1803. ] Account of the Royal Military College at High Wycombe. 303 
carry with them privileges and indulgen- 
cies not in common to other cadets. A 
cadet, educated on the foundation, who 
fhall not complete his ftudies in four years 
will be removed from the eftablifhment. 
The punifhments are military, confift- 
ing generally of open and clofe arreft, and 
expulfion if requifite: corporal punifh- 
ment is wholly precluded. 
The cadets are under the fuperintend- 
ance of the mafters only during the hours 
of ftudy ; nor have they any communica- 
tion with them excepting when under in- 
ftruSion. At all other times they are 
fubject to the direétion of military officers. 
This department is under the orders of 
a commandant, who is relponfible to the 
governor and lieutenant governor, for the 
difcipline and inftru€tion of the depart- 
ment: this officer is required to bear the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army. 
Both departments are fubject to the 
commands of a governor and lieutenant- 
governor, the former of whom requires to 
hold the rank of general officer, the latter 
not under that of lieutenant-colonel. 
The collegiate board confifts of the go- 
vernor, lieutenant governor, commandant, 
and fuperintendant of each department. 
The fupreme board of commiffioners is 
conftituted by warrant from his Majefty, 
and, with the exception of fuch general 
officers as his Majefty may be plealed to 
nominate commiffioners, its members fuc- 
ceed in virtue of the appointments they 
hold in the general ftaff of the army. The 
commander in chief, the fecretary at war, 
matter general of the ordnance, barrack- 
mafter general, quartermafter and adju- 
tant-generals, the governor, and lieute- 
nant-governor of the eftablifhment are all 
conftituent members of the board, and 
hold their appointments only during the 
time they are on the ftaff, by which means 
the college unites in its adminiftration the 
joint affiftance of the great military de- 
partments of the country, without being 
fubject to the individual controul of any. 
The military command is made diftin& 
from the adminiftration, and is confined to 
the dire&tion of the commander in chief, 
according to the rules of military difci- 
pline ; confequently, whatever is military 
in the conduct of the inftitution proceeds 
from the commander in chief: but all 
matters relating to the interior govern- 
ment can originate alone with the fupreme 
board, at which the commander in chief 
prefides, combining thereby both the mi- 
litary and civil fuperintendance of the col- 
lege. In like manner the governor, and 
in his abfence the licutenant-governor, 
unite the civil and military fuperintend- 
ance at the college, correfpondent with the 
influence of the commander in chief over 
the inftirution in general ; alike poffeffing 
dire&t authority in all cafes of military 
command ; whilft in matters of adminiftra- 
tion they are directed by a majority of 
opinion at the boards where they refpec- 
tively prefide. — - 
Ail appointments to the college of 
officers and profeffors and perfons con- 
nected with the ftudies, being previoufly 
exainined and recommended by the col- 
legiate board, are approved by the mem- 
bers of the {upreme board before their no- 
mination can be effected. : 
The military officers hold their appoint- 
ments by commiffion from his Majetty, at 
the recommendation of the fupreme board, 
The members of the fupreme board de- 
rive no advantage or emolument from their 
appointments as commiflioners. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SHALL be much obliged to one of 
your Correfpondents to inform me, 
through the medium of theMonthly Maga. 
zine, whether any perfon is engaged in 
conftruéting a Dictionary of Words in the 
fymbolic character, on the plan recom- 
mended by Dr. Anderfon, in the 6th 
vol. of his Recreations in Agriculture, 
&c.? As the fymbolic character would 
not only enable people of different lan- 
guages to underftand the books, letters, 
&c. of each other ; but would form a moft 
excellent fhort-hand, far fuperior to any 
now in ufe; I fhould hope that a fubfcrips 
tion for fuch an importantand ufeful work. 
would be liberally fupported. 
A CONSTANT READER. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
iy ae se eee a letter in your Maga- 
zine of March Jatt, from the Rev. 
Edmund Cartwright, refpecting the pas 
tent bricks invented by nim, and as my 
name is mentioned, alluding to fome 
bricks of my own invention, which Mr. 
Cartwright fays,‘*muft be thofe of his own 
invention,” I beg leave, in order toexplain 
this bufinefs to the public, to obferve, that 
the bricks you have mentioned in your 
Magazine of December laft, were of m 
own invention, and have no fimilitude 
to thofe of Mr, Cartwright’s, being to- 
tally of a different conftruction. 
I agree with Mr. Cartwright, that I 
made ule of his bricks in arching a cie~ 
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