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London, England, 1804-02-01 00:00:00

TESTS.

(COPY CIRCULAR.)
My Coto, H-7.oeball, „ran% 2 ,
As in the event of any of the Volunteers in the 'County
Under yon: Grace's charge being either placed on perthanenr
pay and duty or ordered cut on actual service, they are to be
subject to military discipline, and to all t,ie provisions con-
tained in any aet of Parliament tor the punishment of Mu-
tiny and desertion, by any Articles of ‘var made in pursuance
thereof; in all cases whatever; it appears to be expell'ent
that your Grace should lose no time in direcling the Com-
mandants of the different Corps, in the case of their being so
called out, to cause the Articles of War to be 'read to their
Corps, as soon after their first assembling as may be prattica-
ble, and to repeat the same from time to time as opportunity
may be given, in the manner practised in the Militia and Re-
gular Forces. I have the honour to he,
My Lord,
Your most obedient humble SerVant,
His Majesty's :Lieutenant of the C. YORE,
County of Sussex.
PURSUANT to the above order, I do hereby diren that all
Commanding Officers of Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps
within the County of Sussex, do pay due obedience thereto.
RICHMOND, &c.

Go2dwood, janualy 27, 1804.

The following Letter has been sent in circulation
to Captains of Companies in the Volunteer &rvice
Aro. 76, ;Yew-street, Hanover-spa, e, yen?. 23.

SIR,

The experience I have had of the attention and persever_
ante of the several Corps of Volunteers within my DistriCl4
and the anxiety they unremittingly have shewn to perfea
them-selves indiscipline, fully assures me that they win poy
ad attention to the tbilowing Instructions, reccrnmencled
to
their adoption by Gen the Earl of HARRINGTON; inure par.
ticularly as those instructions maniti,,tly tend to render their
discipline more complete, and of course their exertions more
efficacious to the great cause in which we are all .eng,aged.--
exertions which have placisd the Citizens of this Metropolis
in an honourable and respectable light, far exceeding any re.
cord in History.
Ist, The General recommends, when a Regiment is march-
ing in line, that no Officer gives diredions but the Officer
commanding.
ad, That the Regiments level well, and remain sofiicient-
ly long on the present, for that purpose.
3d, That they may be accustomed to charge on a line of
markers, and that they advance for that rfurpose with ported
arms, not bringing down their arms to a charge, till witi;in
ten paces of the markers, close to which they are to he hait
4th, That the Battalion Companies be piadisyd occ.,i•on-
ally to cover the front on extended riles; to
and to cover themselves by banks, trees, &c. as pLietised by
Light infantry.
sth, That in marching in column, the Regiments he
Coined to enlarge and diminish the front or their (1:7;6: ,:15,
taking it up from front to rear (except when onkred to do it
at the same moment), and that these changes be moue
iv, without loss of distance, and exactly in the same man-
ner, from front to rear. •

6th, That in deployments of Columns by Coin panie'3, the
Captains halt and front the Companies. That. in deploy-
ments of grand Divisions a mounted Field-Uk2icer does tiLit
business.

jth, That in marching in line, the heads are not turned ;
that the men do not press to the centre; that the Leading
Serjeants he six paces in front and no more; and that the
Commanding Officer be in the rear of the centre, at full
iwelity paces from the rear rank.
1 have the Honour-to be,
Sir, your obedient humble Servant,
HENRY HARNAGE,
Inspeßing Field- Officer, London District,