Order, foolk! Handsomely done, gentlemen! very handsomely done! and altogether too, except that a few of you were a leetle too soon, and some others a leetle too late. In laying down your guns, gentlemen, take care to lay the locks up and the other sides down.

"Tention the whole! Ground foolk! Very well.

Charge, bayonet! (some of the men)-That can't be right, captain; pray look again, for how can we charge bayonet without our guns?

(Captain.) I don't know as to that, but I know I'm right, for here 'tis printed in the book-c, h, a, r, yes, charge bayonet, that's right, that's the word, if I know how to read; come, gentlemen, do pray charge bayonet! Charge, I say! Why don't you charge? Do you think it an't so? Do you think I have lived to this time o'day and don't know what charge bayonet is? Here, come and see for yourselves; it's plain as the nose on your fa-stop-stay-no! halt! no! no! Faith I'm wrong! I turned over two leaves at once, but I beg your pardon; gentlemen we will not stay out long, and we'll have something to drink as soon as we have done. Come boys, get up off the stumps and logs and take up your guns, we'll soon be done; excuse me if you please.

Fix bayonet!

Advance, arms! Very well done, turn the stocks of your guns in front gentlemen, and that will bring the barrels behind; and hold them strait up and down if you please. Let go with your left hand and take hold with your right just below the guard. Steuben says the gun must be held p, e, r, pertic'lar-yes, you must always mind and hold your guns very pertic❜lar. Now boys-'tention the whole!

Present, arms! Very handsomely done! hold the guns over t'other knee; t'other hand up-turn your hands round a little, and raise them up higher-draw the other foot back! Now you are nearly right-very well done, GENTLEMEN; you have improved vastly since I first saw you; you are getting.

too slick for taller! What a charming thing it is to see men. under good discipline! Now, GENTLEMEN, we come to the revolutions-but, lord, men, you have got all in a sort of a snark, as I may say: how did you get all into such a higglety pigglety.

The fact was, the shade had moved considerably to the eastward, and had exposed the right wing of these hardy veterans to a galling fire of the sun. Being but poorly provided with umbrellas at this end of the line, they found it convenient to follow the shade, and in huddling to the left for this purpose, they had changed the figure of their line from that of a crescent to one which more nearly resembles a pair of pot-hooks.

"Come, gentlemen," (says the captain) "spread yourselves out again into a straight line, and let us get into the wheelings and other matters as soon as possible."

But this was strenuously opposed by the soldiers. They objected to going into these revolutions at all, inasmuch as the weather was extremely hot, and they already had been kept in the field upwards of three quarters of an hour. They reminded the captain of his repeated promise to be as short as he possibly could, and it was clear he could dispense with all this same wheeling and flourishing if he chose. They were already very thirsty, and if he would not dismiss them, they declared they would go off without dismission and get something to drink, and he might fine them if that would do him any good; they were able to pay their fine, but could not go without drink to please any body, and they swore they would never vote for another captain who wished to be so unreasonably strict.

The captain behaved with great spirit on this occasion, and a smart colloquy ensued; when at length becoming exasperated to the last degree, he roundly asserted that no soldier ought never to think hard of the orders of his officer; and finally he went so far as to say that he did not think any

gentleman on that ground had any just cause to be offended with him :-The dispute was finally settled by the captain's sending for some grog for their present accommodation, and agreeing to omit reading the military law, as directed by a late act, and also all the military manœuvres, except two or three such easy and simple ones as could be performed within the compass of the shade. After they had drank their grog, and had spread themselves, they were divided into platoons.

"Tention the whole! To the right wheel! Each man faced to the right about.

Why, Gentlemen! I didn't mean for every man to stand still and turn himself nayturally right round; but when I told you to the right I intended for you to wheel round to the right as it were. Please to try that again, gentlemen; every right hand must stand fast, and only the others turn round

In a previous part of the exercise, it had, for the purpose of sizing, been necessary to denominate every second person a right hand man. A A very natural consequence was, that on the present occasion those right hand men maintained their position, all the intermediate ones facing about as before.

Why look at'em now! exclaimed the captain, in extreme vexation; I'll be dd if you can understand a word I say. Excuse me gentlemen, but it rayly seems as if you could not come at it exactly. In wheeling to the right, the right hand eend of the platoon stand fast, and the other eend comes round like a swingletree; those on the outside, must march faster than those on the inside, and those on the inside not near so fast as those on the outside. You sartainly must un

derstand me now gentlemen, and now please to try onst more. In this, they were somewhat more successful.

"Tention the whole! To the left-left, no-right-that is, the left I mean the right left wheel! march!

In this he was strictly obeyed; some wheeled to the right, left, or both ways..

"Stop! halt! let us try again! I could not jist then tell my right hand from my left! you must excuse me gentlemen, if you please, experience makes perfect, as the saying is; long as I have served, I find something new to learn every day but all's one for that. Now gentlemen, do that motion once more."

By the help of a non-commissioned officer in front of each platoon, they wheeled this time with tolerable regularity.

"Now boys you must try to wheel by divisions; and there is one thing in particular which I have to request of you gentlemen, and it is this, not to make any blunder in your wheeling. You must mind and keep at a wheeling distance, and not talk in the ranks nor get out of size again; for I want you to do this motion well, and not to make any blunder

now.

"Tention the whole! By divisions to the right wheel!

march!

In doing this it seemed as if bedlam had broke loose; every man took the command. Not so fast on the right ! Slow now, slow now! Haul down them umbrellars! Faster on the left! Keep back a little there! Don't crowd so! Hold up your gun Sam! Go faster there! faster! Who trod on myd -your huffs! Keep back, keep back! Stop us captain, do stop us! Go faster there! I've lost my shoe! Get up again, Ned! halt! halt! halt! stop gentlemen! stop, stop! d―n it, I say, can't you stop!

By this time they got into utter and inexplicable confusion, and so I left them.

NO. I. VOL. I.

F

TIMOTHY CRABSHAW.

CRITICISM.

Annual Discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th Nov. 1810.-By Joseph Hopkinson. pp. 32. Bradford & Inskeep, Philadelphia.

Extravagant expectations are usually disappointed. When we understood that Mr. Hopkinson had been selected as the orator on this occasion, we anticipated a much more copious and elaborate discussion of the subject than it appears to have undergone. We have longed wished to see "the fastidious arrogance of the reviewers and magazine makers of Great Britain" humbled by a fair display of our progress "in literature, taste, morals, and the arts;" and from the reputation which this gentleman enjoys, we know no one better qualified to perform this task. His ardent zeal in the promotion of every thing that conduces to elevate the character of his country, is said to be ably seconded by the quickness with which he perceives and the ability with which he scans, her interest, resources and strength.

This oration is, confessedly "composed of mere hints and sketches put together with unwarrantable haste," but it exhibits the disjecta membra throughout, of a mind richly imbrued with taste and reflection; and it leaves us little to regret, but that the more important avocations of the authour had not permitted him to enter more fully into his subject. The facts adduced in support of his argument are too scanty, and, with a single exception, they are confined to a view of our progress in the art of printing. Of the COLUMBIAD WC have understood that the engravings were imported from London, but the typographical execution, for accuracy, excellence and taste, will rank Messrs. Fry & Kammerer among the Elzevirs, the Baskervilles and the Bulmers of other nations. But on the score of literature this bulky epic probably will never be cited, with much complacency, by an