The Sun.
London, England, 1801-06-19 00:00:00

MILITARY COLLEGE.

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WIIOEVER. is at.all aeowainted with`tli, relative
situation of Great Britain and tilt other European
Powers, and is interested in the futufe destiny of
the former State, cannot have avoided feeling'very
great satisfaftion on seeing Parliament giving its sane.
tion and its support to the Military Colleg establish-
ed at Beaconsfield. The Fdn,ls which have been
• i
assigned by l'arliament fur the stypert 01 t,, will
admit of its being put on a more extensive scale,
and a more solid foundation, than it has hitherto LI

Although our Troops have at all-tinies performed
an honourable part, and althotigh they have furnish-
ed. us • with Generals worthy to.command them, it
cannot be dissembled that this is rather owing to
their courage and to their patriotism, than to the
possession of any Military mewls equal to those of
the Enemy with whoM they had to contend. We
have certainly been stir more than. half a Century
greatly behind hand with the other Powers of Europe
in every thing relative to the arts of Encampthent,
and of Fortification, the application .of Engineering
to. Field Service, 'the theory of great Movementa of
an Army—in short, in all that belongs to the Duties
of the General Staff. For sixty yeats•Europe con-
fined' irself, 'in its militaty Career, to the pursuit,
more or less closelY, of the Systeni introduced by
GusTAvys'AboLpHus,..and'ciitriQd >to the highest
degree of perfeCtion by LT a EitNE, MONTE CUCUI:-
MARLOOROUGH, CO :t DE, CATINAT, and Vi
LARS. FREDERICK appeared, and his genius
mediately invented other means; and chalked otit
new roads in .which all hastened to tread, and the
young soldiers in other Countries were modeled
upon the plap laid down by him. Where so much
was to be reaped, it is reasonable to suppose that
much was • sown.- A great number of Officers were
formed, particularly in Fraike and Austria, who
supplied the Generals with good Aide.:de.Camps,
aode what .was of mach greater importance, with
an intelligent Military Staff, the mast valuable and
the most indispensable part of an army. It is well
kuownhow tuncliSuwo R ROW regretted his inability
to, -find, this grand desideratum in the RusSian
Army, and that he considered his Troops as incapr
able from the wantofir, of acing without the assist-
ance of art Ally who was provided with, it. Amid
this almost general emulation which was excited in
the Continental 'Powers; our own Country enjoying
its peculiar felicity, confiding in its strength, and
sensible of itseMaritime'Superiority, relied almost
wholly on the.unimpeaehed valour of its .Troops,
and if it did ..not remain wholly stationary in the
career of improvement, it at least made mUch'less
strides • than other Countries. For the plaO of bring-
ing us to a level with, and even of making U 3 Qua-
strip others, we -are indebted' to ourpreseni Com-
mander in Chief. It was he who planned it, and it
is he who. hes incessantly laboured to carry it into
circa. . All the improvements whieh could be made
inamediattly, such as those which tel to the
instrudion, the discipline, and the equipment of the
Soldier, he had made: blot he was sensible that there
were still others which time alone could produce.
and bring to maturity. in this view of the subjed, •
he laid 'tire Olati of the Military College,' the exist-
eOce of which ha's been eanfirmed by• Parliament,
and which' is now' bectrrie really a National ,objeeL
HencefOrth we -shall no' longer have to envy the
SChools of Potirlam, Vienna, and 'Paris'---that of
Beaconsfield' will be a Outset',' fertiliied by the.
patronage of the Country, by the autKority Of the
Commander in Chief, by the care of the Secre-
tary at ,War, who, when proposing thin important
measure to the House of Commons, confirmed the
advantageous opinion which the Public had formed
of him, .and shoved himself, fit to co-operate with -
the Administration of which he formS part, in exer-
tions to promOte the honour and the prosperity of
his. Country: : •
The objedions which have been made to the esta-
blishment of this college, appear to us to be ail of
them enfbended, and some, we must say, even ab-
surd. To urge as'an'argurnent against our improv_
ing our military science, that we 'haVetO. boast in '
history of a, Marlborough, is as if it should be
that the PruSsians are to neglea
,the same
study because they have a Frederick, or that the
Austrians need not give themselveS- any uneasiness
on the subjed as long as they shall pOsse .s the Areh-
duke Ci-inkees. . it is precisely becanSe we cannot
'flatter ourselves` with alwayi totitiOg a general of
the first rank or ability at the head of our
armiei, that, we ought to endeavour to make up
fbr the' deficicoey by the diSsemination of 'in-
streCtion a non our officers, and .by bringing'
to perfefflon the different elements which con-
the ttrt of War. The ernalation excited
by a ' public school; is, besides, that' which is
best calculated to give, birth to, and to bring for-
ward superior talents, nor can. they, besides; be of
any great utility to their Country, until they find
proper imtruinents'prepared and ready li* employ-
merit. A skilful Pilot nay ceilenlate on the piety
of his Vessel, if he has on board` 'Seamen' who a are,'
.iMe: to 'give him assistance, but he would be bold
indeed, who should venture to a4sert, that he could ,
• in
experienced
Crew, this with the asttaoe,z of an
Crew, however zealous, and however courageous
'they Might be.

The case is the with respea 'to another ob_
je(f.tion which partly arises oat if the Harmer. It
haa.been alledg,rd,- that the pi'esent French
received no elementary instruaion, and that. they
were yet able to defeat the. most experienced Gene.
'rats
.of other Nation4.' This proposition, which
proves the contrary of what tliasfkivho advance it
are desiroui of inferring. from it, wear`', neverthe_
lust, at first ;Iglit, some degree of plausNlity i dad
hence it is, that, it has' been so.ofeen used by the ig-
norant and unrefleaing. Nothing can be nrote'f.ilse
thin it, anil the coroequence!: deduced from it. In
teiligent men have long compleatly undertaoa tin
apparent problem.
.All art agreed, both in Frince
t.. 1 in other countries, that It was to the grtat
number of trained. Officers who remained in the.
Freud-, Army, and to the perfcetion to which the
Seicnco, Enginceilng, dad Artillery,and the ciu ries
of the Staff ban been brought, that the French Gene.
rats were inklebted for aeir success in 1792 ar.d
1793, and it is to-be observed, that those who- coin..
mantled chitin tv.-o veari, were old Genera!,
under the former Govefantect, Those who succeeded

tl-4,!.n. in 06:T1:nand. ha,l the a,l,,llytairt, ;,f
:the ;:••,;!;::,:
rienee of two Ciirup;!igns ;:nd twsz, aetave
vice, it is well known, Will cOnvey rtr,7.-,e:nstruCtion
:than ten'ycars perform: o;7e The
latter were, besides, for the ,•,rated and
directed „by the Officers 6.f , -,,!
Corps Of 'Engineer:4-j who ‘vere, .
the ablest in Etaripe, and all :!.
admitted, remained in France' at th :
gration of other Ohieers. n !,liort, ,:s ufle •
ncral observation appli,'able to tiff , h:!
which ,We believe has yet ss
from its being astonishir:2; t!'sat It,.
War has produced, fifteen or: tc,venfv:
Conimanders in Chief, it-is for a
nishment that it has not produced ag I :,:r number.
the French ha'l'e had one.
mies, composing a force foot
all the energies of the Governtnei,
try were tiried to War :;• :and for tcn
,
they carried it On.. Tirre is diercHl..:, i.tanny ii i
matter for astonishment, that a state of :•
rhingS, a small' number of ludiVii.ll4:ils q:4- at th,s!ii•
di :posit' greater Physicals Power than 'tl advers.t.
ries,, should' hiwe been favoured
would, *sides, require a treater spa, :s; we can
allot to the inquiry; to c.:„outdne into the other eitimel'
of. :the triumph;) of the French Republic. One:
thing, however, is Clear, that they have. not •be :n
otving to that species of indifferenee to whieh th,
Opiiosition code vour to, reduce us 'upon' the subje..Y.
Tilre is a di-ad objeftiuri which the enoniii:s
this Institution hope to renl,.r poplar, a s it :flatters;
that attachment which our count.rytnen feel t )
Liberty, and which we trust • they will never lose.
We cannot, however, discover in what manner this
institution . can wound' or endanger that I.rtitLtble
hl ssing resulting from our Constitution. It wa;
with arms' in their hand's that our Ancestors' acquir-
ed it, and it is by the: same means that we insist id-
timately preserve it. The Science of War hits.al-
ways decided the fate of Nat cis. It was !ay
superiorityof their taffies • that the Greeks dekated
and destroyed the
,immense armies of the Kings of
Persia. It was by placing the I\lilitarY Pinfessiol
above all others,: tTvat•the little Republic Of Sparta
preserVed its Liberty', its Territory, and its Vir.
toe. Thebes waS• at no period more Powerful nor
n.ore free than it was during the temporary splendor
which it received frofn EP ANO NONDAI. It was-bv
the superiority of weapons and•diSeipline that the
Romans conquered the World, and it cv.ts only by the
invention of the Legion, and the sui,etiority whi,h
it boasted over the Phalanx, that they' were able to
triumph over Greece: and Asia'. " ft qva
says VEa ET S, theti bbpired theNVlVii) idea if
tbe Lesivey"--Revertiog tt modern history,' we
'-hall not find a single Nation who owes the acqui.
sition :or the recovery of its liberty to any other
cause than that of having understood 'or pl.:in:lse:l
ate art of War better than its adversetric Of our-
selves we shall only observe, that the grea4est de_
gree of perldlion which could be intrndoccd. into
our, Army, could never be injurious to Libert;, for
the art of llar relates only to foreign
mere j;,ce, whichhas nothing to do with art, is the
only thing of which Despots stand in need, to make
men ;:lavea, or to keep them so.

AIV REPORT.

BENCH, (UILDIIALL, juxr, 17.

ri!Arcr. v. KUNO,
,ESI;2,

• TH is was, an Aftion of Troyer,' to recover a stun
exceeding Soot, brought by the Assignees of a Mrs.
PELLISTEK, under the following circumstances : The
Dcfendant, JOHN KIN o,.had ad v :weed "CA ral MIS of
flUpley to Mrs, PE L i ts/rk, for which 4ht: had signed
V.r.irrants ofAttorney, on whfch Warrants the De-
lend.int had entered up judgment, and ~old off all her
household furniture. The Plaintiff insited the sale
was illegal, inasmuch as it was awl' ,üb:equent to
the commission of the :IA of B:mkrupt,:.y. To esta.
hii;ll this, it was necessary to prove four separate
loett, ; uamely, the ad of trading, the aa of. Bank,
,ruptcy, the petitioning creditor's, debt, and the sub
sequent sale ; all of which.were ascertained to, the
satisfation of the Court.

Mrs. PELiosi F. it, a woman of seventy four year;
of age, ' depo4cd, that being disteessed for nacnn,..;,v,
she.. had applied to the Defendant for assistance, ,who
h:id mid .her that he would treat, het mother,
and that she might repos', unliniited confidence, hi
him. She then stated, that„she had borrowed of him,
ytyi,.nis times, suits. of mpney', for whicjt she had
p.iid him interest, particularly in one instanee,
where he had adyanccal he;. Lsol,. for which, she had
4ven him a kind,
,ac,knowlebing a sum of 2001
•
and in anotlwr, where he had lent her soh fir
week,, and had received si:z. guineas for 4i-6 accom-
modation. .It,also appeared, that at the time of the
lale, a rumber,,of articles were. bon;:y;lit in eonii,
rl,„!r.zthly Under their .v ii ic, particularly a pkce
futnirtiN fit tong-04;0as, stated to im Worth more
than forty, ‘vhieh'waS afterward.; Iwnic. to 14,1 y
LA U C th,it
The Jury gave tt Verdi for the Plaintilr----Da..
mages foal, tk, u;:l„ing. the e%pences of the sale.

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dlogetous which broin!it Si-,.
LpoN na() zo.d ag,,inst ti inch Mr.
Gorily I hag gi I'CU hi in;.;ch troobeits ctsi
inonish he, nitwit., by, hich this
whom: oriigin unknoWn c,ll that
an Kgyptian, tO pats, i, tiut ni
,C VOS ou niti,equipoges exceed in splt‘n,
tioilr every ti.jog (bay, h.is liestl seen in that guar-
it; !!is l'A)tert.:Eltrilews are impel At his own
has I)..iih 1 inlg,,ificriit i)per,l notiy,e iii
which w a:. opened f.i
r the first time on the
'13;1
) 11lay I:pwaril3 of
cr,),,vil,d to sex gratliTto
however, *ha lkWr4cive- whom
w:%11111,.' str:in3er honotirtA with his
tie ri,rh: of aaml,.ision to -a 'BOY; W4S Sold for sso
Ft:A ire,

V.redue:o.ly night the sti;)l,st of AT. Spro:t,
F: iu the King's-road, weit
br.,ke open, and robt:eti of a quainity of wearitz
,
apFatei UciOnal:Z w the ~ervamd,

From the LONDON GAZLITE, Jane i 6, 1801.

11:zr-Ope, Ysixe

Ist Regitrient of Life Guards, the Right lion. Lord Pelham
Thomas Pelhatn Clinton to be Cornet and Sub-Lieute-
nant, viee FoclaeS; deceased • Algernon Disney, Cent. to
be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, b' purchase, vice Fraser,
promoted.
2.(1 Ditto; Lieutenant Sr Samuel Hannay, Bart. to be Cap..
tain of a Troop, without purchase, yl,:d Smith, who re-
tires. Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Horace Noel to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir Samuel Hannay Cornet
Charles Chad, t rom the Royal. Regiment of Horse. Guards,
to be Cornet and4Sub- Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Noel.,
Royal Regiment of liorse Guards, Philip Baniond, Gent to
he Cornet, by purchase, vice. Chad, retrieved to the Life
Guards.
t;th Regiment of Light Dragoons.—Ta be Lleutenants, with-
out purchase, Lieutenant Charles !hide, from the Half.:
pay of the late Oth Foot. Cornet Henry Spooner. Cor,
net Joseph 1%1.1cl:well. Cornet T. A. Gibson. Cornet
John Dickens. Cornet Francis Hurt. Comet R. W.
Howard V yse, from the Ist Dragoon's.
7th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant Frederick A; Hervey to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Hallibtirton, who retires.
9th Ditto, Ensign D. Vandepant to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, lice Cumberlicige, removedtb the 19th Light
Dtagoons
moth Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant Therms Hunter to be
Captain, by purchas, vice I lipkins, who retires.
' 60th Ditto, Captain Robert Drummond to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice De Vos, promoted Cornet thc,•'.l ton henry
Murray. from the 16th Light firagoonS, to be Lieutenant,

• .
by purchase, rice Sankey, removed to the 7zd Ifoot.
Uth Ditto, Captain Islionvis Blakeney to hz. Major, by pur-
chase, vice Gordon, promoted in the 831.11. I Dot.
67th Ditto, Ensign Joon Al' Nlahri, from the .10th Foot, to
Le Ensign, by purchase, vice W ain,w right, promoted in the
ritii Foot., •
69th Ditto, ""Ensign Jacob Glyn-Curler to bz Lieutenant, vice
A tkinkin, deceased. "
89th Ditto, Ensign Jnhnston St. Leger to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Sinclair, who retires. Samuel Wilson,Gent.
to be ENign, by purchase, vice King, promoted:
93(1 Ditto, Ensign:Alex. Sutherland to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase,• vice Maclean,- removed to the 4zd • Foot.
Henry Allison, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Stitherland. •
2d West India Regiment, John Kinross, Gent. to be Ensign,
vice Moore, deceased.
4th Ditto, James Clarke, 'Cent. to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Balguy, removed:to the,s7th Foot.
Royal Garrison Battalion, Cornet Andrew. Colter, from the
half-pay ef.Tarleton's Legion, to be Lieutenant, vice Edie,
• removed to. the Invalids. •
kyal.. Manx Await Infantry.

Lieutenant William Mitcintosh, from the 2.d. Manx reneibles,
Po be Ensip, vice llarnu (It-ceased. •
Ensign William Macintosh to be Adjutant, yiee Mbore, de—
ceased. ,

Royal illid-Llthian Fidunterr Cavalry.

Captain Robert Dundas to be Lieutenant- Colontl-Comman-
daril„. vice Trotter, _wbo

Argyllshire Volurtieer 14airlv.

Lieutenant Duncan Campbell be Captain, vice Donald
Campbell, who resigns.,
Ensign Duncan Campbell to be First Lieutenant, vice Camp.
•bell. ,
Jolla Sinclair, Gent. to be InSign, vice D.:Campbell.

BideArd Vamitieers.

ThOmas Priditarn, Gent. to be First Lieutenant.

• Brodfca Volunteer.
Lieutenant William Skelton to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice
Sharpe, promoted. , •

rallartder Volunteer:.

Captain John Buchanan to be Major- Conimandant.
• Clarencr, or Cardigan Polunteers.
David Davies, Gent. to be Adjutant.
Cbristebureb Volunteers. . . .
Lieutenant Arthur Quartley to be Captain, vice Hillman, who

resigns.
Second Lieutenant R. W. Slea. to be 'First Lieutetant.
Seccnitl Lieutenant John Elliott to be first Liautenant.

North Drvon 141w:hers.
rohn Shopland, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Edg-
combe.

,Exeter Volunteers.

Lieutenant.iit Peter Radford to be Captain, vice Black.loll, who
'lsaac Rose Dale, Cent. to be Second" Lieutenant.