Patriots in Arnis (Whittaker and Co.) is the title given
by Mr. Thomas Preston, "ox-Lieutenant, R.V.," to a small collection of ad- dresses and sermons by celebrated preachers of the last century in praise of the Volunteer movement to which the threatened invasion of our shores by the Great Napoleon gave birth. It is interesting at this date to learn that the Bidlops, nod even such" Evangelicals" as Cecil and Rowland used much the same phraseology as we hear in our pulpits now-a-days, in speaking of the necessity and praise- worthiness of war, when not is war of aggression. The frontispiece is a reproduction, by photography, of Rowlandson's rare and curious drawing of the first great review of the "London and Westminster Light Horse Volunteers," under Colonel Berries, in the presence of George III. mid his Court, on Wimbledon Common, in July, 1708.
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