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efficient and completely equipped) that could be forwarded.The 
drivers are unskilful, and ignorant of artillery movements,.and 
I don't believe there is a reserve of 20 horses to meet all the wants and 
casualties of the whole British field artillery." 1 2 “ The brigades at Woolwich 
are ill-organised, uninstructed, unskilled, and incapable of either riding or 
driving.Not one of the four are either fit or capable of moving; 
and on the 10th April last (1848), a field battery being ordered to London, 3 
the gunners and drivers were so perfectly inadequate to the service, that they 
were removed, and other gunners and drivers substituted for the day." 3 It 
was chiefly owing to these vigorous remonstrances that England possessed 
the field artillery that landed in the Crimea. Peerages have been given before 
now for less important services. 
Of the changes that took place in the field artillery since 1848, and of the 
causes that produced them, I shall not venture to speak; because I live too 
near the time to be capable of speaking of them with impartiality. Standing 
at the feet of the gigantic statue, I cannot measure its proportions with 
justness, and I leave the task to some future writer. 
In my next, and concluding paper, I shall consider the influence of the 
recent changes in tactics on the mobility of field artillery. 
Glasgow, 
March, 1873. 
1 “ Report on the Numerical Deficiency, &c., of the Royal Artillery.” 1848, pp. 7,16,17. 
2 To overawe the Chartists. 
3 “ Illustrations of the Numerical Deficiency, &c., of the Royal Artillery.” 1849, pp. 14, 50. 
