The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

'the, tiucet flowage!' vinted the Princess Augusta
ysterday at Olarence Muse, St. Jamesis. The Princess
Atiguita after-walls acaUinisatilesi her Majesty in a dtive
baroudhe and foUr.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, &iendeil by
Baron Knesebeck, honoured the Duke of Wellington with
their company at dinner last evening at Apsley House.
Their iTtoval Highnesses afterwards accompanied the
nobleDuEe td the pertoririlaiied the concert of Ancient
Music. His Grace, was the Direei& fol‘ the eVenjnif.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe 'Weirder,
accompanied by the Rev, J. R. Wood, visited the Duke
of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House.
The Earl of etiand, Mr: Wallace, M. P., and nr.
James, had interviews with the Marquis of Nornianby yep-
terday at the Colonial Office.
The Earl of Lonsdale, Mr. Dashmood, and Mr. W.
Clay, had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday at
the Home Office.

GRAND MILITARY INSPECTIO
AT WINDSOR.

It having been announced that a grand review of the
cavalry and infantry regiments, stationed in the neigh.
bourhoud of Windsor, would take place yesterday in the
Home-park, in the presence of her Majesty, his Imperil
Highness the Grand Duke of Russia, Prince William
Henry of the Netherlands, the Duke of Wellington, Lord
11111, &c., the town of Windsor was from an early hour
of the morning in a state of excitement, from the great
influx of persons by the railroad from the metropolis, and
from the surrounding neighbourhood, to view the antici-
pated grand military spectacle. Shortly after nine o'clock
the 14th Regiment of Light Hussars, under the command
of Lieutenant- Colonel Townsend, marched into the town
from Hounslow Barracks, and took up a position on the east
side of the Home Park, and about the same time two com-
panies of the 45th Regiment of Infantry, under the command
of Major Armstrong, entered the park for the purpose of
keeping the ground. From'the smallness of their numbers
it soon became manifest that the announced review would
not take place ; and on inquiry, our reporter ascertained,
that in consequence of the small number of troops in the
vicinity, the 45th being composed principally of recruits, no
review would take place, but that a grand military inspec-
tion of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) and the above regi-
ment of cavalry would take place at eleven o'clock. About
ten o'clock the gates of the Home Park were thrown open
for the admission of the public, by means of tickets, and in
a short time a large number of carriages, filled with ele-
gantly dressed ladies, took up positions in front of the
slopes under the Castle-terrace. About the same hour
the Royal Horse Guards ( Blue) matched from their bar.
racks, headed by their band, in splendid state dresses, and
under the command of Major Richardson, took up a posi-
tion on the west side of the Home Park, the bands of the
two regiments continuing to play national and enlivening
airs, until eleven o'clock, when they formed into triple
lines, extending from west to east, with a front towards the
windows of the Castle.
At a quarter-past eleven o'clock his Imperial Highness
the Grand Duke of Russia, with a suite consisting of
Princes Dolgorowki and Bariatinski, Counts Orloff,
Leiven, Stroganoff, and Tolstoy, General Kaveline,
Colonel Yourjbitzch, and accompanied by Prince
William Henry of the Netherlands, who was attended by
Captain Arriens, his Aid de Camp, and M. Pat..
kul, left the Castle on horseback attended by Lord Hill,
the Commander of the Forces, Colonel Sir George Quen.
tin (who rode her Majesty's favourite charger), Col. Ca-
vendish, Lord Torrington, Hon. Mr. Murray, and followed
by the Earl of Errol, and Lord Uxbridge in a pony chaise,
and the Ladies Paget and others of the Ladies of her Ma-
jesty's Household in two pony phaetons, each drawn by four
grey horses, the retinue being brought up by a number of
gentlemen attired in the. Windsor Uniform, Royal Grooms,
&c. Having passed down the Front Park and proceeded
round the slopes, the Royal party entered the Home Park
at twenty-five minutes past eleven o'clock, and proceeded
to the front of the lines, where they were received by the
respective bands playing the first stanza of the National
Anthem, which was immediately changed to the Russian
March. At that time the Castle Terrace was thronged
by it fashionable company, and her Majesty and her illus-
trious,mother, the Duchess of Kent, occupied one of the
centre windows of the building, from whence they were
afforded an ample view of the whole of the manoeuvres.
The inspection commenced by the imperial cortege
taking up a position fronting the Terrace, which the
troops passed in slow time, after which they again passed
in quick time, then in file, and having trotted and cantered
past, wheeled into two lines beyond the original ground.
Both lines then retired, the 14th regiment by alternate
troops, and covering the retreat and skirmishers. The
14th then called in skirmishers, and returned by threes
from the right of squadrons through the intervals of the
Blues, and formed a line in support. The Blues then
attacked, supported by the 14th, after which the Blues
retired in open columns from the right, and formed a'
line to the right on the leading troop, the 14th cover-
ing the movement by skirmishers ; the skirmishers were
then recalled. The line of Blues then advanced and
charged the front to the left on the first squadron of the
14th. The troops then formed into close column, and
deployed on the march into two lines on the leading
square of each regiment, after which the 14th attacked
supported by the Blues. The 14th then retired in open
column upon the left, and formed into line on the left,
abutting on the leading troop ; they then returned in open
column from the left of the regiment, and formed one
column, taking ground to the left, formed lines to the
van on the fourth iquare of the Blues, and advancing in
double colbintts from tlie.centre, formed a line to the front
(on the march), advancing at a canter, and forming in
perfect order.

The inspection finished at one o'clock, and during the
manoeuvres his Imperial Highness repeatedly galloped from
one portion of the ground to the other, and at its conclu-
sion expressed in most flattering language his sense of the
high proficiency, of discipline the troops had attained,
About a quarter past one o'clock the Royal party re-
turned to the Castle, from thence they proceeded, about
half-past three o'clock, accompanied by her Majesty; the
Grand Duke being on the Queen's right hand, and Prince
William of the Netherlands on the left, Lord Melbourne
and Lord Alfred Paget following up the Long-walk to
Virginia Water, from whence they returned about seven
o'clock.

COL. NAPIER ON IMPRESSMENT,

I am persuaded, with regard to impressment, that,
constituted as the House of Commons now is, and con-
sidering the state of public opinion and feeling, it will
be impossible to obtain the necessary sanction of the
Legislature to resort to it. It will be, therefore, by
enormous bounties that the Navy will have to compete
with the merchant service in manning our ships, unless
measures arc adopted now, in time of peace, to
secure the necessary supplies of men, with sufficient
quickness for the preparatory times of war. Of all the
atrocious acts of wickedness, inhumanity, injustice,
nay, bad policy, ever committed by a free government
upon one of the most invaluable classes of its subjects,
none can surpass in wickedness and atrocity the law of
impressment. The frequency of the crime has, in
some measure, habituated our minds to contemplate it
with blunted feelings ; and even the dazzling glory
which the romantic eourage and devotion of these vic-
thus of injustice have thrown over the pages of the his-
tory of their country, served but to enfeebl their claims
to be considered as subjects of that free country. Is
it possible, that under a constitutional government,
where the meanest article of property, or a foot of
ground, cannot be taken from any other class of men
tor the public good, without giving them a tenfold value
in return, much less personal liberty attacked, that
solitary class, upon whom so much of the safety, wealth,
,
glory, and power of the nation depend, can be torn from bosom of their families, amidst the cries of pa-
rents, wife,
of ire ; forced children,l brothers,
therq sisters, and every fond
association to serve for an unlimited
period, through all the chances of war ; subjected to
its dangers and privations, and with wages for his la-
bours far inferior to his comrade in the merchant ser-
vice ; and subjected, moreover, to the bitter severities
of a capricious military discipline, and where, in not
very remote times, the severest punishment could
be inflicted, and the noblest fellow that, cutlass in
hand, had ever boarded an enemy's vessel, could be
branded and disgraced at the sudden impulse (with-
out a show of examination or trial) of any untried
youngster that had got the command of a vessel ? I
have been with the British sailor, commanding and asso-
ciating with him, under a variety of circumstances, and
to an extent that very few of my brother officers can
have witnessed. I have, in our service, in time of war,
gone round the decks for volunteers when any boating
expedition, or other service to be executed by volunteers
was projected, and the difficulty was in every case to
choose from the number that presented themselves, each
alleging his claim by " Jack went the last time !"
" You promised me the next !" "I am always the first
to vulunteer!"

BRITISH SEAMEN.
severe discipline
In the great mutinies that occurred during the
war of the French revolution, when the safety of England
was shaken to its base, the order and regularity, and
observed amongst the mutineers,
and the total absence of any cruel act, even to
the most obnoxious of their officers, were strongly
illustrative of the character of these men. The
genuine patriotic feeling exhibited by the north sea fleet,
when in the power of the mutineers, is equally remark-
able, who on hearing a report that the Dutch fleet
had left their port, prepared immediately to go out to
attack them, and would have done so gloriously, bad
the report been true. We have seen that, in the mo-
ment of the approaching battle, no sense of injustice,
or hatred to the service, has prevented the sailor from
nobly doing his duty to his country ; we have seen
also that, when goaded on by tyranny and excessive
severity, or wrong, that no certainty of the severest
punishment, from a powerful and deceitful Government,
sooner or later falling upon their heads,, has restrained
them from resorting to desperate measures to redress
themselves.--
Neivg Monthly.

The
after
Nvai le
dpcsos St.s
ma gbee ofn eoi gu
about to
George Steam Packet
hset,danyes.ar Company's steam
ship Sirius arrived, from St. Petersburgh, last evening,
fall I—nor indeed by the rude hands of railway contractors,
but—under the magic, though harmless, hammer of that
Prince of Auctioneers, George Robins. The account of
this cite, is
the property by this celebrated master of the descriptive
will be found in another column ; and, from ita well-
known beauty, as well as from the classic associations con-
nected with it, we anticipate a well contested "bidding'
f 0 its proprietorship.—Bath the honour f' Bath and Chelten.
ip.—
ham Gazette.