF SIR RICHARD IHITDR AND LORD (IA I.E.—Sir RICHARD flirDE once held, that ►f one man bought another's goods of the thief, though he had known them to be stolen, if he had given the just velue far them, he would not h a ve hecome an accessary to time theft. Lord lIALR differed front this opinion. .4 rot if there be tiny (Md.." said he, " he that gives rupee, Irene fits the felon ►mo►e than lie that gives less than the value." >, . to the EDITOR of The BRITISH PRESS. A I), woe is mg ! To have seen what I have seen — see what I sec!" MR. Entvoa.....Some thirty years have elapsed since I left, for a foreign dime, my entire country, then not improperly styled "Old England." I ii— turiseds a few months ►ince, and, to my unspe,.k. able regret, found every thing changed—new Mi. :sisters, new measures, new manners, new maxims, Indeed, so extensive are the innovicions, that my country may now be aptly denominated, " Ario England." When I went abroad, my countrymen were a peaceable, smoking, porter-drinking, heel. eating, bell-riuging race. They are now *holly metamorphosed. Inoculated with • wildary isle, their former quiet habits are quite forgotten— and nothing pleases them, in the decoration of their houses and persons, in their phraseology, in their reading, and even in the production of their dia. rnatic entertainments, that has not some reference to " th' trade of arms." This fact I shall now pro. ceed to prove. In walking through the town, I perceive that the solid blocks of wood or atone, which were form e ' ly Placed at the corner's of streets, have been tern..vi.rl, and, in theirs-wn, masses of cast-trot,, in the shape of cannon, have been substituted. The railings by which the fronts of houses are secured, have assumed the forme• of pikes, spears, and halberts. The holies, instead of ordinary brooches, ►epre. renting a flower, or some other emblem of their purity and innocence, wear in their bosoms minis. tore daggers and sabres. Nay, I have seen some of them sport a Small musket and bayonet. There is not an apprentice about town, who does not sally forth, every evening, in a military great coat and Wellingtons ; arid I verily believe, that the Oaks worn by those non-descripts, the Dandies, are meant as an humble imitation of the arnionr by which the Preach cuirassiers were protected. The Newspapers, which ought to correct, I am ashamed to say, countenance and encourage this vicious and unnatural propensity. I frequently see the light column headed with " Fashionable Movements;" and, but a few days since, a pars: graph appeared in most of the Juornali, announc ing " that the materiel of the Duke of Cast- BRIDGE'S establishment sad been sent forward to the Continent, under the protection of an acleaneed guard, composed of his Royal Highness's most trusty domestics." In conversation, the same error prevails. Pro fessional bodies are no longer spoken of as they formerly were. Physicians ire denotainated, "the Corps of Stiptiers and Miser!"—Surgeons, " the corps of Pitntoeht." I suppose in alln4w, to Oar facility with which they kit and slash all befoft them—. Lawyers, "the Cors Rijlemen"—Publi. cans, " the Corps of Stittlers"—and so on, ad infi. mitoses. Again, we are constantly reminded of "the Corps Diplontotique"—and " the Corps Drama tique ;" and, whth the Theatre is about to be opened for the season, we are quaintly informed that " General —, having received powerful re. inforcements, is about to commence the campaign. with great vigour." Even in the most private and domestic circles the same language is heard ; and I have listened with astonishment, when a female friend of mine has declared, not that she would scold her servant for improper conduct, but that she would, in the first instance, " blow her vp," and then "compel her to make her retreat, with out bag or baggage, for in her house she should not path her tent another night." The stage has also become infected. Those pieces only succeed io which there are lialf.a.doren battlee=charges of horse and foot—firing of castles frequent discharges of musketry. This is the only fire I could perceive in the mamas I have recently wituessedind, being rather asthinati., the smoke in which they terminated, affected me infinitely more than the incidents which they com prised. The composers of music', of course, find it ne cessary to follow the fashion. They have discarded melody end harmony from their works, and he it cOnsidered the cleverest genios, who can produce the greateet node. Hence, the trumpet, drum, trombone, sefpent, bassoon, end every other species of warlike instrument, are constantly in requisition —while those of greater sweetness, but less power, are almost wholly neglected. But this is not the worst of the evil. The same spirit pervades the senate, the pulpit, and the bar. Judge df my astonishment, when I heard the grew, pee/leaf& of Europes Lord Castlereagh, in an swering the speech of one rat his opponeins iii the House of Commons, declare, " that he would bring the heavy a►N//wry of his arguments to hear on thefandineentalfirarare of the Hon. tientlemaa's speech, in which he doubted not he would Ppreatly make a practicable breach, well forted as the Hon. Gentleman *opposed it to be, and powerfully protected as it certainly was, by the erorrfire of the subsidiary fortes that had lately tali ird under the Hon. Gentletuan's banners." Very recently, I heard a sermon preached by a most popular clergy man, whose phrases were onty worthy of a disciple of the Church Militant. " Heaven," he asserted, " could only be taken by storm, and therefore it Will that he sounded the trumpet of faith, in order to in spirit those faint-hearted soldiers, who were too timid to rash boldly into action," With respect to the N k , " `., r 'r`