THE

UNITED SERVICE

JOURNAL

AND

Naval and Military Magazine.

1832. PART I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

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A Popular View of Fortification and Gunnery, No. X.

Observations on the Common Mode of connecting the Top-masts with

the Lower-masts of Ships, and a description of a Method by which

the Great Evils incidental to the Usual Practice are avoided

Biographical Memoir of the late Capt. Sir William Bolton, Knt. R.N.

A Recent Visit to several of the Polynesian Islands

Memoir of the Services of Admiral Sir Charles Henry Knowles, Bart.

Tahiti, and the Pitcairn Islanders

News from the New World

Reviews and Critical Notices

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89, 217

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103, 230, 523

Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea-The Log-Book of a Midship-

man-Eminent British Military Commanders-Early English Na-

vigators-Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours—

Poland-The Cabinet Annual Register-Instructions for the ap-
plication of Light Drill to Skirmishing in the Field, &c.-The
Harmonicon

General Correspondence

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105, 241, 385, 529

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Admiral Brooking to Sir Robert Seppings

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Suggestions on Promotion in the Navy

105

Major W. Mitchell on the Trisection of an Angle, and the Mathema-

On the Maritime Population of the British Empire

Regulars and Trained Bands

The Soldier

Sketches of the Burmese War

First Meridian

144, 288, 432, 576

Extracts from the MS. Journal of a Naval Officer serving on the

Project for a Land Communication with Ireland

On the Use of Rocket Lights, as auxiliaries to Light-houses

The Austrian Frontier Fencibles

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220, 484

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Reviews and Critical Notices-Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea-

Standard Novels-The New Charter

War on the Grand Scale

A Yarn touching the noble Ship-British Constitution

Plan for the Organization of a Civil Constabulary Force

Capt. Woodley, in reply to Strictures on his Divine System of the

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Memoir of the Services of the late Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander

Memoir of the Services of Gen. Sir George Don, G.C.B. & G.C.H.'

Memoir of the Services of the late Vice-Admiral Robert Barton

Memoir of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Gabriel Martindell, K.C.B.

Percussion Shells, Steamers of War, Horizontal Fire of Shells from

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