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The Review of an Edition of the Classics has been received, and is under consideration. We confess it is due to the Army, that the great inaccuracies and omissions which prevail throughout that publication should be noticed; and the only aversion we feel to give publicity to the communication, arises from the idea, that our motives may be subject to misconception.

A Review and Narrative of the Campaign in America, embellished with a correct Map of the Seat of War, &c. drawn and engraved expressly for the Military Panorama, is in preparation. Maps of the Retreat of the French Army in Russia, will be given in the following Numbers.

We are aware of the malicious attempts of the Officer alluded to in Antonius's Letter; and shall, when we have obtained some information on points to which we are now directing an enquiry, give to the Army a full and correct statement on the subject. Antonius is requested to accept our best thanks for his good wishes; and we beg to inform him, that the communications of the Officer in question were never gratuitous.

Major Roberts's "Plan for forming a Rallying Square" has been received, and will appear in our next. We beg this intelligent Officer to accept our best thanks for his communication.

The "Treatise on the State of Europe, with Propositions for the Restoration of a Balance of Power, by the exertions, political and military, of Great-Britain, Russia, and Prussia," will be given in our next.

Crito is recommended to forward his statement to Head-Quarters, where the public abuse and fraud he complains of will, we are confident, have strict and impartial investigation. The coals allowed by Government for consumption in Barracks and Magazines, cannot legally and honorably be removed for consumption into the private dwelling of any Officer.

The following Postscript to the " Military View of the United States, and their Vulnerable Points exposed, by a reference to the Conduct and Opinions of General Washington," we regret, was not received sufficiently early for insertion after the valuable article to which it relates.

P.S. The recent accounts from America induce me to refer to the situation in which our dominions there may be placed, by our having lost the sovereignty of the Lakes: Upper Canada must be abandoned. Without the Lakes, all that Sir George Prevost can do will be to defend Lower Canada. By the papers laid on the table of the House of Lords, his whole force did not then exceed 8,100 men. Reinforcements may have arrived to give him 10,000; but, he will be lucky if he secures his Upper Canadian army. With this force he has to defend Quebec, and garrison Halifax. But we have reason to rejoice, that, all circumstances considered, our positions still afford us powerful means of offence.

June 27, 1813.

Military Essays, Reviews of Military Works, Biographical Notes, Journals of Sieges, and every Military operation, will at all times be particularly attended to; and the authors of such communications may rest assured that the Editor will preserve an inviolable secrecy as to their names, and when requested will confer with them personally on the subject of their communications.

As the Panorama is published in a manner that will always render it not only a useful and necessary, but also an elegant work for the confined library of the Military man, and to deserve a prominent place on the shelves of the scholar and the gentleman, it consequently requires very considerable time for printing and binding, and it is therefore requested that those correspondents who are desirous for an early publication of their favours, will transmit them at the commencement of each month, directed to the Editor, 33, Orchard-Street Portman-Square.

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Major General W. S. Dither

Engraved for the Military Panorama

by ILR.Cook from a Picture by S.Woodforde R.A.

London Published July 11813 Martin TN32 Prchard Street Fortman Square

Military Panorama,

OR

OFFICERS' COMPANION FOR JULY 1813.

MILITARY BIOGRAPHY.

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM THOMAS DILKES, Third Foot Guards.

"Love and honour."

ALTHOUGH it would very justly be considered as a great

weakness on our part, were we to refrain giving to the army memoirs of living military men, from the opinion some individuals may indulge that the object is to court particular favor; yet it must be confessed that the task of recording the biographies and delineating the professional services of living officers, is at all times an invidious and arduous duty.

The family of Major-General Dilkes is origmally of Maxtoke Castle, in Warwickshire, where the elder branch still resides. The original name is Dilke: the final s was added by Admiral Sir Thomas Dilkes, great grandfather to the present Major-General; he married the Lady Mary, daughter to Murrough O'Brien, sixth Lord and first Earl of Inchiquin, and widow of Henry Boyle, of Castle Martyr, Esq. (whose son was many years Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and created Earl of Shannon in 1756.) General Michael O'Brien Dilkes, only son of Sir Thomas and Lady Mary, was Governor of the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham, Commanderin-Chief in Ireland, and Colonel of the 50th regiment of foot; he had three sons engaged in the service of their country, two of whom survived the General. The eldest, Thomas, was Major of the 49th regiment, and served in America during great part of the war, but from considerable pecuniary disappointments on the death of his father, he found himself obliged to quit a service he * Motto of Major-General Dilkes' family. U

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was warmly attached to: he left two sons, the eldest of whom is the present Major-General Dilkes, the second a Captain in the Royal Navy.

Major-General Dilkes was born at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, in 1767; he received his education at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; in 1780 he was appointed Ensign in the 49th regiment, and continued at the said academy until 1782, when he joined the 103d regiment in Ireland, as Lieutenant, under the everrevered General Abercrombie. In March 1783, he purchased an Ensigncy in the 3d Foot Guards; from Jan. 1788 till Jan. 1789 he served as Aid-de-Camp to the late Gen. O'Hara, then commanding at Gibraltar. In 1790 he was appointed Adjutant to his regiment, the 3d Foot Guards; in 1792 Lieutenant and Captain, and in 1793 he embarked with the first body of troops, consisting of three battalions of Foot Guards under Major-General Lake, and a brigade of the line, 14th, 37th, and 53d regiments, under MajorGeneral Abercrombie, with a small detachment of artillery, the whole not exceeding 4000 effectives; and moreover the regiments of the line had been hastily completed by independent companies, and were extremely raw and untutored in the art of war.

The subject of this memoir served with very distinguished credit during the whole of the campaigns in the Netherlands, and was present at all the principal occurrences. In the gallant affair at Lincelles, in August 1793, the conduct of the Guards gained for those regiments wreaths of never-fading honor. The Prince of Orange, commanding the Dutch troops in the Netherlands, had made large detachments from his camp for different enterprizes, and was therefore under the necessity of requesting his Royal Highness the Duke of York to send three battalions to the support of the Dutch troops at Lincelles. The three nearest battalions, which happened to be those of the first, Coldstream, and 3d regiment of Guards, were accordingly ordered to march under the command of Major-General Lake for that purpose. Previous to their arrival, however, the Dutch troops had lost the post and retired by a road different to that by which the British was advancing; they had further neglected to dispatch any person for the purpose of meeting General Lake, and to apprize him of their route.

The head of the English columns was close to the works before the British General entertained the most distant idea that the Dutch had retired, or that the enemy were in full possession and strongly entrenched. Thus deceived in his expectations, Major-General

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