Cabinet Cyclopædia, noticed, 240, 537 Library, 240, 537
Cadets, education of, 46
Caillie's Travels to Timbuctoo, 425 Camelford, Lord, memoir of, 245 Camps, retrenched, 505 Caravanserai, described, 484 Carbines, construction of, 69 Cartouch-box, its defective construction, 204 Cavalry Board, 416
British, on the Peninsula, 59; fire- arms of, 69; actions of, 357, 522 -British, merits of, 548
French, their conduct at Waterloo,
light, distribution of, 205 movements, revised, 268
on the employment of, 344 Ceylon, addresses and orders on the occasion of the 16th Regiment leaving, 252 Chain-Messengers, 503; described, 504 Chanticleer, late voyage of, 489
Charles, King of Spain, his letter to Queen Anne, 512
Charpentier, M. work translated by, 369 Chesapeak, action of, 149 Chesnut, on the growth of, 464 Choiseul, Duke de, 248
Cholera, epidemic, 249, 259, 410; quaran- tine for, 420
Chronometers, knowledge of, 489 Churruca, Admiral, experiments of, 369 Cigar-smoking, practice of, 91 Cipher to be employed on service, 246 Clerk, Mr. statements of, 145, 146 Coa, combat of, 378
Cockburn, Rear-Admiral, 170 Colbert, Gen. 524
Colonies, service in, 343
Colours presented to the 30th Regiment, 265; to the 70th Regiment, 420 Combat, sham one described, 479 Comets, calculation respecting, 314 Commanders in the Navy, 267 Compass, irregularities of, 415 Congo, river, 185
Congreve rockets, trial of, 470 Constantinople, panorama of, 240; letters from, 300
Contagion and Malaria, in fever, 109 Cook, Capt. and Sir Joseph Banks, 102 Copper caps, to render them water-proof, 515 Corisco Bay, natives of, 322, 326 Cork Yacht Club, 396
Corps, changes in stations of, 121, 268, 558 Cotton, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Stapleton, 522 Couchman, singular costume of, 467 Courts-Martial, on the constitution and practice of, 94; order respecting, 271 on Commander Williams, 123; on Capt. Kelly, 270; on Lord W. Paget, 568
Cove, Naval establishment, removal of, 556 Cowes, regatta at, 397
Crawfurd, Gen. 378
Creagh, Mr. James, 167, 168 Cuirassiers, French, bravery of, 526 Dances of Rotuma, 479
Darien, turtle-catching on the coast of, 267 Deaths, 142, 285, 438, 580
Deccan prize-money, non-payment of, 251 Deception, island of, particulars of, 492 Delagoa Bay, natives addicted to theft, 193 Democracy, power of, 290 Dickson, Commander, 414
Diebitsch, Count, memoir of, 81; parti- culars respecting, 114; movements of, 258, 409; his death, 410
Dining out, an adventure in Portugal, 92 Dixon, Commander, pamphlet by, 96 Dolling, Capt. club established by, 68 Dominica, attacked by the French, 281 Don, Gen. 176
Donkin, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Rufane, 414 Douglas, Sir Howard, 160, 161; new edi- tion of his Essay on Military Bridges announced, 241; on naval gunnery, 373; his speech on the establishment of a Naval and Military Museum, 411 Drill, suggestions on, 404 Driver, Capt. 29
Drummond Light, for light-houses, 77 Lieut. on correcting the com-
pass in high latitudes, 413 Dubitza, affair of, 7
Dublin Bay Regatta, 118
Dudhurst, H. W. on the proposition for a United Service Medical Society, 251 Duelling, remarks on, 100
Dundas, instructions of, 395
Dyas, Ensign, bravery, 332, 334, 335, 337
Ecliptic, obliquity of, 114
Edinburgh Cabinet Library, noticed,241,537 Editor's Portfolio; or Naval and Military Register, 113, 257, 409, 553 Education of the sons of officers, 96 Edwards, Lieut. his letter detailing the death of Capt. Logan, 253
Ekins, Rear-Admiral, statements of, 145, 147, 148, 149
Elliot, Capt. Hon. G. experiments by, 370 Encke, calculations of, 314
England, trade of, 295
Epitaph on the late Colour-Serjeant Ro- binson, 487
Epitome of English literature, 537 Erromanga, island of, 479, 480 Esteiras, Cape, 322, 323 Etiquette, a point of, 251
Family Classical Library, noticed, 240, 537 Fernando Naronha, island of, 494 Fever, contagion and malaria in, 109 Finch, Capt. visit to Sandwich Islands, 194 Fisher, Mr. on the course of the Niger, 262 Fitz-Clarence, Col. created Earl of Mun-
Fleet, British, annals of, 131, 572
Fleet, on condemning smugglers to serve in Humming-bird, fact respecting, 261 it, 57
effects of intemperance in, 497 Fleets, on conducting and manoeuvring, 350 Fletcher's History of Poland, noticed, 537 Forman, Capt. assertion of, 315 Fortification, &c. popular view of, 505 Foster, Commander Henry, his death, 286; particulars respecting, 489, 495 Fragments of Voyages and Travels reviewed,
Hunt, Lieut. killed, 329 Hurricane, dreadful, 264
Ice islands, numerous, 491 Independence Island, account of, 197 India Army, 250
Indian Army, versus that of St. Helena, 405 Infantry, British, on the equipment of, 202; distribution of, 205
Intemperance, effects of, in the fleet and army, and its remedy, 497 Ireland, affairs in, 113, 257, 409 survey of the coast of, 270 Irish, character of, 179 Irwin, Mount, 254
Sir Thomas, Life of, noticed, 537 Lazaretto, formed at Constantinople, 301 Leipsic, song of a peasant girl after the battle of, 23
Leopold, Prince, elected King of Belgium,410 Letters from Constantinople, 300
Life Guards, silver kettle-drums presented to, 262, 555
Lieutenancy of the Tower, 554 L'Heritier, Gen. 526
Light cavalry and infantry, distribution of in the field, 205
Light-houses, the Drummond light for, 77 Lightning-conductors, 121
Lithuania, forming the centre of the revolu- tionary districts, 223
Macerone, Col. on Rifle Cartridges, 513 Mac Geechy, Major, killed, 334, 336 Macintosh, Major, 332
Mackie, Major-Gen. his death, 286 Mackenzie, Colonel Alexander, death of, 582 M'Dermott, Colonel James, death of, 582 M'Leay, Alex. letter of, 256 M'Leod, Capt. his death, 143
Major, gallantry of, 379 Major-Gen. drowned, 143
Man, Edward, killed, 329 Manderson, Capt. 50
Mangroves, fatal influence of, 187 Manoeuvres, naval, systematic practice of, 350 Marine, mercantile, on the discipline of, 24 Marriages, 142, 285, 438, 580
Marshall's gun-carriages, experiments on, 242 Massey, Mr. invention of, 502 Masters in the Navy, 399 Mates in the Navy, grievance of, 107 compared with Ensigns
in the Army, 399 Mats, different, 476 Matthew, Patrick, his Treatise on Naval Timber, 457
Maxwell, Sir Murray, sketch of services, 531 Mayumba Bay, 186
Medical department, pay, &c. of, 107; abuses in, 400, 401
Medical Staff of the Army at Home, dis- tribution &c. of, 227; comments on,
Out; an Adventure in Portugal, 92 Timber, observations on, 457
Navy, masters in, 399
mates in, without rank, 399 Nelson, Viscountess, her death, 287 New Sporting Magazine, noticed, 241 Newton, accusation against, 310; renown of, 318
Newtownbarry, affray at, 409
Niemen, river, some account of, 224 Niger, discovery of the course of, 262, 367, 423
Niza, filthy state of, 183
Northesk, Admiral the Earl of, memoir of his services, 339
Norton's Rifle Shell, experiments with, 120. Nugent, Colonel, address of, 117
Oak, British, on the growth of, 462 Officer, naval, requisite for, 387 Officers, plan for educating their sons, 96 who served on the Peninsula and at Waterloo, 550
Olivenza, surrender of, 178 Ordnance Department, 272 Estimates, 125, 560
O'Reily, Dr. anecdote of, 330
Meteorological Register, 144, 288, 440, 584 Padron, Cape, natives of, 38 Micee of Hindostan, 552
Midshipmen afloat, comforts of, 545 Military achievements and occurrences, 288 punishments, 552
Monkeys, sagacity of, 40; worshipped, 192 Moondah river, 322, 323 Morgan, Lieut. 167
Morocco, account of, 116, 259 Muffling, Gen. 528, 529
Mulgrave, Earl of, his death, 143 Murray, Brigadier-Gen. 62
Museum, Naval and Military, formed, 225 Musket, manufacture of, 202 Musquito Islands, 323 Mutiny, observations on, 26
Napier, Colonel, his work on the Peninsular War, 62, 63, 64; statements of, 357, 358, 359; review of the third volume of his History of the War, 375
Paget, Lord Wm. court-martial on, 568 Palmeiro, Cape, natives of, 41 Parker, Capt. Sir Peter, killed, 172 Parliament, dissolved, 113, 257 Parliamentary proceedings, abstract of, 125, 560
Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, Scientific Expedition to, 259
Patten, Capt. killed, 331
Payne, Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. account of, 287 Pearce, Commander Robert, 169
Nathaniel, Life, &c. of, 537 Peasant Girl, song of one, 23 Pedro, Don, arrives in London, 410 Pendulum, experiments, 491 Peninsula, conduct of the British cavalry on, 59; history of the War in, 375 Persia, Skirmish in, 483 Phillimore, John, on condemning smug- glers to serve in the Fleet, 57
Phillips, Sir Richard, opinion of, 316 Plague, quarantine against the infection of, in Turkey, 300
POETRY-Song of a Peasant Girl after the battle of Leipsic, 23; the Veteran to his Sword, 209; the Soldier's Bride, 318; United Service Recreations at Ports- mouth, 349
Point-blank, definition of the term, 369 Poland, state of affairs in, 113, 258, 409, 553 Histories of, noticed, 537, 538 Polynesian Islands, account of a recent visit to, 194, 473
Ponsonby, Sir W. 525, 527
Portugal, laws and institutions of, 291 Powell, Lieut.-Colonel, his address to the 30th Regiment, 265
Prescott, Lieut.-Gen. singular order of, 338 President, American frigate, 171 Privateer, French, captured, 390 Prize-money, distribution of, 124 Prizes advertised for payment, 560 Promotion, tardy, 250
Promotions and Appointments, military, 127, 277, 432, 570
Publications, new, critical notices and re- views of, 234, 375, 537 Punishments, African, 321
Quarantine in Turkey, 300
St. Catherine, account of the island of, 490 St. Helena, on promotion at, 250, 405 St. Mary's, town of, 164
St. Paul's Rocks, position of, 494 St. Pierre, opinions of, 308
St. Vincent, Lord, 386
Salamanca, incident at the battle of, 54 Samogitia, account of the duchy of, 223 San Christoval, operations against, 328, 329
against the Cholera Morbus, 420 Sardinia, statistics of, 557
Recollections of the late American war, 162 of a visit to Warsaw, 467
Recruits, standard of, 118 Reform bill, 409
observations on,
Regattas, utility of, 67, 396 Reliance, hurricane experienced by, 263 Reminiscences of a Subaltern, 177, 328 Retreat, suggestions for, 546
Reviews and Critical Notices-On the Con- stitution and Practice of Courts-Martial, 94; Bourrienne's Life of Napoleon, 95; Commander Dixon's Pamphlet, 96; On a New Armament for Ships-of-war and Razéeing, 234; Colonel Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula, vol. iii. 375; Capt. Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels, 385; Life of Sir Thomas Law- rence, 537; Brooke's Travels in Spain and Morocco, 537; Life of Nathaniel Pearce, 537; Fletcher's History of Po- land, 537; History of Poland, 538 Rifle Cartridges, observations on, 513 Robins and Hutton, experiments of, 238
Sarmiento, voyage of, 260
Saxe, Marshal, opinions of, 61
Sayer, Rear-Admiral Sir G. memoir of, 221 Schemloi, Capt. his plan for a lazaretto, 301 Scientific Gazette, noticed, 241
Scotland, extent of inebriation in, 497 Sea-fighting, modes of, 352 Semaphore Telegraph, illumination of, 535 Serjeants' Pikes, 204
Service, extraordinary length of, 120 Seymour, Colonel, killed, 63
Shark, its extraordinary sagacity, 185 Shary, river, conjecture respecting, 367 Ships-of-war, new armament for, 234
- mephitic air expelled from, 557 Shipwreck, reinuneration for, 247; extraor- dinary case of, 427
Shipp, John, 87th regiment, case of, 548 Simmons, Capt. review of his work on the Constitution, &c. of Courts-Martial, 94 Skirmish in Persia, 483 Slaves, fate of, 185
Slave-trade at Angola, 37 Smugglers, on condemning them to serve in the fleet, 57
Smith, Rear-Admiral, death of, 581 Smyth, Capt. W. H. Meteorological Register kept by him, 144, 288, 440, 584 Soldiers, means for preserving health, 247 Soldier's Bride, 318
Sotheby, Admiral, death of, 583
Southard, S. L. letters of, 196
Sporting Magazine, 538
Staff, changes and alterations, 558 Standard Novels, noticed, 240
Steam Ships-of-war, on the mode of arming and fighting, 89
Steamers, suggestions against accidents, 538 Sterns, circular, 117
Stevens, Lieut. remarks of, 239 Stopford, Admiral Sir Robert, 414 Subaltern, reminiscences of, 177, 328 Superannuation, military, 98
Universe, theory of, with Strictures on Com- mander Woodley's "divine system," 305 Usagre, affair at, 363
Valais, disturbances in, 410
Vauban's notions of retrenched camps, 505 Veteran to his Sword, 209 Victor, Gen. 396
Vidal, Capt. 192; appointment of, 270 Villatte, Gen. 396
Vincennes, visit to the Sandwich Islands, 194 Vittoria, battle of, 17
Survey of the West Coast of Africa, 36, 185, Vivian, Colonel, gallant affair of, 523
Switzerland, military organization of, 453 Sword, on the use of, 61
Tactics, with reference to impending war, 1 Talavera, conduct of the 23rd Light Dra- goons at, 396, 545
Talbot, Colonel, killed, 362
Voice from the Army, 441 Voltaire, maxim of, 509 Von Saldern, system of, 530
Walker, Rear-Admiral, death of, 583 Wall, Lieut. his plan for illuminating the Semaphore Telegraph, 535
Wallace, Colonel Alexander, character, 181
Tamhameha III. King of the Sandwich Walsingham, Lord, account of, 287
Islands, letter to, 195
Target Practice, 488 Tarragona, siege of, 15
Taylor, Colonel, his bravery, 358 Tectona grandis, or teak-tree, 460 Teeth, hint for preserving, 552 Temeamea, brig, lost, 475 Teotihualcan, Pyramids of, 261 Thetis, loss of, 427
Timber, naval, remarks on, 457 Tongatabu, island of, 477
Torrington, Viscount, sketch of services, 365 Trafalgar, battle of, disposition of the com- bined fleets at, 138
Trench, Colonel, pun respecting, 330 Trisection of an angle, 406
Troki, town of, 224
Tuckey, Capt. expedition of, 40 Tucopia, island of, 477
Tupinier, memoir on the French navy, 234 Turkey, improvements in, 300; insurrection in, 410
Turtle Catchers on the Coast of Darien, 367 Twelve Nights, noticed, 240 Tyerman, Rev. Daniel, voyage of, 427
Uniform of the Unattached, 250 United Service Medical Society, proposed establishment of, 111; remarks on, 251 Recreations at Portsmouth,
War, on the system of, 1
Warsaw, recollections of a visit to, 467 Washington, Lieut. account of his visit to Marocco, 116, 259
Waterloo, conduct of the French and British cavalry at, 13, 524 Webster, Mr. 494
Weiss, Lieut. his death, 286 Whale, causes a shipwreck, 427
White, Capt. his Naval Researches, 145 Widows' Fund, suggestions respecting, 98 Williams, Commander, court-martial on, 123 Williams, Lieut. 495
Wills, an American, anecdote of, 172 Willow-tree, its naval properties, 466 Wilna, town of, 223
Windham, Mr. motion of, 281 Woodley, Commander, strictures on, 305 Works, detached, 510
Ximenes, Colonel, addresses to, 252, 253
Yacht Clubs and Regattas, 66, 396 Yellow fever, ravages of, 109, 110 Yeo, Sir James, extract of a letter from, 234 Yeomanry cavalry, instructions for, 105;
efficiency of, 210, 271; pay and allow- ances of, 273; manoeuvres of, 393 Yorke, Admiral Sir J. memoir of, 215, 287 Yeou, or Sakatoo river, 367, 368
Zelé, French man-of-war, 158, 160
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