The Sun.
London, England, 1803-12-22 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A MEMSER OF THE

CORPS.

• 4f Nov, X3l 1393."
You will no doubt wonder what have been
doing at Buxton at this timeiof the.yrr, I hap_
puma to be one of about 4so of our Regiment who
passed a week at that place, fur the purpose of per.
feeling ourselves in the rifle exercise. , Otir duty
was
,Very harassing, and has given us a•tolerable
sample. of the hardships of a winter campaign., On
this day se'nnight we,set.out finm Marehister, un.
der a very heavy
;fall of :snow,; which i continued,
without intermission,t ill we reached bishley,
tatice of thirteen miles, and only half of our, route,
Towards evening a severe frost set in, .00,4 ren-,
dcred the road across the hills almost iMpesiable..
Several of the corps fainted through cold and.fa.
tigue. Some were brought up by the rear guard„
and others, who were unable to proceed, were left
et public-boosts .on the way. The,onlypfficers
who were permitted to mount their chargers, were
the Adjutant and the Serjeant.major, and:.they
wee obliged to alight and leave .their horse§ tu be
brought up by their servants; who arrived, Loge:
titer with our baggage-waggons, which set, out at
an early bout, sometime in the night. Our'Colo.
net,. who unites to the manly spirit, of a Soldier the
coneiliatiog mannet.s of a Gentleman, marched at'
our head the
.whole way in his plain undress uniform,
without even his top.coa,t, as-! he understood many,
Gentlemen were unprovided with, this covering.
Nothing could exceed the civility we every where
exoerieneed on our route. In going, we• bad an
excellent dinner provided for us, at the expense of
a Gentleman who is related to an, Officer in the.
Corps ; and on our retorn, a similar entertainment
was given by Mr. YATes, Father of an Officer in
the Bury Corps, which is now brigaded with our's.
The Cayalrylofantry, and Rifle corps, in every
town and yillage through. which we marched, wire
&awn 'up to salute its, and, some of them accom-
panied us severalmiles "
" A.r Buxton, notwithstanding,the depth of the
snow, and the severity Of the weather, we were
exercised from eight in the morning to four in the
afternoon every day, except Sunday ; so. that.,,l,
cannot say that a march of twenty-six mike, under
a foil knapsack, and the enctimbrance of a rifle and'
sword, and the other discohragements we had to
encounter, was the most fatiguing day's work we
had to perforM. I ought not to 'omit, that we were
twice summoned to arms by the bugle in the night;
the one time kept in the cold and wet on the parade
two hours ; and the Other, marched six -miles out,
of town on a pretended alarm: On Saturday' and
Sunday we. practised 'firing with ball at targets
there were a great number of good shots thrown in,
and the targets, though not much larger than com-
mon table.mats, were perforated like sieves.
In
this state they were carried, by Serjeants, at the
head of each Company, and deposited in' the Or.
derly-ruoin. The first day we shot at'the distance
of 130 yards from the target, and the next 180."

HINTS TO LORD LIEUTENANTS,
OR IitGULATIONS FOY. bract/a CONSTADIAS.

ALL bodies of men intended to ae3 in offensive
or defensive operatips, should he uniformly clothed,
and regularly trained to the use of some weapon of
defence, and l►kewise to advance and retreat in or.
der) as the nature of the service may require.

Uniformly Clothed—became it gives them con-
fidence, and distilcuisbes them from the 'Able,—
The tioilorat shuultl be plain and cheap, viz:. a blue
jacket, red cuffs and eullar, yellow button (cypher
L. V..C.), blue pantaloons, round hat and leather,
half bouts or gaiters.

Arran.--
,A pike ; staff six fret, head two feet
six inches long,;, the head to the off; and to be
carried in a scabbard; it will serve as a 'sword. .
The Pike is tecounnanded, ',tonic it is an _ex..
eellent weapon of defence, and its use 'soot, lcarneff.
Formation.—They should be formed into corn.
prunes, .not exceeding, 60, not less than 40 !nen,
each of which should be'cominanded by a Captain,
asstted by three Solent's. Na thine should be
hart in forming some Regulations lot training and
eluthing this useful body of men.
WIT

A melancholy aceident happened at Brixham on
lay'.. Mr. G. Sanders, a respeCtable Fisherman
and Hot of that place, with four of his appren.
tices, in the morning, ventured out in an open Boat•
to preserve his herring nets, which were moored at,
the north part .of the Bay, it blowing very heavy
S. E. accompanied with a shocking-sea.: Just
in the eet of laying hold of the nets, a violenteea
4truck the Boat, and Capsliett her; they were all
seen Struggling in the water for some dine, when
three 'of them sunk. Mr. Sanders and his eldest
apprentice remained on an oar half an hour after,'.
when (h young man was also washed Off andfdrown.
ed. Mr. Sanders being a most remarkable aftive
strong man,' and one of themost able swimmers in
these 1,305, conxinued on the oar fOr near an hour.
longer, clic sea' running mountains high, and no
Boat able to go to their -sssi.oanee. lhe'Surgeon
at ,the Hospital of P.tingtun, utkiers on the.
beach, anxiously waited his swirritning jq, when
three tremendous seas successively struck him,off
the oar, which he as 'often regained ; at last, his
he quitted his hold,. and
strength being' exhausted,
the:ttai came on shdre, and he, in the land wash,
sunk to 'rise no more in this world. He has left a
willcisv and eight young children to bewail: his ions.
lamented; a number of neigh—
bours were yesterday and to-day sweeping for their
dead bodies, but have found Only one of the youngest
apprentices.
The average price of grown or Muscovorio Sugar,
computed from the Returns Made for the week ,end.
ing the t4th day of Dectunber, t X 03,, is Forty.trwa
Sbillinal and P,nre Fartking. per Unwired
cuisig4ll.

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