ADDRESSED TO THR ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY, IN THE Barrack-Chapel at Woolwich, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR 1835. BY THE REV. WILLIAM-HENRY HENSLOWE, M.A., OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, LATE CURATE OF WEST TILBURY, ESSEX. "I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not LONDON: J. HATCHARD & SON, 187, PICCADILLY. 1836. 105. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROWLAND LORD HILL, GENERAL COMMANDING IN CHIEF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, ALTHOUGH personally unknown to your lordship, I yet venture to adopt this mode of drawing your attention to those matters of MILITARY concern which are particularly noticed in this publication: not, indeed, because your lordship is invested with the official dignity of Commander-in-chief of the British Army, but because, on the other hand, that office itself is graced by its investiture of a character like your lordship. Pardon me this act of homage. The gratuitous expression of a pleasing truth is not to be identified with the servile language of adulation; and it were entirely inconsistent with the principles of the author of this work, meanly and unduly to flatter any man's |