WE trust that J. C. will favour us with the cantinuation of his valuable Journal. We cannot sufficiently express our thanks for his kindness, and our admiration of the various talents, and all of them in a singular degree, which appear to be possessed by this gentleman. We have lately seen the celebrated Cart Militaire, corrected by him, and some translations from the French and German, which prove the rare union of of knowledge, talents, and industry, in a subaltern. We must express our warmest thanks likewise to H. K. His approbation of our efforts is a part of our most pleasing reward. The praise of good and excellent men is in some degree their acknowledgment that they see something of a kindred merit in ourselves. Our other Correspondents will be pleased to receive our thanks. On the 8th of this Month will be published, price Two Shillings and Six pence, expressly for the purpose of enabling Officers, in Two Months, to instruct themselves. A SPANISH GRAMMAR, arranged on the plan of the Eton Latin Grammar, i.e. so as, by the omission of what is superfluous, and the fullest exposition of what is necessary, to unite the greatest brevity with the fullest explanation, and thereby to assist the memory, and enable every one to instruct themselves. The Publisher is enabled to say, that this is not only the cheapest, but likewise the best Spanish Grammar extant; inasmuch as it is not the work of an ignorant foreigner, but of an elegant scholar, for his own use, The Eleventh Number of the MILITARY CLASSICS is published this day. It contains the first part of the Lives of Plutarch, a book which ought to be the constant companion of every gentleman and officer. The price of each Number of the Military Classics, is Two Shillings and Six-pence. INTERESTING MILITARY WORKS. This day is published, by T. EGERTON, at the Military Library, Whitehall, A DETAIL of the LINE MOVEMENTS, prescribed in Part the Fourth of His Majesty's Regulations for the British Army, exemplified in Eighty-five Manœuvres, with Diagrams. By MAJOR JAMES PALMER, Brigade-Major of the North British Staff. ALSO. A NARRATIVE of the CAMPAIGNS of that late distinguished Corps, the "Logal Lusitanian Legion," from its first organization under Brigadier-General Sir Robert Wilson, Aide-de-Camp to the King, K. M. T. and K. T. S. in 1808, to its final dissolution in 1811; also relating to the Campaigns in the Peninsula, in the years 1808, 1809, 1810, and 1811. PRIVATE MILITARY INSTITUTION, SHOOTER'S HILL, KENT. " At Mr. C. MALORTI DE MARTEMONT's, knight of the royal and military order of St. Louis; late a captain in the French royal artillery; and master of fortification and artillery in the royal military academy, Woolwich; author of "The Theory of Field Fortification;" Commentaries on the Spirit of the modern System of War;" " Instructions for Officers in Military Plan Drawing, &c. &c. &c." a few young Gentlemen are boarded and qualified for the army, and the Honourable East India Company's service. They are also prepared for the Royal Military College, Marlow; and for the Honourable East India Company's Military College, Croydon. They are taught mathematics; permanent and field fortification, including the practical method of tracing works on the ground, and of constructing them; the art of attacking and defending fortresses, posts, intrenchments, &c. military plan drawing; the proper method to reconnoitre and survey in the field, both with instruments and by the cye alone; levelling; castrametation; tactics; perspective; and the French language. The gentlemen may be attended also, if required, by classical, German, fencing, dancing, drill, and drawing masters, on moderate terms. N.B. French is spoken in the family. *All letters addressed to Mr. C. Malorti de Martemont, Shooter's Hill, Kent, vespecting further particulars, will be duly attended to. THE ROYAL MILITARY CHRONICLE. JULY, 1812. MILITARY BIOGRAPHY. MEMOIR OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR ROWLAND HILL. THE family to which General Hill belongs, has been long seated in Shropshire. It is not too much to say, that it has been immemorially distinguished for benevolence and virtue. It has exhibited, for a long succession of years, the pearls or fruits of hereditary example, and a good domestic education. By means of such example, and such education, each successive head of the family has transmitted his own virtue and piety to his children; and the latter, in their own turn, have conveyed the same solid patrimony to their own descendants. Such is the value of FAMILY HABITS, OF PIETY AND VIRTUE. Their effect extends beyond the individual. They form families and households to virtue; and secure the piety of generations yet unborn. That I may speak distinctly upon a subject of so much importance, I conceive it necessary to add, that by the term family habits, I am here speaking particularly of family worship, a more effectual means of forming the morals and minds of children and servants, and let me add, of procuring the Divine blessing upon yourself and family, than the whole mob of fanciful methods recommended in the modern systems of education. There was no person in Holy Writ, for example, who experienced a greater portion of the Divine blessing than Abraham, who was not only blessed in his own person, but through a long descending, and we may add, interminable posterity. And the same Scripture seems to give a strong reason for this, where it thus sums up his character." And Abraham and his household served the Lord, and the blessing of the Lord was upon them." As I have this subject very much at heart, i. e. the improvement of the religious habits of the army, let me be permitted to put this question to some most respectable and excellent officers-Your families are admirably forming under your own eyes, but whence is it that this family worship is not a part of your scheme? You are unaccustomed, perhaps, to read out to an assembly, however small. Let one of your children, then, read, till you get the habit, which you will acquire in three mornings. But probably it interferes too much with the business or employments of the day. It need Me not, however, thus interfere. In my father's family, (for I thank God I had this advantage) it was thus managed: As soon as he came into the breakfast room the bell was rung for the servants and children, and a short form, not more than ten or twelve minutes, was then read by him, himself kneeling at the breakfast table, and the servants with their backs turned to him at the chairs; and in the same manner after supper, immediately before retiring at night. On Sunday morning, previously to attendance at church, the children had to learn by memory, the collect of the day; and that we might understand the circumstance and occasion of the epistle and gospel, we read the explanation of it in a book which ought to be in every family, Nelson's Feasts and Fasts. On Sunday evening, one of my brothers or myself read out a chapter of Prideaux's Connections, a most learned and useful work, connecting sacred and prophane history, and confirming and illustrating the one by the other. After supper (I am thus minute, because I am holding forwards an example for imitation) the servants were called in as usual, and the usual prayers said, after which, on this day only (Sunday) a sermon of Tillotson was read out to them. Such was the course of duty in which I was myself educated; and the result of it (I hope I do not speak presumptuously) is that secure and confirmed mind which can tranquilly look around the world, and see nothing that it so much desires as the Divine favour, and which, in the confidence of procuring that favour, can see absolutely nothing that it fears. To return, however, to our memoir One of the ancestors of General Hill, Sir Rowland Hill, Mercer, was Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1550, and is mentioned by Leland, the learned antiquary. "There is," says Leland, "a new bridge of stone made on Terne by a merchant of London, called Rowland Hill, a little abovethe confluence of the Severn and Terne." And Camden adds, "The old bridge of Atcham was erected in the reign of King Edward VI. at the sole expense of Rowland Hill, merchant, formerly Lord Mayor of London, whose extraordinary munificence and liberality were displayed in many public works in different parts of the kingdom, and particularly in this his native couuty. For, besides founding a free grammar school at Drayton, and allotting sufficient stipends for the maintenance of the same, he annually clothed three hundred poor people. He also contributed most liberally to the repairing Stoke church, and built two stone bridges, viz. this at Atcham, and one at Terne, and two others of timber at his own cost and charge during his life time." In this Sir Rowland Hill the family was divided into two branches, one of which, according to a brief memoir, from which we are writing, was represented by the late Noel Hill, Esq. of Attingham or Atcham, who was for many years one of the knights of the shire. This gentleman, about the year 1782, built a most beautiful seat at Terne, to which he has given the name of Attingham. In 1784, Mr. Hill was created Baron Berwick, of |