Wheel your batten ere you fight, For better advantage to the right, Or left, or round about To either angle, or where you doubt Your enemie will first oppose you; And therefore unto their Foot close you. Divisionall wheeling I have seen In sundrie places practis'd been, To alter either form or figure, By wheeling severall wayes together. And, had I time to stand upon 't, I'de wheele my wings into the front. By wheeling flanks into the reare, They'll soon reduce them as they were. Besides, it seems a pretty thing To wheel, front, and reare to either wing: Wheele both wings to the reare and front; Face to the reare, and having done 't, Close your divisions; even your ranks, Wheel front and reare into both flanks: And thus much know, cause, note I'll smother, To one wheeling doth reduce the other. _Conversion and Inversion._ One thing more and I have done; Let files rank by conversion: To th' right, or th' left, to both, and then Ranks by conversion fill again: Troop for the colours, march, prepare for fight, Behave yourselves like men, and so good night. The summe of all that hath been spoken may be comprised thus: Open, close, face, double, countermarch, wheel, charge, retire; Invert, convert, reduce, trope, march, make readie, fire." ANON. * * * * * LEADING ARTICLES OF FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS. The foreign correspondence of the English press is an invaluable feature of that mighty engine of civilisation and progress, for which the world cannot be too thankful; but as the agents in it at Paris, Berlin, Vienna, &c., are more or less imbued with the insular views and prejudices which they carry with them from England, Scotland, or Ireland, it were well if the daily journals devoted more attention than they do to the _leading articles_ of the Continental press, which is frequently distinguished by great ability and interest, and would {219} enable Englishmen, not versed in foreign languages, to judge, from another point of view, of Continental affairs--now becoming of surpassing interest and importance. Translations or abstracts of the leading articles of _The Times_, _Morning Chronicle_, _Morning Post_, &c., are constantly to be met with in the best foreign papers. Why should not our great London papers more frequently gratify their readers with articles from the pens of their Continental brotherhood? This would afford an opportunity also of correcting the false statements, or replying to the erroneous judgments put forth and circulated abroad by writers whose distinguished position enables them, unintentionally no doubt, to do the more mischief. A surprising change for the better, however, as respects Great Britain, is manifest in the tone and information of the foreign press of late years. Let us cherish this good feeling by a corresponding demeanour on our part. ALPHA. * * * * * Minor Notes.