Zünd-nadel Guns

In paper of September or October last, I saw a letter dated Berlin, Sept. 11, which commenced— "We have had this morning a splendid military spectacle, and being the first of the kind since the revolution, attracted immense crowds to the scene of action." "The Fusileer battalions (light infantry) were all armed with the new zünd-nadel guns, the advantages and superiority of which over the common percussion musket now admits of no contradiction, with the sole exception of the facility of loading being an inducement to fire somewhat too quick, when firing independently, as in battle, or when act…