WILLIAM GAEDINEll, G.C.B., K.C.H, 
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wliicii he so thoroughly identified himself 3 and whose welfare was his constant 
thought up to the latest hour. 
The first pamphlet was written in 1834, and is a military memoir of the late 
Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, G.C.H., the first staff officer of artillery 
and Deputy Adjutant-General from 1795 to 1825, during all the large operations in 
which the corps took part. This memoir was written just after Sir John Macleod’s 
death (which occurred in 1833), and was published in the U. S. Journal, No. 
LXYIII. The next pamphlet was also a biographical sketch, being a memoir 
of Admiral Sir Graham Moore, G.C.B., an intimate friend of Sir Robert’s, and 
brother to his old friend and General, Sir John Moore. We now come to the 
time when Sir Robert put himself forward in the interest of the corps, and those 
who knew his devoted esprit de corps were not surprised at this determination, con¬ 
sidering the miserable plight to which the Regiment was, at that time, reduced owing 
to the mistaken economy of successive governments. With a view, therefore, 
to interest Government in the cause of the Regiment, Sir Robert Gardiner in 1848, 
published a Report of the numerical deficiency, want of instruction, and inefficient 
equipment of the Royal Artillery, which he addressed to Lord Seymour and the 
Committee of the House of Commons then sitting on the Army, Navy, and 
Ordnance Estimates. Many of the leading statesmen were astounded at the revela¬ 
tions therein contained, but although the publication, by an officer of the corps, of 
this pamphlet giving details to support his statement was a bold measure, and only 
undertaken at some personal risk, it had a most beneficial effect and led to the 
almost immediate removal of one of the grievances therein complained of, by the 
appointment of Sir Robert himself to the Governorship of Gibraltar. 
This appointment which gave very great satisfaction to the Royal Artillery, had 
but one drawback, that owing to the necessity of Sir Robert’s departure to Gibraltar, 
he was unable to give evidence before Lord Seymour’s Committee, he, therefore, in 
the midst of his preparations, drew up the fourth pamphlet suggesting such en¬ 
quiry as was likely to be made to him and the answers he was prepared to give. 
On his return from Gibraltar in 1856, after drawing up a Report to Lord 
Palmerston, demonstrating the evils and dangers of governing the fortress as a 
Colony, Sir Robert again turned his mind to the necessities of the Corps, 
and addressed a pamphlet to Lord Panmure (then Secretary of State for War), 
bringing forward the defective system of enlisting men for the combined duties of 
gunners and drivers, and the necessity for the reorganization of the driver corps ; 
also the inadequate General and Regimental Stalf, the numerical deficiency of the 
Horse Artillery, and lastly drawing attention to a subject in which he took the 
deepest interest, viz. the establishment of an Artillery of the Guard. Sir Robert 
pointed out that “ the guard in every army in Europe, save alone that of England, 
is composed of Artillery, Cavalry and Infantry” and that “ on the amalgamation 
of the Artillery with the Cavalry and Infantry, of the army, hopes long since 
cherished immediately revived, that a portion of the Corps would be attached to the 
Household troops...” These hopes are, however, still deferred. 
The subsequent pamphlets were called forth by the events of the day—in which 
he continued, in spite of failing health, to take the warmest interest—but two of 
these were strictly Artillery pamphlets. The first,—addressed to Lord Derby and 
the Members of the House of Lords and House of Commons—pointed out in 
forcible terms the disadvantageous relative position of our Artillery to the other arms 
of the service, as compared with the Artillery of first class foreign powers, and 
also drew attention to the non-realization of benefits that were expected to accrue to 
