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$02 «Account of the Royal Military College at Eiigh Wycombe. [May 1, 
‘The fums dire&ted to be paid by each 
cadet for education, board, and cloathing, 
are iffued half-yearly, in advance; and 
fhould any cadet leave the college before 
the expiration of the laft half year, 
he will be regularly accounted with for 
the fix months in advance. Every candi- 
date for admiffion muft produce a certifi- 
cate of his age taken from the parith-re- 
gifter, and attefted by a magiftrate. He 
muft be well grounded in the knowledge 
of grammar, and of common arithmetic ; 
he is Jikewife required to write a good 
hand; if he fhould be found deficient in 
any of thefe elementary parts of learning, 
his application will be rejected, or it muft 
be poftponed. ~ 
There is only one vacation in the year, 
viz. December and January: at which 
time the cadets are required to abfent 
themfelves from the college ; and fuch as 
are too diftant from their parents to re- 
turn home, arrangements muft be made 
by their friends to board and lodge them 
with private families during the vacation. 
The cadets are to be formed into com-- 
panies of one hundred each, with the com- 
plement of officers and non commiffioned 
officers according to the eitablifhment of 
a company in his Majefty’s fervice. The 
officers and non-commiffioned officers are 
appointed from cadets of the moft diftin- 
guifhed merit; and they are given the fame 
authority, and the fame duties are required 
of them, as are attached to their refpective 
ranks in the army. 
An officer holding a commiftion in his 
Majelty’s fervice is placed at the head of 
each company of cadets with the rank of 
captain, but under the denomination of an 
inipector.—He unites in his perfon the 
military duties of a captain of a company 
with the refponfibility of infpeétor of ftu- 
dies. A non-commiffioned officer from 
the line is likewife attached to each com- 
pany to do the duties of ferjeant-major. 
The cadet officers and non-commifficned 
officers are required to drill and difcipline 
their refpeétive companies under the in- 
{p: tion of their captains and ferjeant- 
majors. 
The table of the cadet is regulated by 
a board of officers, and they take their 
feats at their rcfpeétive tables, according 
to the rank they hold in their ftudies, as 
reprefented in the weekly report of pro- 
erefs. 
Each cadet fleeps in a feparate bed. 
And the chaplain, who infruéts them in 
the principles of the Chriftian religion, 
conftantly reads prayers when they rife in 
the merning and retire to reft at night. 
Under whatever circumftances the cadets 
are affembied together, they fall into ranks, 
under the fuperintendance of authority, 
and are marched, as a military body, to, 
and from, the place they are required to 
attend ; thereby making military habits 
and cuftoms familiar to them from early 
life, which hereafter they will have to 
fhew the example of to others, and enforce 
in thofe under their command. 
There is an infirmary belonging to the 
inftitution, feparate from the college, te 
which the fick are removed as foon as there 
is the leaft appearance of indifpofition. 
The furgeon refides at the infirmary. 
The ftudies of this department of the 
college are divided into two parts, confift- 
ing of an upper and an under fchool. The 
branches of inftruétion in the under fchool 
are arithmetic, French, Oriental languages, 
the Claffics, writing, drawing (land{cape), 
geography, hiltory, fencing, fwimming, 
military exercifes and duties. 
In the upper fchool the branches of in- 
ftruction confift of mathematics, German, 
fortification, taking military furveys of 
ground, the theory of military taétics, the 
exercife of the fabre, military movements, 
leftures on natural and experimental phi- 
lofophy. 
The ftudies of the under {chool will em- 
ploy eighteen months or two years, and 
the fame time will be found neceflary to 
acquire a knowledge of the inftru&tion 
given in the upper fchool. The ftudies 
are conducted in claffes and divifions of 
progrefs in each branch of inftruétion. 
There are, in the whole, fix claffes, mak- 
ing three in the under, and three in the 
upper {chool of the department. It is a 
relative progrefs in the feveral branches of 
inftru€tion that conftitute claffes. Lan- 
guages and arithmetic are made the bafis 
upon which the removal from junior to 
fenior clafles are principally regulated in 
the under {chool ; in like manner they are 
governed in the upper {chool,by languages 
and mathematics ; thefe in all cafes being 
the moft difficult to acquire. 
Half-yeariy examinations are held with 
a view to afcertain the progrefs of the 
cadets in their ftudies, to remove from the 
under to the upper fchool of the depart- 
ment fuch as fhall be qualified, and from 
the upper fchool to the army, thofe who 
are educated upon the foundation, and 
have completed their courfe of inftrué€tion. 
At the former of thefe examinations, which 
are held before the collegiate board, badges 
of diftinétion are diftibuted to cadets, ac- 
cording to the progrefs they are found to 
have made. ‘hele honorary diftinétions 
carry 
