THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL AND Naval and Military Magazine. BIBLI 1833. PART I. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN BY RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. MEMOIRS OF SERVICES-of late Gen. Earl of Kilmorey, 218; Vice- The Siege of Antwerp in 1832, 289; Historical Notice and Previous Sieges, 289; Preparatory Movements and Breaking Ground, 294; Opening and Progress of the Besieging Batteries, 307; Assault of the Lunette St. Laurent, 344; Battering in Breach, 373; Capitu- 515 523 524 525 On the Artillery Practice at the Siege of the Citadel of Antwerp THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. OURSELVES TO OUR CONSTITUENTS. "Fais ce que doit, arrive ce qui peut." AGAIN, comrades, and for the fifth time, it is our welcome office, as your faithful representative, to wish ye the "compliments of the season.” May ye prosper during the year to come, in all your honourable pursuits and wishes. In peace or war, in wisdom, or in love, which is not wisdom, let your march be ever onward and in earnest.-Carpe viam !— Time never fled so rapidly as now, nor wore such changeful colours on his wings, the tints of the chameleon,-capricious and evanescent.Carpe viam!-The beaten track is all but lost, and the new route of renovated intellect is traced by the hoary pioneer's scythe, levelling, lopping, destroying with indiscriminate sweep. With half the world he "gallops withal," bearing his fare blinded and breathless towards a goal which ever recedes as they precipitate themselves towards it. "March," comrades, but march with the measured pace of sense and system;—that calculated pace which gives unity and firmness to your ranks may, virtually as well as figuratively, impart moderation and method to your minds. Amidst the troubled vista now opened to our own nation, there appear two objects of paramount concern to the United Service,-namely, their COUNTRY and THEMSELVES. That the former will never be endangered while the latter have the power to defend it, through every vicissitude, through good or through evil report, it would be folly and injustice to doubt. They have, within man's memory, repelled the banded foreigner from its shores,-they have struck home for England in every sea, in every region of the globe-so will they again and again, if need arise. Ferre juvat patriis libertatemque tueri. For ourselves, comrades, we of the United Service have rights to guard, as well as duties to perform ;-if we have services to show, we have also claims to sustain; but, while other classes put forward unbounded pretensions, and press tumultuously for power and profit, be it our part to maintain and improve our position and our portion by the irresistible arguments of professional desert, and the public safety. While we are not ignorant of our strength and importance as the constitutional and indispensable bulwark of the country, upon which, at this moment, more than at any former period of her history, the tranquillity, both internal and external, of the British monarchy depends, there exists no thought amongst us but how best to serve the state, and obey its authorities. A Service thus animated and united (we include of course both arms), is not likely, we deem, to incur slight or tampering at the hands of the powers that be, or that may be; while, on the contrary, every motive, both public and professional, points to U.S. JOUEN, No. 50. JAN. 1833. B |