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A new System of
MILITARY DISCIPLINE
founded on Principal.
By a Gen eral Officer.
CONTEN rs,
Chap. I. Se&. I. Of dress. Art. 1. Of clothing.
2. Of convenience. 4. Of appearance. Sedt 11.
Of arms. Arc. 1. Of the bayonet. 2. Of the fire
lock. Sect 111. Of accoutrements.
Chip 11. The duty of the Corporal. Se&. I.
Inhru^tons. Se&. 11. Of reaped to superiors. Art.
I. Of deportment. 2. Of the (tending salute. 3.
Of the piling salute. Sect. 111. I'o tland. Art. 1.
Of handing ereft. 2, Of planting the feet. Sed.
IV. The facings. Sed. ,V, To march. Art. I.
To balance the body. 3. To ground the foot. 3.
To limit the Hep. 4. To prelerve equality of pace.
Four propositions on the regularity of stepping and
forming the ranks. Art. 5. Of marching by files,
wheeling, &c.
Chap. 11l Duty of the Serjeant. Se&. I. Instruc
tions in twenty particulars. Se& 11. Lhe parade
exercise, with the ufeful observations thereon.
Chap. IV. Duty and indrudions of the Adjutant.
The method of performing the different kinds of
parapet and rejoicing fires. Se& 111. Of the Co
lumn, exemplified in a variety of Cases. Of palling
a bridge.
Sed. IV. Of the square. The fquafe formed
out of one battalion, confiding of four grand divi
sions exemplified in twenty-seven particulars.
Chap. V. bhe exercise as it is to be performed by
signal or word of command from the Major, or
from any other officer. A fleetch of a battalion
confiding of ten companies, in each sixty-nine pri
vates and three corporals, making in the whole se
ven hundred and twenty men rank and file, drawn
up in reviewing order, and according to seniority.
Rules tor telling off the battalion, and for polling
. the officers both at exerciie and at a&ion. A sketch
of a battalion formed for action or exercise, with the
ranks at the whole distance or open order. Sig
nals, words of command, and particular references.
Rules, maxims, and observations, for the govern
ment, condud, and discipline of an army.
To the PUBLIC.
ALL sciences have their peculiar graduates, as
well to inftrud pupils in their rudiments, as to bring
them to the higher elements of their profeffion; our
author has therefore alotted to the Corporal, to the
Serjeant, and to the Adjutant, their different de
grees of inftrudion, that each may be responsible for
thole committed to his charge; and by that means
that the exercise may be more correct and expediti
ously learned. He then introduces the whole exer
ciie complete, as it is to be performed by word of
command from the Major, or any other commifii
oned officer, or by signal. In that part where our
author treats of the field exercise, he comprehends
such operations as are necessary 10 be performed
against the enemy, as different exigencies may there
require. In treating of the Column, the Line, and
the Square, this author points out their various
uses and purposes, shews some of their capital de
fers, and proposes several amendments. The whole
is concluded with an Appendix containing rules,
maxims, and observations tor the government, con
duff, and discipline of an army.
This work is written upon a new plan, and is
peculiarly adapted for the use of young officers,
Shewing the particular duties of each, and the molt
easy method of training their men in order to be
come expert soldiers,
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June 3, 1776 MARTIN SHAUWECKER.
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June 8, 1776.
SATURDAY,
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" You have been told that we are seditious, im
" patient of government, and desirous of Indepen
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'' and we shall ever esteem a union with you to be
" our greateJl glory and our greateJi happiness.
“ Place us in the lame situation we were at the close
" of the last war, and our former harmony will be
" restored." Continental Congress's
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L O N D O N, March 14.
AR EPORT was circulated yesterday, that there
was an embargo laid on all ships bound to
France; but on what foundation we will not pre
tend to fay.
Ten independent companies of Invalids are to be
formed from among the out pensioners of Kilmdn
ham, who are designed to garrison some parts of this
kingdom. A board of the Governors is summoned
for that purpose, and will meet this day.
In a lift of promotions as inserted in the London
Gazette, and dated War-Office, Jan. 30, it will be
found that no lets a number than seven officers be
longing to the regiments nowin Boston have resign
ed their commissions. A strong proof of the disa
greeable service in which the army is now employed.
Advices from Dublin fay, “ This Capital will
soon be too hot for the Viceroy's Adviser, Manager
and Secretary, to remain much longer: so that ano
ther mutt very speedily be appointed in his room."
We hear from Dublin, that the discontents of the
people have been litely considerably increased by the
appointments given to Mr. Jenkinfon, Welbcre Ellis
and Lord Clare, whom the Iriffi hold in a very
contemptible light: The Coffee-Houfes in Dublin
abound with the moll violent abute against these
ministerial favourites, for attempting to get an in
create of salary annexed to offices, which are m re
sinecures, and a burthen to the nation; nay, the
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L ED G E R:
Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey
Irish gentlemen in the interest of the Crown think
themlclves ill-used, by having luch appointments
bellowed on Jenkinfon and Ellis who are Grangers
to the country, and coniequently no ways interes
ted in its prosperity, farther than it may answer the
particular views of their patron.'
St. James's, March 22. This day the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor, several of the Aldermen, the She
riffs, and some of the Common Council of the city
of London, waited upon his Majesty (being intro
duced by the Earl of Hartford, Lord Chamberlain
of his Majesty's Houfhold) with the following Ad
dress and Petition, which was read by the Recorder:
To the KING'S Moll Excellent Majesty,
The humble Address and Petition of the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London',m
Common Council afembled;
Moll gracious Sovereign,
W E ’ the L ° rd Ma y° r ' AHermen, and Common
VV Council of the city of London in Common
Council assembled, beg leave to approach your
throne, and to intreat your Majesty's royal attention
whilst with the humility of dutiful ihbjeds, we lay
before your Majesty what at present most immedi
ately affects us in the spirit and tendency of the pub
lic measures now depending; and the anxiety we
feel at tlie naked and expoled date in which tin's
country will be left, by draining it of the nation il
troops, as well as at the danger and disgrace attend
ing thecate treaties for foreign mercenaries, whose
latitude is inch as to provide the means of introdu
cing a foreign army even into this realm.
We cannot, Sir, without horror, look forward
to that dismemberment of the empire; that increase
of the national debt, and of burthenfome taxes'
that lols of our moll valuable resources; those dis
tresses of our merchants and manufacturers; those
deficiencies of the revenue; that effufion of the blood
of our countrymen and brethren; that failure of
public credit, and those dreadful calamities and
convulsions which mull follow a civil war so begun
and purlued, wliofe extent no wisdom can forefee
We humbly conceive that no people can be bound
to lurrender their rights and liberties as a return
for protection. The colonies have fought our bat
tles with us, and in the last war they io far exceed
ed then abilities, that tliis nation thought it just
and necessary to make tliem an annual compensati
on; and even now driven to open hostilities in their
own defence, they are willing (their charters bei^
inviolably iecured) to continue to us all those ad
vantages of a regular and exclusive commerce, to
which we have long owed our opulence and pros
perity. And we have every assurance which m 11 in
their situation can fafely give, that, if alked as r '-
men, they are willing to go farther, and to afford
the exhausted state of the revenue of this country
such reasonable voluntary aid as their abilities will
permit provided that their contributions ar c unali
enably applied to relieve that diftrets which is r] ie
only fair and politic foundation of requiring ih.m
and that neither their aids, nor our owL finkin,
funds, shall be any longer perverted from a public
benefit, and misapplied to the purpose of corrupti
on, instead of redeeming the debts of the nation
according to the firft wife and just infticution.
Indulge but, Moll Gracious Sovereign, the hu
manity and dignity of your own royal di:pofrion,
and our prayers will be granted. We implore the
extension of your Majesty's justice and mercy to
wards that continent which, when arbiter of
terms of peace, it was your Majelly's own determi
nation to prefer to every other computation for all
the expences of the last war.
We humify and earneflly beseech your Majesty,
that the mod solemn, clear di/lind, and unambL
guous, fpeciheation of those jud and honorable
terms, which your Majesty with both Houses of
Parliament mean to grant to the colonies, may
precede the dreadful operations of your armam
Every color and fufpiciop of injuflice and oppr ffion
will then be removed from the proceedings of the
mother country; and, if those just and honor dole
terms are not submitted to, your Majesty wid
doubtedly be enabled to meet what will di n te
rebellion, with the zeal ms hearts and Tads {
determined, loyal, and united people.
June 8, 1776.
Numb. LXXII.