menting the Pay of the Army, so as to meet the encreased rise in the comforts, and even necessaries of life.

The Editors have had the satisfaction of proposing in this work a plan for giving suitable incomes to General Officers, unprovided with regiments, who have not retired voluntarily upon half pay; and they have reason to think their suggestions will not be disregarded, particularly as a method is pointed out by which this most desirable object may be accomplished without any extraordinary expence to the state.

The press of matter requiring immediate attention has hitherto prevented the appearance of numerous interesting topics in the pages of the MILITARY PANORAMA, and where any disappointment has been occasioned by the non-insertion of several articles on their first coming to hand, the Editors trust to a liberal construction of the motives by which they are governed in the arrangement and conduct of their work.

It may now be proper to take a short view of the subjects which have already been submitted to public notice.

Biography, particularly of eminent living characters, is admitted to be equally instructive and useful as pleasing, and in selecting the memoirs already published, the Editors have been principally guided by this consideration. They felt it an in-cumbent duty to mark their respectful deference to the Illustrious Commander-in-Chief, in the outset of their literary labours; and at the same time a compliment which would prove acceptable to the Army, by commencing their biographical sketches, with a brief yet faithful abstract of His Royal Highness the Duke of York's military career.

Next in the order of the biographical notices, came the hero of the age, the pride and boast of his country, the Illustrious Wellington. In a life so replete with glorious actions it was found difficult to give a detailed account of His Lordship's services without encroaching on that province of the work which is devoted to the History of the Campaigns in the Peninsula. In the Narrative of these important events his merits will be found faithfully recorded for the admiration, not only of the present, but succeeding ages.

The services of a gallant veteran, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, K. B. claimed an early and marked attention.

Disdaining to employ the voice of flattery, and equally unwilling to sport with the feelings of the brave, it will be their object on every occasion to avoid giving a handle to calumny, but rather to heal the wounds inflicted by the wanton disregard of that honorable sentiment which so distinctly characterizes the members of the Military Profession. The fame of General Picton rescued from the unfounded charges by which he was almost overwhelmed, and rising above the efforts of political intrigue, of envy, and detraction, appeared in such a superior point of view, that the Editors eagerly courted the opportunity of doing that justice to his merits, which he was so long denied.

The splendid career of the Earl of Moira, endeared to his prince and to his country by the possession of a thousand amiable qualities,-liberal and hospitable to excess, and endowed with a high chivalrous sense of honour; that much respected young nobleman Lieut.-Gen. Lord Wm. Bentinck, who has frequently distinguished himself both in a military and political capacity ; the life of Lord Paget now Earl of Uxbridge, who is admitted to be the first cavalry officer in the British service; and of the departed hero Major-Gen. Le Marchant, presented copious materials for the pen of the biographer. From the biographies given it will be observed that the Editors do not confine their notices to the living; they will eagerly avail themselves of every occasion to pay a just tribute to departed merit

A leading article," the Campaigns in the Peninsula," has been prepared from authentic documents and reference to a periodical work of acknowledged merit; and the present volume brings these important events down to the conclusion of the first campaign, when the remains of Sir John Moore's gallant but ill-fated army embarked for England. The continuation of the narrative will be most particularly attended to, and it will be compiled from sources of information derived from the purest and most undoubted authority. The Editors therefore anticipate the satisfaction which the Army will receive from a plain and unreserved statement of occurrences, blended with no political or private feeling.

In reviewing the various military publications of the present day, they have discussed the subjects treated of with a rigid impartiality, and in language at which no writer could take offence.

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The Narrative of the Battle of Wagram, with the accompanying plans, were prepared for publication at an extraordinary expence, which will ever be disregarded by the Editors in their anxiety to render the MILITARY PANORAMA an acceptable Companion to Officers. In the conduct of the Poetical department, they have every reason to congratulate themselves. The want of room has alone prevented the appearance of several articles of genuine merit, written expressly for this work.

The Essay on the Military Systems of the British Empire will have served to prove that the resources of Great Britain, under proper management, are fully adequate to meet the utmost efforts of her enemies, and that by its insertion the Editors are desirous of calling the notice of Government to such improvements as will produce the beneficial effects of rendering the Military Institutions more perfect than in their present state.

From this retrospect of their exertions, the Editors of the MILITARY PANORAMA turn to the cheering prospect of the future, flattered by the encouragement they have already so liberally experienced. Anarrative of the recent Campaigns in Russia, the biography of the late General Sir John Moore, a succinct narrative of the origin and progress of the late disturbances in the Madras army, and several articles of the first interest and importance to Military Men, will appear in the early numbers of the Second Volume.

The General Orders issued from the Horse Guards, and all the Military Departments, with the Gazettes, will be regularly inserted down to the period of each number going to the press. All correspondence from the Theatre of War, and every article and essay on military points, will meet with due attention.

It is the wish of the Editors to give the most correct Obituary, with the Marriages and Births as they occur.

Finally, the utmost attention will be unremittingly paid to the beauty of the Typography and elegance of the Engravings, for which no expence has hitherto been spared, with a view of rendering the MILITARY PANORAMA the most finished and classical production of the present day.

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INDEX.

Battles, Rolica, 130; Vimeria, 225; Cam-Cossacks, a full account of. I. Cossacks

of the Bug. II. Tschuguyef Cossacks.
III. Cossacks of the Don. IV. the
Tschernomorski, formerly the Sapora-
gian Cossacks. V. The Uralian Cos-
sacks, and Calmucks of Stawropul,887.
Corunna, notes on, by a gentleman who
drew up a Narrative of the Operations
of Sir David Baird's division, 343
Charmilly, Colonel de, his arrival at Sir
John Moore's head-quarters in Spain,
&c. 358.

Bible Society, Military and Naval, 607. Camden, battle of, 302.

Correspondents, acknowledgments of their
favors at the commencement of each
No.

Commissariat Department, 595.
College, military, commissioners, 600.

vice, 38, 40, 42, 157, 158, 366, 468,
546, 547, 550.

Inns, bad accomodations of, soldiers bil-
letted on them, 462.

Judge-Advocate Gen.'s department, 600.

Commissary General of Musters depart-Inspectors of army clothing, 601.

of regimental colours, 601.
Inspecting Field Officers of yeomanry and
volunteers, 602.

K.

Knighthood, Plan for a new Order, 615.
L.

Le Marchant, Major-Gen. his life, 501...

M.

Marriages, Soldiers, frequency of, and
Children of Private Soldiers, 52.
Marching Money to Officers, 169.
Marshals of the French Empire, List of,

174.

Moira, Gen. the Earl of, his life, 301; his
landing at Ostend, 9.

Moore, Sir John, his march into Spain

and subsequent retreat 339, vide Cam-
paigns in the Peninsula.

Maps and Plan-Part of North Holland,
Battle of Rolica, Battle of Vimeira,
Seat of War in Russia, Battle of Aspern
on the 5th July, 1809, do. on the 6th
July, Battle of Corunna.
Medicine, Regimental, 461.
Marriages, 298, 592, 682.
Medical Department, 598.
Militia, Hints for its improvement, 617.

Holland, expeditions to, vide Duke of Parole, Breaches of, 56, 248.
York's biography.

Heroism, anecdote of, in a French, and
magnanimity of an English officer, 371.

I..

Instructions to officers, Civil and Military,

going out to Lisbon, or on foreign ser-

Prisoners in France, 64, 613..
Portuguese Army, 62, 72.
Poetical Essays on Military Subjects, 28,
37, 151, 246, 829, 332.
Pensions, regulation for granting them
to Officers losing an eye, or limb on:
service, 79.