¦YJOJE-WHniVIEIBm'Y- - iLHiaiaaisrar • jqo7 THE ROYAL miitaxv Calen&ar, H. Mil. Cat. s THE (BY PERMISSION.) ROYAL JWUlitarp Calendar* CONTAINING THE SERVICES OF EVERY GENERAL OFFICER IN "THE. , BRITISH ARMY, FROM THE DATE OF THEIR FIRST COMMISSION. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THF. OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY ON THE EASTERN COAST OF SPAIN IN 1812-13. BY JOHN PHILIPPART, ESQ. editor of the royal military panorama: author of the northern campaigns of 1812 and 1813: campaign in Germany and france : memoirs of general moreau" : memoirs of the prince royal of swe den : and other military works: And Late Private Secretary to the Right Hon. Lord Sheffield. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed by A. J. Valpy, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane; SOLD BY T. EGERTON, WHITEHALL; •ALSO BY SHERWOOD NEELY AND JONES, PATERNOSTER-ROW; C. J. BARRINGTON, STRAND; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. 1815. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE BRITISH ARMY, K.G. and G.C.B. cuts amotft IS, WITH PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS MOST DUTIFUL, OBLIGED, AND OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, JOHN PHILIPPART. King's Road, Feb. 28, 1813. Lately published, in One Volume, Demy Octavo, Price 14*. And may be had of all Booksellers, in Town and Country. MEMOIRS OF General iftloreau, DEDICATED (BY PERMISSION) TO MADAME MOREAU; Embellished with an elegant engraved Portrait of the General, taken a few weeks before his Death ; a Fac-Siniile of his last Letter to Madame Moreau ; and a beautifully engraved Plan of the Siege of Kehl, and Passage of the Rhine in 1796. BY J. PHLLIPPART, ESQ, " Mr. Phjlippart has given, in the work before us, a good connected nar rative of what may be termed the public life of this distinguished Soldier, and is entitled to our thanks." New Monthly Mag.for March, 1814. " Every event connected with the public and private life of General Moreau, the Author has drawn together, and embodied with the utmost fidelity and circumspection." European Mag. for March, 1814. Also Just Published, price 1 6s. Dedicated, by Permission, to Ma- dame La Baronne De St'del Holstein. Embellished with a most beautiful Portrait. MEMOIRS AND CAMPAIGNS OF Tbt prince &opai of gtoeisen, BY THE SAME. . « Mr. P. is sufficiently known as having in a degree appropriated to himself this department of Literature, and we think with no small de, gree ot success. He appears to have some excellent channels for the collec tion of data, and his industry in the disposition of them must be appre ciated by all : but we regard in him a higher source of praise, that of iu- ^S^^t^jS^ and honorable motlves in their * King's Road, Feb. 28, 1815. Sia, The countenance afforded to this work by the gracious permission, your Royal Highness has condescendingly granted me, t)f Dedicating it to you, is most gratifying and flattering to my feelings.- I have not, however, pretended to offer Your Royal Highness that adulation which is so universally prevalent in Dedications addressed to Illustrious and Exalted Characters, as I am con- scious it must be revolting to a princely mind, and I may add, the task would be disagreable to one who lays claim to any degree of liberal feel- V1U ing ; but I may freely observe that the innate satis faction which alone can be grateful to the mind of an Illustrious Soldier, your Royal Highness ac quires from the solicitude with which you watch over the interests of every member of the military profession. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Royal Highness's much obliged, devoted, and humble servant, J. PHILIPPART. To Field Marshal His Royal Highness THE DUKE OF YORK, &c. &c. &c. a&toertteemcnt In the attempt to delineate the military career of those officers who have arrived at the highest ranks in a service, which, from the admirable sys tem of order and discipline infused into every branch, has acquired for its members a renown in the eyes of Europe only to be equalled by the never dying fame of our naval heroes, the Editor feels assured, that an account explanatory of the undertaking, will not be considered by the army and the public as improperly intrusive. When on the point of discontinuing the Royal Military Panorama, the cause of which is explained - X in his letter addressed to the Officers of the Army, the Editor was recommended by some of those Offi cers who have always done him the honor to sup port his military writings, to undertake the biogra phies ofthe General Officers in the British service : that task, affording as it would, an extensive range for illustration and comment, he found might have been productive of much discontent to many of the Officers who would necessarily appear in the publication: and he therefore presumed that an abstract ofthe services of all, specifying the places, periods, and, where possible, the description of service, together with the appointments received, and the progress of promotion, would be more con genial and satisfactory to so numerous a class of officers, than a review of their several operations, which, whilst it might provoke endless discussion and dissent, would be by many considered as open to favoritism and prejudice. In the present undertaking the Editor has unre mittingly employed every exertion to furnish a correct statement of the services of each individual XI ,, General Officer : and he may presume that he has in a great degree been successful in his object, the principal part of the statements contained in the work, having been deemed minutely correct by the friends of the individuals to whom they relate. He must nevertheless admit that some few may have seen more service than what will be found affixed to their names : but it must at the same time be observed that he has made every application, both publicly and privately, to ascertain the full extent of each officer's military life, and as he at the same time specifically stated in the plan of the work, sub- mitted to every General Officer and his friends, that it did not admit of comment, he cannot but regret that any officer should have felt desirous to with hold from public knowledge and observation, his fair and honorable services. Errors that were unavoidable in the first edition of a Work of this description the Editor will en deavour to correct hereafter, and for that purpose he invites the free and unreserved correspondence of every officer, and supporter of the Royal Mili- Xll tary Calendar, on points that may improve its original plan, and remedy mistakes or omissions. To state the precise services of a body so nume rous as the General Officers in the British army, cannot but be admitted as a laborious and difficult task : and that consideration will, perhaps, be a sufficient excuse for any editorial inaccuracies that may appear in this edition : but having once brought the undertaking into a regular form, the Editor will be enabled to enlarge, and he flatters himself, im prove it, should the reception of the first justify a future edition of the work. The Editor has great satisfaction in considering that on an examination of these pages, it will be found by even the most fastidious and sceptical ob server, that the greater part of the General Offi cers have arrived at high rank and distinctions from a series of personal services that have raised the military character of this country to a height that must obtain the admiration of all ages. xiii The period at which the Royal Military Calen dar appears, the Editor considers as one truly au spicious to such an undertaking : at the conclusion of a long, vigorous, and oftentimes doubtful strug gle for the rights of nations ; and the commence ment of a peace, glorious in itself, and which, to all human perception, wears the aspect of permanency : a peace effected more by British wealth, consis tency, and valor, than by all the efforts of those powers, whose vital strength was exhausting by its protraction. These considerations, combined with the knowledge that the British army bore a distin guished share in the grand denouement, induce him to hope that a commemorative display of the valuable services of the General Officers will be received with approbation by their fellow citizens. Communications for the ' ROYAL MILI TARY CALENDAR/ as well as for XIV « A MILITARY HISTORY of Great Britain, from the period of the Con quest to the present time,' on the plan of ' Campbell's Lives of the Admirals,' and a prospectus of which is introduced at the end of the second volume, are request ed to be addressed to the Editor at the Royal Military Calendar Office, at Mr. Egerton's, Whitehall. A List of Communications received too late for insertion in this Work, are inserted at the end of the second Volume. XV CONTENTS OF VOL. I. Ko. Ko. Jietb HaarjShaljS 1 to 5 •• aSeneralg 6 •• 121 •• flfeutenant <6en«alji 122 • . 343 . . H&ajor Generals? 344 • • 419 •• 1 to Pige- 42 43 • . 131 132 . . 304 305 . * 360 CONTENTS OF VOL. EL No. No. Pije. Page. fftfljui 433enera[^ continued •• 420 to 667 " 1 to 178 Regulations relating to General Officers .... 1 79 The Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath . . 213 Captains-General and Commanders-in-Chief . . . 240 Board of Ordnance 242 XVI Royal Marines » •- 2*8 General Officers holding situations in the Military De partments 251 Medals issued to General Officers in Commemoration of Brilliant and distinguished Events 256 Officers who have been appointed Aides-de-Camp to the King 258 Ditto to H. R. H. the Duke of York 260 Military Secretaries to H. R. H. the Commander-in- Chief . ib. Biographies of British Military Officers contained in the Royal Military Panorama 262 Alphabetical Index to the Names of General Officers, whose services are given in this Work .... 264 . APPENDIX. Narrative of the Operations of the Army employed on the Eastern Coast of Spain in 1812-13. General Index to Names, Places, Battles, &c. mentioned in this Work. Acknowledgments to Correspondents. ftelD 2$M8tyal&. In conformity with the wishes of several General Officers who served under the Duke of York in Flanders and Holland, the Editor has in a small degree deviated from the original Plan of this undertaking, and given a correct though brief d f t a 1 L ofthe services of his Royal Highness. This single deviation, however, he conceives will prove acceptable to the Army : and it may be of utility and interest to the readers of this work, as in general the periods only being- given of every other Officer's service in those countries, it wilt show in which operations they were respectively engaged. Field Marshal His Royal Highness Frederick Duke of York, K.G and Commander in Chief, Colonel of the 1st Foot Guards, and Colonel in Chief of the GOth Foot. In presenting the army an accurate Memoir of the Duke of York, I shall confine myself chiefly to the events of his Royal Highness's military career, in the course of which he acquired that experience and knowledge in the art of war, which have enabled him to discharge the duties of his high office in such a manner as to have gained the appro bation of his Sovereign, and the unbounded respect, esteem, and lively gratitude ofthe whole army. Whether we look to the excellent system introduced throughout every branch of the service under the immediate direction of His Royal Highness, or to those noble institutions founded and protected by his fostering care, for the education of youths em bracing a military profession, the relief of the maimed and veteran soldiers, and the comfort of the widows and children of those who have bravely fallen in defence of their country's dearest rights ; the Duke of York, from whose expansive mind and feeling heart all have originated, must be considered as having contributed most essentially to the present military renown of the British arms, and as being justly intitled to the appellation of the soldier's friend. The Duke of York was born l6th of August, 1763, and elected Bishop of Osnaburg on Feb. 27, 1764. From his earliest age H.R. H. was destined to the profession of arms, the study of which formed an essential part of his education. In pursuance of this object, and the acquirement of the French and German languages, he was sent by tbe R. M. Cal. Vol. I. A 2 jpiclD MmWt* King to the Continent, in the year 1 780, and continued abroad until 1787 ; his established residence during that period being Hanover, from whence he made excursions to various parts of Germany, visiting Vienna, Berlin, and other capitals, and also attending the reviews of the immortal Frederick, and acquiring a minute knowledge of th« theory and practice of Prussian tactics, at that period considered the model for imitation of every military man. His first commission in the army was that of Colonel, and dated on the 1st Nov. 1780 ; shortly after he was appointed to tlie command of the Horse Grenadier Guards, and in Oct. 178 4., to that of the Cold stream Regiment of Guards. He returned to the Continent in 1791, for the purpose of serving as a volunteer with the Prussian army, in the event of a war with Russia, which, however, did not take place. On the 29th Sept. 1791. His Royal Highness was married to the Princess Royal of Prussia, with whom shortly after he returned to England, where, with this amiable Princess, he passed his days tran quilly in the enjoyment of domestic felicity, until the period when Great Britain took a part in the revolutionary war on the Continent, when His Royal Highness was selected for the command of a small corps of British troops destined to co-operate in the defence of Holland, which had been invaded by a French army under General Dumouriez, to whom Breda and Gestruydenbeg surrendered towards the end of February. H. R. H. having upon this occasion been promoted to the rank of Lieut-General, proceeded with a brigade of Guards, and some artil lery, which landed at Helvoet Sluys on the 1st March, and the suc cesses of the Austrian arms having soon after removed the war from the frontiers of Holland, he joined the allied Austrian and Prussian army ; his force having been increased at Antwerp by a brigade of the line, subsequently at Tournay by some regiments of British dragoons, and successively augmented by a considerable body, of Hanoverian and Hessian troops, taken into British pay. The first affairs at which H. R. H. assisted, occurred in the neighr bourhood of Tournay, and near St. Amand and Vicogne, in the month of May, in the course of which he was promoted to the rank of Ge neral. In the subsequent battle of Famars, on the 23d May, he com manded a principal column ofthe allied army, and bore a distinguished •hare in the success of that brilliant day, the result of which was the investment and siege of Valenciennes. The direction of this operation was entrusted to H. R. H. while the Prince of Coburg covered it on the side of Bouchain and Cambrai, on. the left bank of the Scheldt* H. R. H. THE DUKE OF YORK. 3 Valenciennes having capitulated on the 28th July, the Duke of York joined the main army, and co-operated on the 7th and 8th of August in the movements against the enemy's positions at the camp de Cesar, Bois de Bourlon, &c. upon the line of the Scheldt, from all which they were dispossessed, or retired, although without material loss, thanks to the indecision and slowness of the movements of the allied army, against which 11. R. H. had in vain remonsl rated in frequent communications to the Prince of Hohenlohe, then Quarter-Masterr General, who had objected to an earlier and more decided movement of the army' on the 8th, by which the enemy's retreat would have been intercepted. The Prince of Coburg, after these operations, laid seige lo Quesnoy, and subsequently invested Maubeuge, while the Duke of York con tinued his march in the direction of Orchies, Tourcoing, and Menin, with the British, Hanoverian and Hessian troops, to which was added a body of Austrians, under the orders of Lieut.-General Alvintzy. The object of this separation was the siege of Dunkirk, which had been determined upon by the British Cabinet, and which was viewed with regret, not only by the Austrian Chiefs, but also by II. R. H., who had remonstrated against it, as far as he could ; at the same time that, when he found his representations unavailing, he proceeded with the utmost zeal to the execution of a measure, from which may rea sonably be dated the subsequent reverse of fortune on the French frontier. The Dutch troops were to cover the march of II. R. H.'s. army by the frontier of West Flanders, but having on the 1 8th August been driven with loss' from several posts, which they occupied during the passage of the British troops through Menin, H. R. H. ordered the brigade of Guards to their support, which occasioned the action of Lincelles, in which that corps so greatly distinguished itself. After this His Royal Highness proceeded without further interrupt tion to Furnes, whence he advanced with a part of his force by Gyveldt towards Dunkirk, while F. M. Frey tag, with the remainder, took the direction of Bergues and Mount -Cassel, in order to cover the opera tions of the siege. As it is not intended here to enter into any detailed narrative of the operations of the campaign, we shall content ourselves with stating, that after a succession of severe and sanguinary actions, fought by the besieging and covering armies with success, though without any positive effect, the priucipal of which occurred on the 24th August, (when the gallant General D'AIton fell,) and on the 6th and fcth Sept. ; the Duke of York found himself under the necessity of raising the siege, and retiring to Furnes on the night of the 8th Sept. 4 tftelb naarjlhaljj. in consequence of the covering army being driven from Bambecke, Roesbrugge, Rexpoede, &c. on the 6th, and defeated on the 8th by Gen. Houchard, near Hondschoote, by which His Royal Highness's left flank and rear were exposed, and his communications rendered in secure. His Royal Highness had contended with perseverance against numerous and increasing difficulties, arising from the rapid accumula tion of the enemy's means of resistance, the delay on the part of the British government in forwarding the necessary ordnance and stores, and the neglect in providing any means of naval co-operation, even such as might secure H. R. H.'s positions from molestation by the enemy's small craft on the coast. The retreat was effected in good order, and without any other loss than that of the heavy iron ordnance, which, being on ship carriages, could not be removed, and the army re-assembled at Furnes and Dixmude. His Roval Highness's corps after this was stationed for some time on the frontier of West Flanders, (the head-quarters being at Dixmude and Thoraut), occasionally co-operating with General Beaulieu in repelling the enemy's attacks upon Menin, and other points. Toward* the middle of October, H. R. H. moved with 6000 men, chiefly British, to the support of the Prince of Coburg, then before Maubeuge. He made a rapid march to Englefontaine, where he arrived on the l6th, the day on which was fought the battle of Wattignies, in consequence of which, although both parties, considering the advantage to be with the enemy, had retired from the field, and although the Austrian army was superior in number and quality of troops, the Prince of Coburg thought fit to abandon the operation in which he was engaged. The Duke of York returned to Tournay, in which place, and the neighbourhood, he continued until the close ofthe campaign. On the 22d and 26th Oct. the enemy were repulsed in some attempts upon his advanced posts near Baisieux and Cysoiug. On the 28th Oct. H. R. H. made an attack upon Lannoy, in co-operation with a move ment, which General Walmoden undertook, by his direction, against Menin, which the enemy had occupied. The result of these opera tions was the evacuation by the enemy of Menin, and their abandon ment of the investment of Ypres, and of the siege of Nieuport, which they had been encouraged by H. R. H.'s march to Englefontaine to undertake. In the defence of Nieuport, part of a detachment which had lauded at Ostend, under Sir Charles Grey, as a temporary reinforcement to the i>ake of York's army, had co-operated. H. R. H. THE DUKE OF YORK. 5 On the 29th of October a very brilliant attack and surprise of the enemy and fortified post of Marchiennes, in which they lost more than 2000 men, was executed by General Kray, under the orders of H. R. H. Some trifling affairs in front of Tournay, and on the Lys, towards the end of November, terminated the campaign in West Flanders. The army went into winter quarters; the Duke of York's head quarters being at Ghent, whence, attended by General Mack, he pro ceeded to England, to concert the plan and measures for the ensuing campaign with the British government. In the month of Feb. 1794, H. R. H. returned from England to COurtrai, to which place the British head-quarters had been removed upon a forward concentration ofthe cantonments. The army had been considerably reinforced by drafts for the British regiments, and by additional corps of Hanoverians, Hessians, and Darmstadt troops, taken into British pay. The troops under his command moved suc cessively to Tournay, St. Aniand, and the plains of Cateau, where the greater part of the allied army was united under the command of the Emperor on the 1 6th April. On . the following day a general and successful attack was made upon the enemy's positions at Vaux, Pre- mont, Marets, Catillon, &c, and Landrecies was immediately invested. H. R. H. commanded the right wing; of the covering array during the siege. A detachment of cavalry from his corps gained a considerable advantage on the 24th April, near Villers en Cauchie, towards Cambrai, ar.d on the 26th H. R. H. completely defeated, near Troixville, with great slaughter, and the loss of 35 pieces of cannon, a corps of 30,000 men, which, under the orders of General Chapuy, attacked his position. General Chapuy was taken prisoner, with a considerable number of officers and men. In consequence of the serious diversion made by General Pichegru on West Flanders, which was favored by the absence of General Clei> fayt, who had marched with a considerable portion of his force from Tournay to support tbe post of Deuain, Sir W. Erskine was detached on that very evening (26th April) with apart of H. R. H.'s corps, and the Duke of York followed on the 30th, as soon as Landrecies had fallen, with the remainder which reached Tournay, by forced marches, on the 1st and 2d of May. In the mean time General Pichegru had obtained possession of Courtrai, defeated General Clerfayt at Mouscron on the 29th April, and invested Menin ; from which, however, General Hammerstein, with four battalions of Hanoverians, and four companies of Emigrants), 6" iffeft Barbate. cut his way through the enemy on the 30th April, and effected his retreat to Ingelmunster. On the 10th May the enemy, in consider able force attacked the Duke of York's position in front of Tournay, but H R H. by a judicious and well executed flank movement of the cavalry, defeated and drove them across the Marque with a great loss of men and that of 13 pieces of cannon. Towards Courtrai, however, General Clerfayt had, with very inferior numbers, made some gallant though unsuccessful attempts to retrieve affairs ; the situation of which in West Fla ders becoming daily more critical from the great increase of the enemy's force in that quarter, the Emperor sent reinforcements to Tournay under General Kinsky ; and finally moved to that point himself with the greater part of his army, after providing for the de fence of the line ofthe Sambre; thus abandoning offensive operations in tbe centre. The general attacks of the 17th and 18th May, were the result of this assembly of the allied force. The circumstances attending them-, the failure of the operations and the share which H. R. H.'s corps had in the events of these days, and in the loss sustained, are generally known. Suffice it to say, that H. R. H. executed most zealously the directions which he received from the Emperor, and may indeed be said to have alone, of all those entrusted with the direction of columns, fulfilled the part assigned to him on the first day, while the disaster which attended his corps on the 18th, was imputable solely to want of co-operation on the part of those who were to have supported him, principally ofthe Arch-duke Charles's column moving from the Marque, and to the postponement of General Clerfayt's movement from the 17th to the 18th, who was to have co-operated on the first of those days from the Lys. H. R. H.'s corps was thus left to contend against the entire force of the enemy, who were enabled to assail it in front, flank, and rear. Every exertion of gallantry was unavailing against such fearful odds, so disposed ; and the retreat was with difficulty, and with a loss proportionate to the arduous nature of a contest, maintained against large masses of troops whose attention was to have been engaged by the Arch-duke Charles on the one side, and General Clerfayt on the other. The former never moved from Pont a Marque, the latter did not cross the Lys, until after the Duke of York's corps had been surrounded and defeated. Had the Emperor's orders been as punctually executed by the Arch-duke and General Clerfayt, as they were by the Duke of York, the result could not have been dis astrous, although it might not have succeeded to the full extent pro- H. R. H. THE DUKE OF YORK. 7 posed ; the attacking columns being certainly too little connected, and an operation which engaged two days, affording sufficient time to the •nemy to collect their force. To- prove that no blame was considered to attach to the Duke of York, or the gallant troops under his orders on this occasion, it is only necessary to quote the following extract of a letter from the Prince of Coburg, addressed to H. R. H. soon after the event. " Sa Majeste m'enjoint de donner a V. A. R. les assurances les plus positives que non senlement elle est parfaitement satisfaite de la maniere pleine de zele, d'intelligence, et de valeur dont V. A. R. ses braves generaux, et ses braves troupes ont execute tous les mouvemens qui ont eu lieu successivement dans les journees du 17 et du 18, mais qu'elle lui donne par cette lettre le temoignage cer tain et bien decidement irrecusable que V. A. R. n'a fait aucune manoeuvre, qui n'ait ete une suite essentielle de la disposition geuerale, ou qu'elle n'ait engage V. A. R. a faire par les messages successifs, que dans le courant de l'affaire elle a rep u de ce Monarque." The allies resumed their positions in front of Tournay, the left wing being formed of the troops under the Duke of York's orders. Upon this position, or rather the right and centre of it, General Pichegru made a formidable attack on the 22nd, for which he had collected nearly 100,000 men. With the exception, however, of successive attacks on the posts near Templeuve, and on the village of Pontechin in which the contest was close and sanguinary ; and by which it ap- appcared to be General Pichegru's object to penetrate to the Scheldt and Tournay ; the battle, which was maintained from day-break until late in the evening, was an useless fire of cannon and musketry, between lines forming nearly parallels to each other. The village of Pontechin on the right, was taken and retaken several times in the course of the day, and was alternately disputed by Austrians, Dutch, and British ; the Duke of York having detached Major General Fox's Brigade from the left, to the support of that point, the effort made by this brigade decided the contest, and the village remained in the pos session of the allies. General Pichegru retired towards dark, after sustaining considerable loss, and no attempt was made by the allies to interrupt his retreat. The enemy left seven pieces of cannon in the hands of the allies. Towards the end of May, the Emperor proceeded to the Sambre with a strong reinforcement, drawn from the position near Tournay ; in which the allies, under the command of the Prince of Coburg, 8 tftefo Jftattfljai.*. were consequently obliged to remain on the defensive. General Cler fayt in the meantime had continued at Thielt, to which place he had retired after the failure of the general attack on the 18th. General Pichegru, shortly after the defeat experienced near Tour nay, directed his attention to Ypres, which lie caused a part of his army under General Moreau to invest, and of which he commenced the siege early in June. At this period the enemy's operations on the Sambre, had been prosecuted with increased vigor; and they had frequently crossed that river with a view to the siege of Charleroi, and as often been defeated and forced to repass it, by General Kaunitz and the Prince of Orange; who successively commanded the allied. army on that line. The Emperor had joined it on the 1st June, with the reinforcement, and on the 3rd, completely defeated the enemy, and drove them across the Sambre ; his Imperial Majesty proceeded to Brussels on his way to Vienna, but returned to Tournay on the 10th, for a few hours, and then resumed his journey. In consequence of this advantage on the Sambre, the Prince of Coburg drew from thence a small reinforcement to the corps at Tour nay, and for that under the orders of General Clerfayt, which latter also received a few battalions from Tournay. — General Clerfayt, who had not ventured to interrupt the siege of Ypres, which was conducted by General Moreau, and covered by a corps under General Souham posted near Passendael and Hoogleede, was ordered to make an attempt for its relief, in which a part of the army from Tournay was to co operate by movements towards Courtrai and the Lys, where General Bonueau was stationed with another French corps of observation. These were attempted on the 9th and resumed on the 10th, but sus pended in consequence of some very insignificant demonstrations made by the enemy from the Marque towards the posts in front of Tournay, while General Clerfayt, who, in execution of the general plan, attacked the enemy on the 10th near Hoogleede, was repulsed, and forced to retire on Thielt. General Clerfayt renewed the attempt on the 13th by a very vigo rous attack on the enemy's positions at Hoogleede and Rousselaer; the contest was obstinate, but, although commenced with some appear ance of success, proved ultimately unavailing.— General Clerfayt re tired upon Thielt, General Hammerstein, with the Hanoverian troops, forming part of Clerfayfs corps, on Thorout, whence he continued his retreat to Bruges, after detaching to Ostend the 8th light dragoons and 38th and 5jth British regiments, which (with the nth infaufry) had II. R. II. THE DUKE OF YORK. 9 arrived at Ostend from England early in May, had formed part of General Clerfayl's corps since the middle of that month, and had dis tinguished themselves by their conduct on various occasions. The 12th regiment had remained iu Ostend. — When this intelligence reached Tournay, the Duke of York proposed to renew the effort without loss of time, and for that purpose he urged a junction ofthe whole force from Tournay with General Clerfayt. This vigorous mea sure, which alone offered a prospect of retrieving affairs, was, how ever, objected to by the Prince of Coburg and other Austrian gene rals, on the score of its uncovering Tournay, and they dwelt on the expediency of waiting tor a small reinforcement from the Sambre be fore any further attempt should be made. Experience ought by this time to have shown to them the ruinous effects of the attempt to preserve any point of a long line by the form ation of several corps at intervals too great to enable them to afford to each other immediate or effectual support. Whilst these events were passing in West Flanders, the enemy, having been reinforced by 30,000 men under General Jourdan, had recrossed the Sambre, and had again been defeated by the Prince of Orange with considerable loss. — The Prince of Cobui -g, who had continued iu the command of the troops near Tournay, encouraged by this success, determined to renew the attempt for the relief of Ypres, by a more direct movement, iu which General Clerfayt was to have closely co-operated, but still leaving a considerable part of the army near Tournay. The troops destined for this operation (of which the British under the Duke of York constituted a proportion) were however not put in motion until the 18th, when they crossed the Scheldt and proceeded to Pottes and Escaiiailles, whence the Prince of Coburg retraced his steps on the following day, upon learning that tlie enemy had again crossed the Sambre, and that the march of the reinforcement from thence (trifling as it was,) had been suspended. At all events this dilatory movement would not have saved Ypres, which surrendered on the 17th, the garrison being prisoners of war. The enemy, sensible of the superior importance of prosecuting their operations on the Sambre, and having received fresh reinforcements, had again crossed that river on the lSth, and resumed the siege of Charleroi.— Upon this, the Prince of Coburg determined to join the Prince of Orange with nearly the whole of tlie Austrian troops from Tournay, where the Duke of York was left with forces wholly inade quate to the task of defending the position near that town, if it should 10 Jfitltx -H&argfjatf.. fee attacked, or of maintaining the possession of any portion of West Flanders against the superior numbers which General Pichegru was at liberty to direct upon various points. Recent measures had confirmed the suspicion for some time enter- tertained by His Royal Highness, that the Austrian cabinet had de termined on the abandonment of the Netherlands, and certainly of West Flanders, for the maintenance of which the British cabinet, on the other hand, was most solicitous. — His Royal Highness had in vaiis remonstrated against the establishment of a system of warfare so inju rious to Great Britain, and had equally in vain urged, upon every oc* Casion, the adoption of more vigorous attempts towards checking the enemy by a concentration of means and efforts. This jarring of inte rests between the two countries increased the irritation and jealousy which had resulted from the failure on tbe 18th of May, upon which occasion the British troops accused the Austrians (not without reason) of having sacrificed them.- The Duke of York was well aware of these- feelings, and had himself ample reason to be hurt and mortified by the inattention shown to his advice, and the turn which affairs had taken ; but his endeavours were invariably directed to the preservation of har mony, and while the Austrian generals resisted his urgent representa tions, they acknowledged the spirit of conciliation which influenced His Royal Highness's language, and the zeal with which he was ever ready to co-operate in any measure tending to the support of the ge neral cause. On the 20th June General Pichegru advanced towards the Mandel and obliged General Clerfayt to retire upon Deynse. This movement of the enemy, by bringing them nearer to the Scheldt, rendered the Duke of York's position in front of Tournay, which, since the depar ture of the Prince of Coburg, had been hazardous, no longer tenable, and H. R. H. quitted it on the 24th June, with all the British and a part of the Hessian troops, (leaving only a small garrison, or rather a rear guard, in the town), and encamped between Renaix and Oude- narde, with a view to the support of the latter place, which the enemy threatened, and in order to preserve a connection with General Cler fayt, which their late movements had interrupted. The Prince of Coburg had joined the Prince of Orange towards Ni- velles on the 22d. He delayed the attack ofthe enemy until the 26tb, although the object was the relief of Charleroi, which he knew to be hard pressed, and which in fact capitulated on the 25th. Upon learn ing this event he suspended the attacks m which his columns were cn> H. R. H. THE DUKE OF YORK. It gaged, at the very moment when they afforded a fair prospect of suc cess which, independently of its general effect, would probably have recovered CharlerQi, the more limited object of the battle of Fleurus. This was the last effort which the Austrians even pretended to make for the preservation of the Netherlands, and their operations during the remainder ofthe campaign, were a series of retreats which carried them across the Rhine, and which naturally influenced every succes sive movement of the Duke of York's army. His Royal Highness had continued in his position at Renaix, whence he supported Oudenarde, against which General Pichegru had sent a detachment, while he obliged General Clerfayt to abandon his position at Deynse and to re tire upon Ghent; upon this, General Walmoden with the Hanoverians evacuated Bruges and fell back upon Landemark, where he joined the right flank of General Clerfayt. The enemy again attacked General Clerfayt near Ghent, but were repulsed. The consequence of these movements was the interception of the communication with Ostend, where Lord Moira had arrived from England on the 26th June with a reinforcement of 5,000 infantry. His Lordship, however, determined to attempt a junction with H. R. H.'s army, and by an able and a rapid march (which was covered by General Walmoden's demonstrations to the front,) reaphed Ghent between the 28th and 30th. On the latter day Ostend was evacuated by Colonel Vyse, whom Lord Moira had left there with a brigade of British troops, which were embarked and removed with the artillery and stores. The enemy had made some attempts on Oudenarde which were repulsed, but this place was in capable of protracted defence, or indeed of any defence, against regu lar approaches ; and it is almost unnecessary to observe here, that Tournay, Oudenarde, Bruges, Ghent, Ostend, and other places in West Flanders had been dismantled by the Emperor Joseph, had, with the exception of Ypres and Nieuport, not been repaired, and could only be considered as field posts or cantonments. It appears to have been General Pichegru's intention to penetrate by Oudenarde between the corps of the Duke of York and General Cler fayt, and that his first movements in that direction were conformable to that plan, but that he received orders from the directory to occupy Ostend, and to detach a part of his army against the island of \\ al- cheren. He moved in consequence by Deynse on Bruges, which General Moreau had occupied on tbe 29th June, and on the 1st July a detach ment ot his army entered Ostend. Another was employed in the siege of Nieuport, in which place General Diepenbrock had been left with a garrison of Hanoverians, and which was gallantly defended for some weeks. About this period (the beginning of July) it was agreed, in consequence of a proposal from the Prince of Coburg, that the Duke of York should exchange positions with General Clerfajt, by which measure all the troops in the pay of Great Britain should be united, and General Clerfayt be in close connection with the main Austrian army. Before however the movements in execution of this change could be under taken, the Prince of Coburg retired from the positions near Soignies and Nivelles, which he had occupied since the battle of Fleurus, and ordered General Clerfayt to fall back from Ghent upon Alost. His Royal Highness in consequence, on the 3d July, marched to Grammont, and on the 4th to Sombeck. On the 5th General Clerfayt moved from Alost to Asche and Lord Moira from Termonde, to which place he and General Walmoden had retired, continued his march to Alost. On the 6th H. R. H. moved to Asche and thus established the junc tion ofthe several corps now forming his army. On that day the ene my attacked Lord Moira's out-posts at Alost, drove in the picquets, and penetrated into the town, but were soon repulsed on the arrival of support. On the 8th H. R. H., in consequence of the Prince of Coburg's fur ther retreat, was under the necessity of directing his across the Dyle upon Contich, near which his army occupied a position, having its right to the Scheldt, the left to Lier. The out-posts were at tacked on the 14th and 15th, and the enemy on the latter day ob tained possession of Malines, from which Lieut. Gen. Dalwig retired with the Hessians by Waelheim across the Nethe. Lord Moira's corps was then ordered to occupy Duffel. In this position H. R. H. continued until the 22d, having in vain, during this interval, made two proposals to the Prince of Coburg to concentrate the allied forces and to resume the, offensive. But the Prince of Coburg, having retired first from Tirlemont to Landeu, and on the 19th and 20th to Maestricht, H. R. H. fell back on the 22d to a position near Campthout, between Breda and Bergen op Zoom. Between the 23d and 24th the Prince of Coburg quitted the posi tion near Maestricht and retired across the Maese, and the Duke of Yoik marched on the 25th for Rosendal, near which place he en- eamped, and continued until the 4th of August, when he fell back to H. R. H. THE DUKE OF YORK. is some ground in front of Oosterhout, the army, being encamped with its right to Breda and its left to the little river Dougen. During these movements the enemy offered no molestation. They had occupied Antwerp and advanced towards the Nethe, between Turnhout and Herenthals. - The Duke of York continued near Oosterhout until the 29th Au gust, but the enemy having attacked and carried some of his out-posts, and appearing to threaten his left flank in great force, H. R. H. fell back behind the river Aa, having his right to Bois le Due, his left to the Peel Morass. Towards the end of August the Prince of Coburg resigned the com mand ofthe imperial army to General Clerfayt, who immediately sent General Beaulieu to confer with the Duke of York and the Prince of Orange, on the possibility of attempting a forward movement to relieve the fortresses on the French frontier, and to re-occupy Flanders. . H. R. H. eagerly entered into this project, and engaged to co-ope rate to the utmost of his means ; but the surrender of Conde and Valen ciennes caused General Clerfayt to give it up, although the Duke of York persisted in urging a concentration of force in order to attack the enemy, and if successful, to resume the offensive generally. The enemy had continued in his position between Turnhout and Meerle until the 14th Sept. when General Pichegru, who had been much reinforced, moved towards the Dommel and attacked the ad vanced posts of H. R. H.'s right, upon that river. Tbe enemy carried that of Boxtel with considerable loss to the Hesse Darmstadt troops which occupied it, and Lieut. Gen. Abercromby, who was detached with a strong body to regain the post, found the enemy in such force ' that he retired to the position of tbe main body behind the Aa. The Duke of York did not think it advisable to risk an action, against very superior numbers, in a position of which the left flank was very vulnerable, and therefore fell back on the 15th towards Graves, where he crossed the Maese on the l6th and encamped near Wichem. The enemy advanced to the Aa, but did not press H. R. H.'s army in its retreat. On the 18th the enemy attacked the Austrians and forced the pas sage of the Ourte, obliged them to abandon the position of the Char treuse near Liege, to retire upon Juliers and behind the river. Here again General Jourdan attacked them, on the 2d October, and forced the passage of the river and their several positions, obliging them to retire upon Kerpen, whence General Clerfayt continued his retreat to 14 tfierft Har_sfjar& the Rhine, which he crossed at Mulheim on the 5th of October, aban doning Maestricht to its own force, and all the country on the left bank, and leaving the left flank of the Duke of York wholly unco vered, while H. R. H. was opposed in front by a very considerable army under Pichegru. Under these circumstances, and as there no longer existed any hope of effecting that combination of force and operations for which the Duke of York had not ceased to press General Clerfayt, H. R. H. de termined towards the 6th October to retire to a position in front of Nimeguen, still preserving his communication with Graves, which he was using every exertion to provide, with the meansr of defence, the Dutch having wholly neglected to supply this place, as indeed most of the others. H. R. H. had detached a strong corps to his right, which rested on the island of Bommel, the defence of which, however, had become more difficult from the loss of the fort of Crevecouer, which had been shamefully surrendered on the 29th September by the Dutch Com mandant. A body of cavalry was also sent to observe the Rhine from Shenkenschautz to Wesel, to maintain as far as possible a communica tion with the Austrians. ¦ The enemy had invested Bois le Due, but although they had not the immediate means of attacking it, the Prince ofc Hesse Philippestahl surrendered this place a few days after (on ICth October). This ac* "¦ quisition was a most important one to the enemy, and afforded great facilities to their further operations on the line of the Maese. Graves had been invested on its left bank about the same time. They had occupied Fort St. Andre, but were driven from it by Lieut. Gen. Abercromby on the 1 1 th October. On the 1 9th the enemy crossed tbe Maese in force, above Graves, and attacked the advanced line' of posts on the right, which they forced after considerable resistance, particularly at Appelthern and Druten, where Major Gen. Hammerstein and Major General Fox commanded. The 37th regiment, iu its retreat, having unfortunately mistaken some French hussars for the corps of Rohan, was broken, and in great measure taken. The infantry of Rohan's corps also suffered severely. The communication with Graves, with a view to its supply, had been the Duke of York's principal motive for occupying the position in front of Nimeguen, and this object having been effected previously to the enemy's attack upon his advanced posts, H. R. H. withdrew the H. R. H.. THE DUKE OF YORK. i$ •hief part of his army across the Waal on the 20th, leaving General Walmoden with a corps to maintain possession of Nymeguen as long as the imperfect state of its defences, and the deficiency of heavy artil- lery,'(which the Dutch had neglected to supply) would admit. H. R. II. had some time before taken measures for the construction of a bridge of boats, across the Waal, and for establishing batteries on the prominent points of the right bank. The enemy appeared before Nymeguen on the 23d, and completed the investment of Graves on the right bank of the Maese. On the 23th they drove in the out-posts in front of Nymeguen, and established tliein.selves within a short distance of the works. Every exertion was making to repair the neglect ofthe Dutch government. Venlo had yielded to the French on the 20th» as easy a conquest as •ther places held by Dutch garrisons. On the 28th General Clerfayt came to Nymeguen, and agreed t& send eight battalions and 14 squadrons of Austrians under Lieut. Gen. Werneck, which should reach Nymeguen on the 3d November, and thence cp-operate in an attack upon the enemy, for which the greater part of H. R. H-'s corps would assemble at the same point. Lieut. Gen. Werneck arrived on the 30th October, and held out hopes that his troops would join on the 1st November, and it was the Duke of York's intention to have crossed the Waal on the 2d and to execute the attack without loss of time ; but on the 1st General Werneck de clared that he could not be ready to co-operate until the 7th, and pro; posed a diversion to be made by his corps crossing the Rhine at Wesel, instead ofthe direct attack from Nymeguen. H. R. H. finding it in vain to expect more, yielded to an alternative which ill agreed with bi» own sentiments, and from the result of which he hoped for no benefit. The enemy broke ground before Nymeguen on the night of the 2d November, and H. R. H., in the hope of protracting its reduction, wat induced to augment the garrison on the 4th, the Prince of Orange having also engaged to add six Dutch battalions to it. On the after noon of the same day General Walmoden directed a sortie to be made by nine battalions (of which six British) under Major Gen. De Burghi supported by some squadrons of cavalry ; which succeeded in partially destroying the enemy's works, spiking their guns and checking their progress until the 6th, when they opened six batteries upon the bridge- a|id one upon the town. The bridge was soon so much damaged that H. R. H. determined to withdraw from the town all the troops, ex cepting the picquets, (about 2,500 men), and the Dutch battalions 16 field Barbate. which were left in it, under Major General De Burgh, with a view to maintain the place until the result of General Clerfayt's promise of co-operation should be known. It was, however, soon evident that no material aid was to be looked for from that quarter, and the enemy's fire having rendered the preservation of the bridge hourly more precarious, H. R. H. ordered Nymeguen to be finally evacuated on the night of the 8th. The British troops withdrew without loss ; but a proportion of the Dutch troops, who were crossing on the flying bridge, were taken, in consequence of an accidental shot carrying away the top of the mast on which the hawser was fastened, and of their not admitting of the measures proposed by Lieutenant Popham of the British navy and his seamen, for their relief. The bridge of boats was burnt, and the flying bridge, of which the French had obtained possession, destroyed by the fire of the British batteries. The diversion held out by the Austrians was confined to the pas sage of two battalions and two squadrons across the Rhine at Burich, which were soon driven back by tbe enemy. The corps under Lieut. General Werneck continued, however, in communication with H. R. H., occupying the posts upon his left, along the Rhine, as far as Panuerden. H. R. H.'s army was encamped and cantoned between the Waal and the Leek, occupying the line of the former river as far . as the island of Bommel, in which Dutch troops were stationed. In this position the army continued unmolested, until H. R. H.'s return to England, . which took place early in December, the general command devolving on General Walmoden, that of the British troops on Lieut.-General Harcourt. When H. R. H. quitted the army he was justified in entertaining every hope that the attempt of the enemy, on the provinces of Hol land and Utrecht, would be checked by the line of defence which it occupied ; but this hope was subsequently disappointed, the uncom mon severity of the season (which rendered all the rivers passable oil the ice) having concurred with the indifference of the inhabitants, or their disaffection, in facilitating the enemy's conquest of the Dutch territory. The limits of this work have precluded from giving me any other than a brief sketch of the campaigns of 1793-4, and of the share which the Duke of York had in the successes and reverses of the allied arms. We must refer our readers for a more full and detailed H. R. H. THE DUKE OF YORK. 17 account to the official papers, and the narratives which have been published. We have, however, endeavoured to show, from a state ment of positive facts, that, in the course of the retreat from the French frontier to the Waal, the retrograde movements of H. R. H.'s corps were invariably the result of those made by the Austrian army upon his left, and that, while he abstained from committing the army entrusted to his charge in partial and desultory operations, which, from the superiority of the enemy, must have proved sanguinary, without producing any positive or sufficient effect, H. R. H. as studi ously sought, or availed himself. of every opportunity to urge the adoption' of a more vigorous system of warfare, by a concentration of means, and a combination of efforts. Amidst the difficulties under which he laboured, should be parti cularly noticed the small aid which he derived from the troops, or the government of Holland, in his endeavour to protect that country. There was no army in the field which could effectually co-operate : the fortresses, of which the resistance might have seriously inter rupted the progress of the enemy, were either inadequately garrisoned and supplied, or entrusted to officers who shamefully surrendered them on the first appearance of the enemy. Graves alone made a gallant and protracted defence, and its brave governor owed the means of so doing to the exertions of the Duke of York in throwing in supplies ; for when he retired across the Meuse it was destitute of tvery thing. It is not meant by this to say that the Illustrious Princes of. the House of Orange were wanting at this crisis in the zeal and activity for which its importance so urgently called, or that there were not among those who served them, some few individuals who were willing and ready to step forward, and to risk their lives and properties in support of the cause ; but those were few, and the mass of the Dutch people either viewed with apathy and indifference the approach of the French armies, and the danger which threatened the existing government, or indulged with satisfaction the prospect of a revolu tion, possibly on no other grounds than a love of change, and a dis position to licentious liberty, which had at this period infected so many parts of Europe. These feelings were shown, not only in the reluctance of the inhabitants to step forward in defence of the coun try, but also in individual acts, amounting often to open hostility, against detachments and individuals of the Duke of York's army, although its correct discipline and orderly conduct, during the re ft. M. Cal. I. B J8 field lEtat^hate. treat, afforded no just cause of complaint. They were imbibed in a more or less degree by the Dutch troops, and they naturally had the general effect of producing in those who would have directed the energies and resources of a well affected people, a dread of calling forth . exertions of which the application might become so doubt ful. These feelings have disappeared under the effects of nineteen years of oppression, which have caused all classes to lament their blindness in courting and hailing as a benefit the fraternal hug of France. In February, 179-t, his Majesty was graciously pleased to nominate the Duke of York to the situation of Commander in Chief, an office, at that time, not less important than it had become arduous from the deplorable effects of the inefficiency and abuse which prevailed in every branch and department of the military service. There existed no positive system of discipline, no rule of promotion, or if they did exist, they were not enforced. Advancement was attainable by* an hundred different means, none productive of any solid or immediate advantage, yet all entailing serious and lasting mischief. His Royal Highness undertook the duties of this situation with a firm determination to correct the errors and abuses which had crept into the administration of the army, and the zeal and indefatigable attention with which he persevered iu this arduous task, were equalled only by the judgment which directed his labours, and which prompted him to proceed with moderation and caution towards the progressive attainment of his object, instead of resorting to hasty measures which would have unhinged the whole machine, before any other could be substituted, and have ruined a number of individuals, who under a better system, might eventually become useful to the state. A course so prudent and so mild could alone have enabled him to overcome the many difficulties he had to encounter, and the opposition with which he frequently had to contend ; and it may with truth be assert ed, that while the necessity of checking evil and abuse led to the enforcement of regulations which had been neglected, or to the esta blishment of others indispensable to the general welfare oT the service, of which the effect was felt as a grievance by many, the utmost care was taken by H. R. H. not to afford just cause of complaint to any. No detail escaped his vigilant superintendance, and the interests of the old officer, the comfort of the old soldier, were blended in his endeavours to place the army upon a footing of efficiency and respect ability, which should conduce to the security and the honor of the H* R. H. THE DUKE OF YORK. 19 country. In the discharge of these duties, H. R. H. enjoyed, as he merited, the full confidence and the support of his Majesty, and his government, and was assisted by officers whom a sense of their merit and efficiency, and not private favor induced him to select for situa tions of office and of command. In September, 1799, the Duke of York was called from the imme diate duties of his official situation at home to assume the command of an expedition, undertaken by the British Government, for the de liverance of Holland, at a period when there was reason to hope that the successes obtained by the Austrian and Russian armies in Germany and Italy, would prevent the French from offering any vigorous resist ance in Holland, especially if the attempt to emancipate that country should be supported by the inhabitants, as there appeared just ground to expect. Preparations were made early in the summer for this enterprize, for which it was intended to assemble 30,000 British troops, who were to be joined off the coast of Holland by 17,000 Russians. It is not intended to enter into any minute statement of this expe dition, and we must again refer our readers to official documents, and more particularly to a very clear and correct history of the campaign of 1799 in Holland, translated from the French, and published in London in 1S01. We shall confine ourselves to a brief sketch of the operations, and a few general observations upon the principal events. The first division, or the advanced guard of the expedition, of about 12,000 men, under the orders of Lieut. General Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and escorted by a considerable naval armament under Admiral Mitchell, put to sea on the 1 3th August, but did not make the coast of North Holland, until the 20th ; and contrary winds and tempestuous weather prevented Sir Ralph Abercrombie from effecting a landing until the 27th. It succeeded completely, although opposed vigorously by General Daendels, who had collected 10,000 men, and who retired from his position near the Helder to that of the Zuype, after sustaining a loss of 1400 men. That of the British troops was 454 in killed and wounded— among the latter was Lieut. General Sir James Pulteney, who very much distinguished himself in this action. The evacuation of the Helder was its immediate consequence. On the 28th a reinforcement of 5,000 men landed under Major General Don, and on the same day possession was taken of the Naval Arsenal, 20 fiefr |&aT$)aI$}. at the Nienwe Diep, and of the ships of war and Indiamen in it. Ob the 30th, Admiral Mitchell passed the Helder, and entered the channel which leads to the Vlieter, where the Dutch fleet was at anchor. Admiral Story who commanded it was summoned to surrender the fleet, to which he agreed after some communication, and thus the mari time part of the expedition was realized in three days from the first landing of tjie troops. On the 1st Sept. Sir Ralph Abercromby advanced and occupied the position of the Zuype, with his right to Petten, and his left at Oude Sluys ; General Dacndels having retired from it on the 30th August iu the direction of Alkmaar, upon tbe line of the Schermer. Here the latter was soon joined by French troops which arrived in great haste from Zealand and other parts, and on the 2nd Sept. by General Brune, who had the chief command in Holland. Upon the 8th General Dumonceau joined him with a Batavian division, when the total number of the enemy opposed to Sir. R. Abercromby, amounted to 20,000 men, of which about 7000 French. Sir R. Abercromby, not having a force sufficient or equipments which could authorize further progress, had employed the interval be tween the 1st and 10th Sept. in strengthening his position; and in tak ing every precaution which might enable him to resist attack, until the arrival of reinforcements from England, or of the Russians. The 1 ]th light dragoons (about 500) had landed on the 6th and joined him. The Hereditary Prince of Orange arrived al the Texel on the 8th and proceeded to the Helder. On the 10th, the enemy made a general attack upon Sir R. Aber- cromby's position, directing their principal efforts against the flank of the Slaper Dyke, which was defended by the two brigades of guard* under M. General Burrard; and against the post of Crabbendam which formed a saliant angle in the position ; and where they were re sisted by Sir R. Abercromby in person, with a proportion of the 20th regiment. Their attempts to force these and other points on the right and centre of the position, were gallant but unavailing ; those made upon its left were weak and easily checked. They retired in disorder upon Alkmaar with the loss of nearly 2000 men, of which 1200 French, the latter having attacked the right. The British, who were much sheltered by the dyke and intrenchments, lost only ] SO killed wounded, and missing. Among the wounded was Major General Moore. , Sir R. Abercromby continued in his position, and between the 12th H. R. H. THE DUKE OF YORK. si and 15th three brigades of British troops, and two of the three divisions of Russians under Lieut. Gen. Hermann, and Major Gen. Essen, dis embarked at the Helder, and proceeded to the Zuype. The Duke of York landed on the 15th, and assumed the command of the army; which on the 15th amounted to 33,000 men, of whom 1200 Sight cavalry, viz. 46 battalions and 1 0 squadrons, the whole of this force was, however, not assembled in the Zuype until the 1 8th. At this period H. R. H. possessed a superiority of force, of which it was material that he should avail himself as early as possible, to strike a decisive blow. The season was advanced, adverse winds, and oth ment, on a war with France : the same year, the Regulations for the Infantry Exercises were published, and made general. In 1798, he was sent to Jersey, to examine into the practicability of an attempt on St. Malo, but which did not take place ; afterwards went to the continent, on a mission to the Duke of York, at the conclu sion of the siege of Dunkirk. In October of the same year, went through Germanyand Italy to Toulon, and arrived there as second in command to Lieut. Gen. O'Har.i ; on 30th Nov. Lieut. Gen. O'Hara was t.iken prisoner ; succeeded to the command and government of Toulon ; obliged to evacuate it, in the end of De- comber, and proceed to the Isle of Elba, after destroying the docks and arsenal, and bringing away a large proportion of the French fleet. Landed on the Island of Corsica in Jan. 1794, took the town of San Fiorenzo, and secured good anchorage for the fleet ; re turned to England, by land, through Italy and Germany ; joined the army in Flanders as M. Gen.; commanded a cavalry brigade at the battle of Tournay ; retired from the Netherlands to the frontier of Holland, on the Rhine and Wahl rivers, which the army under tlie Duke of York of British, Hanoverians, Hessians, and Brunswickers, crossed and maintained. In November, the Duke of York returned to England, and tlie Hanoverian Gen. Walmoden remained in command. In December, M. Gen. Dun das commanded on the lower Wahl, and in the two successful actions near Geldermalsen. In Jan. 1795, the army, evacuating Holland, retired from the Wahl and Rhine, behind the river Ems, on the frontier of Ger many. Commanded the right wing of the British, which skirted Dutch Friesland, in this retreat ; .commanded on the river Ems, in E. Friesland, until the month of April, when the British infantry, under Gen. Harcourt, returned to England. The British cavalry, 24 squadrons, and Foreign Emigre corps attached to it (about 10,000) remained under the command of Lieut. Gen. D. Dundas, as Lieut. Gen. : Gen. Walmoden still commanding the whole of tho allied army in Westphalia. Lieut. Gen. Dund.is's corps, during this summer, occupied the countries of Friesland, Olden burg, and Bremen, the rest of the army was cantoned in West phalia ; and the French occupied Holland, and the banks of the Wahl and Rhine. No offensive operations being carried on by either side in Westphalia, the British cavalry were exercised in brigade,' upon general systems then laid down for them by Lieut. Gen. Dundas. In December, Lieut. Gen. Dundas was appointed Col. of the 7th light dragoons. In Jan. 1796, the whole of the British cavalry were embarked in the Weser and Elbe, and landed safe in Englartd. The rest of R. Mil. Cal. I. D 50 saturate. the allied army fell back to their several countries, according to a line of demarcation agreed on with the French. The same year, 1 796, this officer was placed on the Home Staff, and appointed Qr. Mast. Gen. of the army ; composed the cavalry regulations of exercise and movement ; and during this year, and the following ones of 1797, 98, 99, and 1800, commanded the exercises and instruction of the infantry and cavalry, in the camps at Weymouth and in Windsor Forest, under His Majesty's inspec tion ; became Lieut. Gen. and Governor of Landguard Fort in 1797! In 1799, served as Lieut. Gen. in Holland with the Duke of York, commanded the centre column of attack at the first battle of Bergen, in September, and also the centre column of the army at the second battle, in October, which drove the enemy from the heights and village of Bergen, back upon the town of Alkmaar, which surrendered. In 1801, he was appointed Col. of the Royal N. British drag, and Gov. of Fort George, succeeding to Sir Ralph Abercrombie. In 1802, he attained the rank of Gen.; and, in 1803, he resigned his appointment as Qr. Mast. Gen. of the army, and was placed in command of the southern district, viz. Kent and Sussex. In 1804, he was appointed Gov. of Chel sea, and Knight of the Bath ; and, in 1805, he resigned the com mand of the southern district from indisposition. On the 18th March 1809, he was appointed Commander in Chief of His Majesty's army, on the resignation of the Duke of York ; and Col. of the 95th or Rifle regiment ; also Privy Coun cillor. On the 26th May 1811, having requested and received the Prince Regent's gracious permission to resign the command of the army on account of age, service, and health, H. R. H. the Duke of York resumed it. In 1813, appointed Col. of the 1st or King's regiment of dragoon guards. 23. Gen. Sir Robert Abercromby, K. B. Colonel ofthe 15th Foot, and Governor of Edinburgh Castle. This officer entered the service, in July 1758, as an Ensign in the 44th foot. He served in North America till the peace of 1763; he was present as a volunteer at the battle of Ticonderoga 8th July 1758,; at the siege of Niagara, and in the action in which a corps of the enemy, that attempted to raise the siege, was defeated ; at the reduction of Fort Levi, and at Montreal, when the French army laid down their arms and surrendered the colony. In 1759, he received a Lieutenantcy, and, in l761j a company in the 44th. He remained with that corps, in Canada, till the peace of 1763, when, being the youngest Captain, he was reduced on half-pay JAMES COATES. 51 with the 10th company; but soon after succeeded to a vacant company, and served in Ireland till 1775. In 1772, he received a Majority in the 62nd, and, in 1775, a Lieut. Colonelcy in the S7th foot. He served in North America from the commencement of 1776 till the peace of 1783 ; and was present at the battles of JJrook- lyne, Brandywine, and Germantown ; also at the siege of Charles- town, and at Yorktown, when it was attacked by the French and American armies and surrendered to them. The 15th Feb. 1781, he received the rank of Col., and was appointed Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty; 12th Oct. 1787, he received the Colonelcy of the 75th foot. From Sept. 1788 till the middle of April 1797, he served in India ; and, in Jan. 1790, he succeeded the late Gen. Sir William Medows in the government of Bombay, and in the chief command of the army on that establishment : the 28th April of the same year, he received the rank of M. Gen. He was present at the -reduction of Carcron, the surrender of Tippoo's army in that quarter, and the fall of the province of Malabar. In 1792, he joined Lord Cornwallis before Seringapatam, where soon after peace was concluded with Tippoo. In 1793, he succeeded Lord Cornwallis in the chief command of the army in India ; and was present at the action at Batina, in Rohilcund, where the Rohillas were totally defeated. The 26th Jan. 1797, he received the rank of Lieut. Gen. ; and in December was appointed on the Staff in North Britain ; but was compelled to resign that situation from a severe complaint in his eyes, contracted in India, from the effects of which he still suffers. The 29th April 1802, he received the rank of Gen., and has since been appointed Governor of Edinburgh Castle. 24. Gen. James Coates, Colonel ofthe 2nd Foot. Appointed Capt. Lieut, in the 66th, 24th Aug. 1761 ; Capt. 2nd April 1762; Maj. 3rd Oct. 1766; Lieut. Col. by brevet, 11th Sept. 1765 -, Lieut. Col. 19th foot, 26th Oct. 1775; Col. by brevet, 16th May 1781 ; M. Gen. 28th April 1790; Col. ofthe 2nd foot, 20th Dec. 1794; Lieut. Gen. 26th Jan. 1797; and Gen. 29th April 1802. This officer has served in America and in the West Indies. 52 Generate, 25. Gen. Sir Alured Clarke, K. B. Colonel of the 7th Foot. This officer was appointed Ensign in the 50th foot, 20th March 1755 ; Lieut. 10th May 1760 ; Capt. in the 5th foot, 7th Jan, 1767; Lieut. Col. 7th foot, 10th March 1777 ; Col. by brevet, 16th May 1781 ; M. Gen. 28th April 1790 ; Col. of the 5th foot, 25th Oct. 1794 ; Lieut. Gem in the East Indies, 3rd May 1796 ; Lieut. Gen. in the army, 26th Jan. 1797 y Col. of the 7th foot, 21st Aug. 1801 ; and Gen. 29th April' 1802. Sir Alured Clarke served in the East Indies ; and commanded the army that captured the Cape of Good Hope. 26. Gen. Samuel Hulse, Colonel of the 62nd Foot and Lieutenant Governor of Chelsea Hospital. This officer entered the army, 17th Dec. 1761, as Ensign in the 1 st foot guards ; in Aug. 1769, he obtained his Lieutenancy in the same regiment, with the rank of Capt. ; and, in April 1776, a Company with the rank of Lieut. Col. ; in 1780 he was appointed Lieut. Col. in his regiment, and employed during the riots of that year ; 20th Nov. 1782, he received the rank of Col. The 25th Feb. 1793, he embarked, in command of the 1st battalion of his regiment, and landed in Holland ; 5th Marcli 1793, he encamped before Valenciennes ; 2nd June, after the surrender of that place, he marched to Dunkirk. On their route the brigade of guards, under Lord Lake, were ordered, 18th August, to support the Dutch forces at LinCelles ; on which occasion this officer was directed to arrange the mode of attack. The guards returned from Dunkirk, and proceeded to Engle Fontain to support the Austrian army. On 12th Oct. this officer received the rank of M- Gen., and, having no command, he returned to England in November of the same year. In May, 1794, he was appointed to command the brigade of guards serving in Flanders ; and on 3rd June he joined the army at Tournay : some partial actions took place during his command of the brigade. He left the guards in cantonments near Arnheim, on the Rhine, and early in Jan. 1795, he arrived in England. In May he received the Colonelcy of the 56th, and was placed oa the Home Staff, where he continued until 1798; from the 56th he was removed to the 19th foot. The 1st Jan. 1798, he received the rank of Lieut. Gen. In June, during the rebellion irf Ireland, he was ordered with two brigades to proceed to Waterford; in November he returned to England, and resumed his command SIR JAMF.S STEUART DENHAM. 5$ on the Staff; in Aug. 1799, he was appointed to command in the expedition to the Helder. He was present at all the engagements from 19th Sept. to 6th Oct. ; but at one only held any command, viz. on '2nd of Oct. to proceed with the grenadier battalion of the guards to reinforce the centre of the army. He returned with the expedition in Nov. 1799, and was appointed to the command of~ the Southern District, in the room of the late Lord Grey, in which situation he continued until the peace of 1802. The 25th Sept. 1KO.J, he received the rank of Gen.; 24th Feb. 1806, he was appointed Lieut. Governor of Chelsea Hospital ; and 25th June, 1810, Col. of the 62nd foot. '27. Gen. Albermarle, Earl of Lindsey, Colonel ofthe 89th Foot, and Governor of Blackness Castle. This officer entered the service, 1st March 1762, as an Ensign in the 1st guards ; 30th Aug. 17(i;>, he received a Lieutenancy with the rank of Capt. ; 1st April 1776, a Company, with the rank of Lieut. Col. ; '20th Nov. 1782, he received the rank of Col. in the army; l'2th March 1789, he was appointed 3rd Maj. in his reg.; and 3rd Aug. 1792, '2nd Maj. The 19th Sept. 179:!, he received the Colonelcy of the 81st foot, from which he was removed to the 9th foot 3 1st Dec. 1794. From the 9th he was removed to the 17th, 15th June 1804; and 25th March 1S08 to the 89th foot. The 12th Oct. 1793 this officer received the rank of M. Gen. ; 1st Jan, 1798 that of Lieut. Gen. ; and 25th Sept. 1803 that of Gen. He has since been appointed Gov. of Blackness Castle, His Lordship raised the 8 1st foot. 2S. Gen. Sir James Steuart Denham, Bart. Colonel ofthe 12th Light Dragoons. This oflicer entered the service at 16 years of age, 17th March 1761, and having received a military education, in Germany, he was immediately fit for service. He obtained a Cornetey in the 1st or Royal reg. of drag, from his present Majesty without pur chase. He served in the campaigns of 1761 and 1762 in the above reg. with the allied army in Germany, commanded by Prince Ferdinand. From a Cornetey he was appointed, by pur chase, to a Company in the 105th or Queen's Royal Highlanders, by commission dated 13th Jan. 1763. That reg. having been reduced in the year following, Sir James again went abroad, and after travelling on the continent, in France and Germany, he, in 1 766, succeeded by purchase to a troop in the 5th or Royal Irisk 54 tftonmtg. drag, then stationed in Ireland, by commission dated 18th June, In the year 1769 Sir J. S. was appointed A.-D— C. to Ld. Townshend, then Ld. Lieut, of Ireland; and in the year 1772 obtained a Majority by purchase in the 13th reg. of drag, by com mission dated 6th Nov. In 1775, without any solicitation on his part, he was transferred to the Majority of the 1st reg. of Irish horse, now the 4th drag, gds., that step having been looked upon as promotion and a favor conferred upon him, commission dated 26th Sept. 1775. The year following, 1776, the 13th drag, were converted into light cav. when Sir J. S. was pointed out for the purchase of the Lieut. Colonelcy of that reg. to which he suc ceeded accordingly, by commission dated 15th July 1776; he then obtained the brevet rank of Col. commission dated 20th Nov. 1782. In 1788 it was thought advisable to improve the system of discipline in the cav. of the army, and orders were issued to the Irish government to assemble, in the garrison of Dublin, large de tachments from each reg. of cav. on that establishment, the late Sir William Pitt being Com. in Chief in Ireland.' — Sir James had the honor of being nominated to that command, and his orders were to form an improved system of interior discipline, economy, and field movements for the cav. ; and from time to time to re port his proceedings. The detachments were assembled accord ingly, early in the spring of 1788, and along with them the 13th light drag, to which Sir J. S. was Lieut. Col. making in all about 16 troops of cav., and having the assistance of two Majors and an adequate staff. The command of the garrison of Dublin also fell to Sir James, and which he held during the summers of 1788 and 1789. His proceedings met with the approbation of Sir William Pitt, as also of His Excellency the Ld. Lieut, who signified it in orders, in a manner from which Sir James has since derived honor and advantage. His system, particularly of field movements, has been adopted without alteration ; but has been more completely defined and arranged by our late Com. in Chief, Sir David Dundas, and is now enforced by order of His Majesty. The 12th reg. of light drag, falling vacant by the death of the late Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Lane Parker, Sir J. S. was appointed by His Majesty Col. of that reg. by commission dated 9th Nov. 1791. In autumn, 1793, he was ordered with his reg. to Toulon, where he was to have been appointed to serve as Brig. Gen. ; but the promotion of October in that year having given him the rank of M. Gen. and the Staff at Toulon being complete, he was dis appointed of that service. - In the year following Sir James was appointed to the Staff of the late Marquess of Cornwallis, and to the command of the cav. belonging to the Brit, army, which, was to have joined a Prussian subsidy, supposed to act on the Meuse; SIR JAMES STEUART DENHAM. S5 but which subsidy did not come forward as was expected, and Sir James was again disappointed. He was. placed, in the month of September, on the Staff in Scotland, and there named to the super intendance of the cav. and to take particular charge of the forma tion and discipline of the Fencible cav. in that country, which he commanded in camps in the summer, 1795, 1796, and 1797. In autumn, 1797, serious disturbances existing in Ireland, he was promoted to the local rank of Lieut. Gen. in that country ; and was there appointed by warrant to command the Southern District, comprehending the province of Munster, then in a greater state of disturbance than any other in Ireland ; and his arrange ments restored that district to a state of tranquillity, not known to any other district of that kingdom, during the year 1798 : the measures were not those of violence, and the result proves that they were not pusillanimous. The first step taken by Sir J. S. with the sanction of government obtained through Sir Ralph Abercrombie then Com. in Chief, was to suspend the authority given to military officers to act as justices of the peace; and to direct their attention more immediately to their military functions ; calling on the civil magistrates to come forward, and exercise their own authority, with firmness and justice. From this Sir James found the most material benefits ; the system having in general been well supported by the magistrates of the Southern District. The Lieut. Gen.'s next object was to obtain, as much as possible, the assistance of the yeomanry and volunteers, then consisting of nearly 1 7,000 men, belonging to the Southern District ; and who, owing to the disturbances not having then broken out into actual rebellion, had not been called forth by the authority of govern ment. Sir J. S. addressed these corps, through the medium of the general officers commanding divisions of the Southern District, and proposed to them to convert two days' exercise in the week, for which they received pay, into two nights' duty ; (see Sir J. S.'s circular letter to general officers, dated Mallow 13th March 1798, here annexed.) This proposal, being evidently for the advantage of the country and the best means of restoring peace, was soon universally adopted and carried into effect, (see the letter of the Earl of Donoughmore addressed to M. Gen. Myles, dated Cork 18th March 1798, also annexed,) with great activity, arrange ments being made by Sir J. S. in order to form night patroles of yeomanry safeguards. The patroles were conducted with great regularity and activity, and were, in general, headed by noblemen and gentlemen of the first respectability and rank in the country ; to whose exertions and spirit sufficient praise cannot be given. There was not an act of unnecessary violence committed by them during their service ; and all night assemblies of disturbers of the 56 sBerterate. peace were thereby effectually suppressed ; the regular military force, which till then had been dispersed, was collected and made more effectual. Those arrangements were communicated to Sir Ralph Abercrombie and were highly approved of by him, which approbation he expressed, in terms not equivocal, in his letter addressed to Sir J. S. and dated 18th March 1798. Im mediately before Sir Ralph Abercrombie left the command of the army in Ireland, he had concerted a plan, which he communicated to Sir J. S. for putting districts, particularly disturbed, under a military contribution ; by introducing into them troops living at free quarters. This system was by many objected to, on account of the depredations it might lead to, and the relaxation it would occasion in the discipline of the troops. By the arrangements made by Sir J. S. these objections were obviated ; a regular ration was fixed upon for each man, and for each horse employed on that service. The troops were to be assembled in towns and villages, and officers stationed in the houses with the soldiers ; the provisions were to be collected by the magistrates, who were also instructed to let the burden fall where it was most deserved ; and the prof visions so collected were to be delivered to the troops at stated periods, according to regular rations, and under the direction of the magistrates ; the soldiers being kept in discipline, and prevented from marauding or committing any outrage. Such free quartering was not taken off until perfect order was restored to the district so quartered upon : and the good conduct of the troops reconciled the inhabitants to the soldiery. On Sir J. S.'s taking the command of the Southern district, he put a stop to all arbitrary punishment be ing inflicted upon the inhabitants ; burning of houses, &c. : and, during the exercise of martial law in the Southern District, no criminal was capitally convicted, except by a regular military tribunal or court martial, consisting of a president and twelve members ; the whole of which proceedings received the approba tion of the government of Ireland. See the subjoined extract of Ld. Castlereagh's letter dated 25th June 1798, and addressed to Sir J. S. On the breaking-out of the rebellion in the month of May 1798, and the County of Wexford, which was not in Sir James's district, being taken complete possession of by the rebels ; and all communication between the seat of government and the Southern District being cut off by them ; Sir J. S. of his own accord, in stantly ordered M. Gen. Johnston, with about 3600 men, and a train of art. large in proportion, to march to the right bank pf the river Barrow, there to .cover tlie Southern District, and to act as might appear to him of most advantage for the kingdom at large. M. Gen. Johnston having taken possession of the town of New Ross, was there attacked ; and defeated the rebels on the 5th of SIR JAMES STEUART DENHAM. 57 June. The success of these operations is well known : four reg. of inf. were afterwards ordered out of the Southern District, by command of the late Ld. Lake, then commanding the forces; by order dated Dublin, 5th of June. Their march was delayed for a short time by Sir J. S., for reasons which he thought necessary; and which were stated ; but they soon afterwards proceeded and reinforced Ld. Lake at Vinegar Hill. On the 10th of June, Sir J. S. received orders from Gen. Lake to forward the late Lieut. Gen. Sir John Moore from Bandon towards the County of Wex ford along with his light brig., consisting of about 1800 men, and art. in proportion. They were marched the same evening ; and the next day the 11th, that brig, arrived in time to defeat the rebels at Foulks Mill on the 18th of the same month, after a march of 130 miles performed in seven days, also taking possession of the town of Wexford on the 21st, before the arrival of troops from any other quarter. Vide extract of Sir J. Moore's letter subjoined. Sir J.'s local rank as Lieut. Gen. was confirmed by the promotion of 1st Jan. 1798, and he was appointed a Gen. in the army on the 25th day of Sept. 1803. From motives now unnecessary to enter into, and the rebellion in Ireland having, by the proclamation of the Marquess of Cornwallis, been declared at an end, Sir J. was induced to offer to His Majesty his resignation of the Staff in that kingdom which was graciously received. Sir J. S.'s rank in the service, having since in a great degree pre cluded him from ordinary service, he has remained, with regret, an unwilling spectator of the wonderful military successes which have since crowned the annals of the British Empire. Circulap., to the General Officers in the Southern District of Ireland. -Mallow, 13th March 179S. Sir, — It having been represented to me by some respectable gentle men, living in your division of the southern district, that disturbances exist in many parts of it ; that gentlemen's houses have been attacked and plundered of arms, and nightly meetings held ; and it being evi dent that nothing will more effectually put a stop to such disturbances, than the lawful exertions of the magistrates, with the assistance of the yeomanry and volunteers of the country, (raised for the very purpose of giving strength to the civil power); I beg you will commu nicate without delay, to the gentlemen commanding yeomanry and volunteer corps, that I strongly recommend it to them : and that it is my earnest wish for the general good and restoration of order, as well as for the protection of private individuals and their property, that the exercise of the yeomanry and volunteers, for two days in the week, ss 4Seneral£. should be converted into night patroles, always accompanied by a civil magistrate or constable : that the patrole of each corps should be confined to their own district ; that they shall be made three or four nights in the week, or oftener according to the strength of the corps; dividing each corpsinto so many patroles, none consisting of less than 12. — In this manner a corps, consisting of 36 only, can patrole six nights in the week, which is but two nights' service, within that period, to each man. It is further recommended, that where the yeomanry, in any one district, consists of both cavalry and infantry, that the patrole shall be composed of a certain number of each; whereby the infantry will be protected by the cavalry in an open country, and the cavalry by the infantry in a close one. The strictest injunctions must be given to the patroles never to violate the law; to protect innocence, and never to offend it ; to be severe, where severity is unavoidably necessary ; but to discriminate, as far as possible, the innocent from the guilty. The times 'of patroles must be at uncertain bours, and frequently be changed, as well as the routes the patroles take ; both of which must be much determined, by good information received, of where and when disturbances are most likely to exist; always observing one general rule for all patroles, that they never re turn by the same road by which they went out. If the disturbances of the country are of such a nature as to require stronger patroles, the frequency of them must be diminished in proportion to the weakness of the corps. No doubt is entertained that, by the adoption of this plan, if carried on with perseverance, activity, discipline, moderation, and justice, the disturbances of the country will shortly subside, and good order be once more re-established. — You will be so good as lo request the gentlemen, to whom you communicate my wishes on this subject, to give you an answer, for my information, whether or not they agree to this plan, in order that I may transmit such answers to government. You may also observe, to the gentlemen to whom you write, that the assistance of the military shall always be granted to them, to support them upon emergencies ; but that it is not consistent with the attention which must be paid to the discipline of the troops, to disperse tbem in small parties over the country : the evil consequences which may at tend such a measure must be evident to every person. When they are therefore called upon, to lend assistance for the suppression of any disturbance, they must return to their established station immediately after such service is performed, which you will be so good as to attend to in your division of the district. You will also be so good as to request the gentlemen who command yeomanry and volunteer corps to report to you, when any material occurrence takes place, during any patroles of these corps. I have, &c. / (Signed) James Stewart, Lieut. Gen. To Maj. Gen. Johnston, Gen. Sir James Duff, Maj. Gen. Eustace, Br. Gen. Hope, Br. Gen, Moore, Maj. Gen; Myers. SIR JAMES STEUART DENHAM. 59 Lord Viscount Donoughmore, Captain of the Loyal Cork Legion, in Answer to the foregoing Letter. Cork, 16th March 1798. Sir, — I have had the honor of your letter of this date, communicating the oraers of Lieut. Gen. Sir James Steuart, of the 13th instant, and directing my immediate attention thereto. It gives me no small satis faction to be enabled to state, that the Loyal Cork Legion has antici pated the wishes of the Lieut. Gen. ; and my letter of the 15th instant, which I had the honor to send you, as the unanimous sense of my corps, having sufficiently expressed their readiness to act, at the short est notice, in such " a manner as the officer commanding His Majesty's troops in this garrison shall direct, in support of the laws for the pro tection of property and the preservation of public peace;" it is only necessary for me now to request that you will have the goodness to refer the Lieut. Gen. to this our declaration, and to assure him that he may rely upon our best exertions to carry his plan into complete execution. But the Lieut. Gen. having been pleased to direct that the persons commanding yeomanry corps should communicate for his in formation, whether or not they agree to his plan, in order that he may transmit such answers- to government, I beg leave to express in my own name, and that of the corps which I have the honor to command, that we agree to it in the fullest manner : and if I may presume to mention the opinion of an individual, on a subject so much considered by the Lieut. Gen., allow me to add how much I conceive his plan is calcu lated to meet the exigency of the present moment. The alarm which has been spread so very extensively, appears to me to be rather the cause of the danger, to which we are thought to be exposed, than the consequence of it ; and it is my decided conviction that, whatever the danger may be, it will retire before those who are disposed to look it boldly in the face. I speak from some little experience of my own in a neighbouring county, where similar apprehensions were entertained, and not without foundation ; and where the timely exertions of the resident gentlemen checked the evil at once, and restored perfect order and tranquillity. Wherever the gentlemen are disposed for their pre sent ease and immediate security to compromise with the disturbers of the public peace, these real dangers do exist ; but it is of their own creation. The wisdom of the Lieut. Gen. in thus committing to the zeal and exertions of the yeomanry corps the present contest with the disaffected and disorderly, strikes me on this principle with peculiar force. Every man of property being thus immediately pledged, the event cannot be doubtful. The injunctions never to violate the laws, which are given with so much propriety in the Lieut. Gen.'s orders, I am certain I shall never have occasion to inculcate, in the corps which I have the honor to command. If to the summary powers with which the magistrates are armed by the late acts, the circumstances of the times, or their own inactivity in particular places, should make it necessary to add any thing still more strong in the way of coercion, it is to the wisdom of the legislature, and not to the discretion of the 60 Oenerafs?* magistrates or military officer, that we are to resort for such addi tional severities. We shall best recal the lower classes of the people, wherever they have been misled, to peace and good order, by setting them an example of reverence for the laws in our own persons, and by our practice. It is particularly gratifying to me that it should fall to the lot of the Loyal Cork Legion to take the lead, in the very necessary duty which the Lieut. Gen. has thus recommended to the yeomanry corps of your division : and I venture to promise, that the report of the patroles of to-morrow night, of which I have thought it right to take the command myself, will not be discreditable to the inhabitants of this city and its adjoining district. I have, &c. (Signed) Donoughmore, First Captain Loyal Cork Legion. Maj. Gen. Myers, &c. &c. &c. Extract from Sir Ralph Abercrombie's Letter to Sir James Steuart, dated \8th March 1798. " Your proposal • for the employment of the yeomanry and volun teers, appears to me the most sensible and practical plan I have seen. I gave a copy of it to Lord Camden yesterday." Extract from Lord Castlereagh's Letter to Sir James Steuart, dated 25th June 1798. " His Excellency the Lord Lieut, highly approves of your issuing- the most positive orders, against the infliction of. punishment, under any pretence whatsoever, not authorized by the orders of a general officer, in pursuance of the sentence of a general court martial." Extract from Maj. Gen. Moore's Letter to Lieut. Gen. Sir James Steuart. Camp, near Wexford, Z4> June ] 798. " I reached Ross on the 1 8th, on the 191I1 we advanced to the proposed, attack. The rebels were posted on a hill within a couple of miles of the town, we marched in three columns, mine was the right, with orders to turn their flank. They appeared drawn up, and I really thought they had made their minds up to stand a brush ; but when I got within cannon shot of them they began to retire, and were very soon seen to have totally abandoned their position: they went in much haste, and in different directions. I followed to Old Ross, my ad^ vanced guard of yagers killed 50 or 6() of them : Gen. Johnston met me here, and inarched with me to Carrick; but which we found aban doned : he returned to Old Ross, but ordered me to proceed to Foulks Mil), where I should be joined next day by the Queen's and 29th front Duncannon ; I was then to proceed to Taghmou, cutting off all com- SIR JAMES STEUART DENHAM. 6l mnnication between that and Clonsmines. I took post, the night of the 19th, at the house and park of Mr. Sutton, near Took's Mill. Next morning I sent a strong detachment, towards Tintern and Clons mines, to observe the country and communicate with the troops ex pected from Duncannon. The detachment returned without gaining intelligence ofthe Queen's or 29th ; 1 waited for them till three in the afternqon, when, concluding that a change had prevented their marcli or disembarkation, I determined to proceed to Taghmon without them, that I might arrive on the day appointed, and in time to take up my ground before dark, ' I had not marched a mile when, at a place called Gowsbrii'ge, a large body of rebels were seen marching towards us. The advanced guard (the 6'Oth) were directed to scatter and occupy them, whilst I got a couple of guns forward, and some light inf. formed on each side of them : they came up very close to us and fixed a co lour, but were almost instantly driven ; their colour taken and forced over the bridge. I permitted them to be followed no farther; I had my guns and baggage to guard ; and a body of them were seen moving towards my left. I posted the light companies so as to prevent their again crossing the bridge, and sent some companies to attack the body, which by this time had got upon my left. The country was ex tremely woody and enclosed, and it was from report only that I could know what was going on where I was not personally ; but I suspected, from a large body that still remained on a height opposite the bridge, that their intention by moving to the left, was to make me weaken the points first attacked, and then make a push upon it. I sent Majors Aylmcr and Daniel with five companies to the left; but still remained myself, with my cannon, in the neighbourhood of the bridge. Tlie fire however becoming hotter on the left, and Maj. Anderson, whom I had sent there to observe, returning and telling me that affajrs were serious, 1 put spurs to my horse and arrived at a moment when the rebels, in vast crowds, were pressing us very hard ; the light inf. from want of practice and experience, had got huddled too much together. I got them to extend and take advantage of the ditches, and tjiien, with a huzza, to make a push forward, which succeeded ; the others turned tail, and we followed close : they attempted once or twice to rally — it was too late. After pursuing them a great way, they separated and dispersed in all directions. I had some cavalry, but the country was much too enclosed for them ; we had 30 or 40 wounded and 10 killed. Maj. Daniel is amongst the former in the knee, and 1 fear for his leg ; your friend Richardson behaved well, and his company suffered more than any of the light inf. ; five com panies of light inf. and part of the 60th alone were engaged. It is impossible to judge of the number of the rebels, they appear in clouds on different sides; but information of several taken states them at 5 or 6000, with 6*00 muskets. Their fire surprised me, it was well sup ported : I can form but little idea of their killed ; they lay scattered over the field in great numbers as we were pursuing them. The ac count came to me of the arrival of the Queen's and 29th, under Ld. Dalhousie, I sent them orders to halt, in front of the baggage, where 62 generate. the affair had begun : I returned there and, as it was eight o'clock, took post for the night. " Next morning, on the march to Taghmon, two people met us with a white flag, offering to surrender the town of Wexford upon terms, security to their persons and properties. I had no authority to enter upon terms ; but I thought it right to take advantage of the favorable disposition to gain the command of the town, and save the numerous prisoners confined in it. I made no answer; but, instead of stopping at Taghmon agreeable to my orders, I proceeded to Wexford, and took posts over the town, and then sent a detachment into it to release and protect the prisoners and well-affected ; we saw crowds running from the town as we approached it. ' On our arrival we found the rebels had plundered it, and had left only women and children ; I told them, who had sent the proposals, that I referred them to Gen. John ston and Lake : in the meantime, the troops and cannon I had upon the heights would secure them from all harm. Forty of the prisoners had been massacred the evening before ; the rest, to the amount of some hundreds, were to have been dispatched that day if we had not come forward — I shall never perform so pleasing a service. I expect to be in particular favor with Lady Steuart, her brother was amongst those released, he had been twice on his knees to be shot. " The day following arrived Gens. Lake, Johnston, &c. &e. For the affairs of Enniscarthy, I refer you to your Aid-de-Camp Barrows," &c. &c. &c. (Sig?ied) John Moore. 29. Gen. Thomas Carleton. Appointed Ens. in the 20th reg. of foot, then commanded by Lieut. Col. Wolfe early in 1755 ; Lieut, in the 20th the same year. In 1757, the reg. was employed on the unsuccessful expedition against Rochford under Sir John Mordaunt. The following year on an expedition under the Duke of Marlborough to the French coast, where upwards of fifty sail of vessels were burnt at Paramy near St. Maloes ; the expedition returned to the Isle of Wight, and sailed the same year to Embden, and joined the allied army in Westphalia, under the command of Prince Ferdinand of Bruns wick. Capt. in the 20th foot in 1759, in consequence of vacancies made at the battle of Minden. In 1760 appointed A.-D.-C. to Maj Gen. Ld. Frederick Cavendish; Maj. by brevet 1773.; Qr. Mast. Gen. to the army in^ Canada in Nov. 1775 ; Lieut. Col. to the 19th reg. in 1776; Col. Nov. 20 1782 ; Maj. Genv12th Oct. 1793; Lieut. Gen. 1798; Gen. 25th Sept. 1803. Gen. Carleton was wounded at the naval contest on Lake Cham- plain in 1776, when the rebel fleet commanded by Mr. Arnold was totally destroyed ; and in 1783, he was appointed Gov. of New- Brunswick. CHARLES LEIGH. 63 30. Gen. Cavendish Lister. Colonel of the 45th Foot, and Governor of Landguard Fort. This officer entered the army as a Cornet-in the 16th dragoons 22nd Aug. 1760; he served at the battle of Warburg as a volunteer in the Marquess of Granby's suite : he served in the ranks at the battle of Cloister Campen, 16th Oct. 1760, under his Serene High ness the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick; 1st April 1761, he re ceived an Ensigncy in the 3rd foot guards, and 5th Nov. was appointed Assistant Qr. Mast. Gen; on Lord Granby's Staff. He remained with the army until its return to this country, and was sent by Gen. Conway's commands into Holland, to prepare the marching routes of the army across the different branches of the Rhine at Arnheim and Nimeguen. The 12th March 1768, he received a Lieutenantcy with the rank of Capt. in his regiment ; 29th April 1775, he embarked, with the detachment of foot guards under Gen. Matthew for America ; and was present at the taking of Long Island and York Island. He returned to England in 1777, having been promoted to a company 16th Jan., with the rank of Lieut. Col. in his regiment; 13th Sept. 1791, he was appointed M. in 3rd foot guards, and 1st April 1795 Lieut. Col.;' 22nd April 1802, he received the Colonelcy of the 45th foot ; 12th Oct. 1793 the rank of M. Gen ; 1st Jan. 1798, that of Lieut. Gen ; and 25th Sept. 1803, that of Gen. Gen. Lister has since been appointed Gov. of Landguard Fort. 81. Gen. Charles Leigh. Colonel of the 3rd Foot, and Lieut. Gov. of the Isle of Wight. This officer entered the servioe the 12th March 1764 as an Ensign in the 3rd guards. He received a Lieutenantcy in his regiment with the rank of Capt. 18th April 1770; a company with the rank of Lieut. Col. 12th April 1777. He was employed on the American service from March 1776 to Sept. 1777, and was present at the battles of Bedford in Long Island; the landing on New York Island ; the White' Plains ; the attack on fort Washington and Westfield. He served the winter campaign in the grenadiers, under the command of Lord Cornwallis in the Jerseys. The 20th Nov. 1782, he received the rank of Col. in the army; in Feb. 1793, he went to Holland in command of the flank battalion of the guards, he was present in the action at St. Amand ; the battle of Fleurus, and the siege of Valenciennes ; he commanded the flank battalion of the guards and the line in the action near Dunkirk. 6-1 tnttal$. the field, where k has more than once been distinguished for its gallant and spirited behaviour in action, particularly at the affair at Rhode Island on the 29th of August, 1778, under the command of M. Gen. Sir Robert Pigot : His Majesty has been pleased to approve of your recommendation of that reg. to be put on the American establishment, and you will be pleased to notify it ac cordingly." Ori the termination of the war, the idea of an American esta blishment being laid aside, Col. Fanning, on his return to England in 1782, stated his claim to British rank under his warrant, when he was informed by the Secretary of State that, giving him rank from the date of his commission from Sir William Howe, might interfere with the subsequent promotion of some other officers, but that he should have it from that time ; his commission, there fore, as Col. in the army on the Brit, establishment, is dated 25th Dec. 1782. In the brevet of 1793, Col. Fanning was not included, he holding a civil appointment at the time ; but upon a represen tation from him to Ld. Amherst, the then Com.-in-Chief, he was immediately promoted, and his name inserted in its proper place among the M. Gens. ; his commission dated 12th Oct. 1793. In 1794, while Lieut. Gov. of Prince Edward Island, he received a letter of service from the Secretary of State for the Colonial and War Department, to raise a corps of fencibles for the defence of that colony. In 1799 he was promoted to the rank of Lieut. Gen. ; and in 1808 .to that of Gen. The civil appointments of Gen. Fanning we shall briefly notice. In 1758 he was elected a Trustee and Commissioner of the incor* porated town of Hillsborough, N. Carolina, and one of the two Representatives for the county of Orange. In 1765 one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature in N. Carolina, with a salary of £.500 per annum. In 1771 Secretary to Gov. Tryon of New York, and Surrogate Gen. of that province. In 1774 he was appointed, by commission from the King, Surv. Gen. of his Majesty's lands in the said province ; the annual profits of which office were between 2 and .£.3000, and was given him in consi deration of his losses, sufferings, and services in the insurrection, in N. Carolina. In 1783 he was appointed Lieut. Gov. of Nova Scotia and its dependencies. In 1786, on the recal of Lieut. Gov. Paterson, he was removed to the Island of St. John (now Prince Edward Island), where he remained until 1805; when, in conse quence of his applications, he was relieved in the government. His appointment as Lieut. Gov. of Nova Scotia was given him when Ld. Sydney was Secretary of State ; the propriety of which appointment his Lordship's successor in office, Ld. North, ob served in the House cf Commons, " He believed no man would FRANCIS EDWARD GWYN. 73 call in question, when he considered the merits of that gentleman, his sufferings in the cause of this country, and his unshaken ' loyalty and attachment to His Sovereign throughout the whole of the American war." 39. Gen. Henry Johnson, Colonel of the 81st Foot, and Governor of Ross Castle. The 16th Dec. 1763 this officer was appointed to a Company in the 28th foot; 4th Oct. 1778 Lieut. Col. 17th foot; Col. by brevet 25th Dec. 1782; M. Gen. 20th Dec. 1793; Col. 81st foot, 18th June 1798 ; Lieut. Gen. 26th June I79y ; Gen. 25th April 1808 ; and, subsequently, Gov. of Ross Castle. 40. Gen. John Watson Tad. Watson, Colonel of the 8th Royal Veteran Battalion. This officer was appointed Ens. in the 3rd foot gds. 1 3th April 1767 ; Capt. and Lieut. Col. 20th Nov. 1778 ; Col. in the army 22nd Aug. 1783 ; M. Gen. 20th Dec. 1793 ; Lieut. Gen. 26th June 1799; Col.8thvet.bat. 29th Dec. 1804; and Gen. 25th April. 1808. 41. Gen. Lowther, Lord Muncaster, Colonel of the 10th Royal Veteran Battalion. This officer was appointed Ens. in the 2nd foot gds. 4th July 1764; Capt. and Lieut. Col. 14th Dec. 1778; Col. in the army 22nd Aug. 1783 ; Col. late IS 1st foot, 23rd June 1795 ; M. Gen. 20th Dec. 1793 ; Lieut. Gen. 26th June 1799 ; Col. 10th vet. bat. 25th Dec. 1806 ; and Gen. 25th April 1808. 42. Gen. Francis Edward Gwtn, Colonel ofthe 22d Dragoons, and Governor ofSheerness. The 27th Feb. 1760, this officer was appointed Ens. in the 17th light drag.; Lieut. 20th Jan. 1764 ; Capt. in the 16th light drag. 14th July 1769 ; and Maj. in the 16th, Aug. 2d 1775. He served in the three campaigns in America, under Sir Wm. Howe, Sir H. Clinton, and Ld. Cornwallis. The 5th May 1779, he received the Lieut.-Colonelcy of die 20th drag., from which he was re moved to the 4th; the 19th March 1789, to the 3d; and 15th ,en«J to the 15th. The 19th Oct. 1787, he was appointed A.-D.-C. 74 ^fneral.ef. to the King, and Col. by brevet ; the 9th March 1794, Col. of the 22ddrag; 20th Dec. 1793, Maj.-Gen, and placed on the Staff in Ireland; 26th June 1799, Lieut.-Gen ; and 25th April 1808, Gen. Gen. Gwyn is Gov. of Sheerness. 43. Gen. Robert Morse. Colonel- Commandant in Royal Engineers. This officer was appointed Lieut, in the Rl. Eng. 17th May 1 759 ; Capt. Lieut. 6th May 1763 ; Capt. 25th May 1772 ; Lt.-Col. 1st Jan. 1783; Col. 6th June 1788; M.-Gen. 20th Dec. 1793; Lt.-Gen. 26th June 1799; Col.-Com. 1st May 1802; and Gen. 25th April 1808. 44. Gen. Thomas Sloughter Stanwix. Colonel of the 83th foot. This officer entered the service the 26th Sep. 1766 as an Ens. in the Coldstream Gds.; the 6th June 1773, he received a Lieu tenantcy with the rank of Capt. ; and the 27th Feb. 1 779, a Company, with the rank of Lieut.-Col. The 9th April 1789, he was appointed A.-D.-C. to His Majesty, and obtained the rank of Col.; and 20th Dec. 1793, that of M. Gen. He served with the Gds. on the Continent from Nov. 1793, to Feb. 1794. The 1st April 1795, he was appointed M»j. in the Coldstream Gds.; and 2d Dec.,Lieut.-Col. The 6th April 1798, he was appointed Maj.-Gen. on the Staff; and on 10th June, was sent to Ireland in command of a brigade of guards. At the end of June 1799, he re turned to England, and on 26th of that month, was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Gen. The 9th May 1806, he was appointed Col. of the 5th bat. 60th. The 8th Sep. 1806, Col. of the 97th ; and £5thFeb. 1807, CoL ofthe 83th foot. The i25th April 1808, this officer received the rank of Gen. Gen. His, Rl. Highness William Fkederic Duke of Gloucester, K. G. Colonel ofthe 3d Regiment of Foot Guards. The first commission of The Duke of Gloucester was that of Capt. in the first reg. of foot gds. with the rank of Col., and dated 11th March 1789. In March 1794, H. R. H., then Prince William, went to Flan ders to join his company in the^lst bat.; and on the 16th April, was appointed to the command of a brigade, consisting of the 14th, 37th, and 53d reg. ofthe line. On the 17th he was employed ip H. R. II. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. 75 the column under Sir Wm. Erskine, who ordered H. R. H. to at tack the village of Premont, and the wood on its left, in which he succeeded, and received the General's thanks in the field. H. R. H. was immediately afterwards appointed to the command ofthe 1 15th reg. (3d May 1794) and had a letter of service as Col. upon the Staff, (21st Feb. 1794) and to do the duty of a Gen. Officer in the army, in which quality he served the whole of that campaign. The 26th Feb. 1795, The Duke of Gloucester received the rank of Maj. Gen. ; and the 8th of Nov. 1795, H. R. H. was appointed Col. ofthe 6th reg. of foot. Whilst Maj. Gen., he was appointed in 1799 to the command of a brigade, comprising two bat. of the 5th, and two of the 35th reg., forming a part of the Duke of York's army. On Thursday the 19th Sept. this brigade was attached to the column commanded by Lieut. Gen. Dundas. In the course of the morning, the whole of it was, by degrees, detached, excepting the 1st bat. 35th, with which, only 600 strong, H. R. H. was called upon to support the Russians. Finding that Lieut. Gen. G'Her- mann was made prisoner, and Lieut. Gen. Geripsdorf killed, and that the command had, consequently, devolved upon himself; H. R.H. determined to attack the village of Schorel, from which he found Maj. Gen. Manners's brigade (two batts. of the 9th and one of the 56th reg.) was retreating, closely pursued by the enemy in great force. Prince William, covering the Maj. Gen.'s retreat, ordered him to form in his rear, and with this reinforcement to his own single bat. H. R. H. advanced to the projected attack, carried the village, the wood skirting it, and, pursuing the enemy up the sand-hills, drove him back upon Bergen. The rest of the army having been ordered to fall back, H. R.H. made his retreat good, bringing off his guns, ammunition, and wounded men, in the face of die enemy. Prince William, on the 24th, relieved the reserve, occupying the advanced posts of the army upon the left, and having a detachment of about 1 50 of the 18th It. drag, under the Hon. Lieut. Col. Chs. Stewart, from that period added to his command. H. R.H. fixed his head quarters at Winekel, having his left to the Zuider-Zee, and his right to Riendorper Verlaat. H. R. H.on the 4th Oct. made a rapid ad vance to Schermerhom, Daendels having retired to Purmerent with the main Dutch army, 8000 strong, abandoning three guns, which were consequently taken by H. R. H.'s brigade. On the 6th Oct. H. R. H. received orders to retreat, and falling back, under very critical circumstances, took up his former position, in which, having one howitzer, two six-pou'ders, and a force in the whole amounting to 1050 men, he was attacked by 76 48. Gen. Sir James Duff, Kt. ¦ Colonel of the 50th foot. This officer was appointed Ens. 1st foot guards, 18th April 1769; Lieut, and Capt. 26th April 1775; Adj. 2d Jan. 1777; Capt. and Lieut. Col. 18th July 1780 ; Col. in the army 18th Nov. 1790 ; M. Gen. 3d Oct. 1794 ; 3d Maj. lstfoot guards, 7th March 1795; 1st Maj. 11th Oct. 1797; Col. 50th foot, 31st Aug. 1798'^ Lieut. Gen. 1st Jan. 1801 ; and Gen. 25th Oct. 1809. 49. Gen. Henry, Earl of Mulgrave. Colonel 31st foot, Master Gen. of ordnance, and Gov. of Scar borough Castle. This officer was appointed Lieut. Col. in the army 4th Oct. 1780 ; Capt. and Lieut, Col. 1st foot guards, 6th June 1783 ; Maj. 85th foot, 30th Aug. 1779; Col. in the army, 18th Nov. 1790; Col. 31st foot, 8th Feb. 1793; M. Gen. 3d Oct. 1794 ; Lieut. Gen. 1st Jan. 1801 ; and Gen. 25th Oct. 1809. Lord Mulgrave has been on service in America, the West Indies, the Mediterranean, and in Holland ; and received the thanks, in public orders, of the officers under whom he served. His Lord ship holds the appointment of Master Gen. of the Ordnance, and the Government of Scarborough Castle. 50. Gen. Grice Blakeney, Colonel of the 4th Royal Veteran Battalion. Appointed Cornet 14th drag. 8th March 1757 ; Lieut. 6th March 1760; Capt. 28th Feb. 1766 . Maj. 16th March 1775; Lieut. Col. in the army 17th Nov. 1780; Lieut. Col. 14th drag. 19th Nov. 1781 ; Col. in the army 18th Nov. 1791 ; Maj. Gen. 3rd Oct. 1794 ; Lieut. Gen. 1st Jan. 1801; Col. 4th vet. bat. 25th Dec. 1802 ; Gen. 25th Oct. 1809. 51. Gen. Sir Paulus JEmil. Irving, Bt. Colonel 6th Royal Veteran Battalion. This officer was appointed Lieut. 47th foot 15th June 1764 ; Capt. 29th. Oct. 1768; Maj. 3lstMarch 1775; Lieut. Col. in the army 17th Nov. 1780 ; Lieut. Col. 47th foot 3rd Aug. 1781 ; Col. in the army 18th Nov. 1791 ; Maj. Gen. 3rd Oct. 1794 ; Lieut, 73 Centrals?. Gen. 1st Jan. 1801 ; Col. 6th vet. bat. 25th Dec. 1802 ; and Gen. 1st Jan. 1812. This officer served with the 47th Foot in America. He was at the battles of Lexington and Bunker's Hill. At Boston during the blockade, and until the evacuation, when he accompanied the 47th to raise the siege of Quebec. He was at the affair of Trois Ri vieres, June 1776, and pursued the rebels to Crown Point and Ti- conderoga ; he served with Gen. Burgoyne's army till the conven tion, when he was taken prisoner, and detained three years ; in 1781 he returned to England. In 1790 he embarked for the Ba hama Islands where he remained till 1795, when he joined Sir John Vaughan's army in the West Indies, and on that officer's death, 3 1st June 1795, the chief command of the forces intheW. In dies devolved on him. In Sept. M. Gen. Leigh took the chief command, and Gen., then M. Gen., Irving went to take the com mand of St. Vincent's. On the 2d Oct. following, he attacked* the enemy in their works at the Vigi,>and after an obstinate resistance, during the whole day, they were driven from their posts : in Dec. he returned to England. 52. Gen. George Harris, Col. ofthe 13rd Foot. The 1st Jan. 1759 this officer was appointed Cadet in the Roy. Art. '23rd June 1762 Fireworker ; 30th July 1762 Ens. in the 5th Foot ; 2nd July 1765 Lieut. Adj. 1767, and Capt. 25th July 1771. In May 1774 he embarked for America; he was in the action at Lexington, and battle of Bunker's Hill. In the latter he was se verely wounded in the head, and obliged to be trepanned and sent home ; he, however, returned in time to take the field previous to the army landing on Long Island in July 1776. Capt. Harris was present at the affair of Flat Bush ; in the skirmishes on York Island : in the engagement at White Plains ; at Iron Hill (when he was shot through the leg), and in every action up to the' 3rd Nov. 1778, except German Town. In the latter year he was ap pointed to a Majority in his reg. and in Nov. he embarked with it for the West Indies, with the force under M. Gen. Grant, by whom he was appointed to command the bat. of Grenadiers, and landed with the reserve of the army under Brig. Gen. Medows at St. Lucie 25th Dec. After the taking of Morne Fortunee, Maj. H. was second in command under Brig. Gen. Medows at the Vigie, where the French were repulsed in their repeated attacks on our post and in consequence retreated from the Island. In 1779 he em barked with his reg. as Marines and was present in the engagement GEORGE HARRIS. ' 79 •IF Grenada under Adm. Biron ; and in 1780 returned to England. In Dec 1780 he succeeded to a Lieut. Colonelcy in the 5th, from which he exchanged into the 76th, and accompanied Sir W. Me dows as secretary to the East Indies, who was appointed Gov. and Commander in Chief of Madras. He was in the campaigns of 1790 and 1791, against Tippoo Sultaun ; and in the action of 15th May 1791 ; was appointed by Ld. Cornwallis to command the 2d line ; he was also personally engaged in the attack of the Sul- taun's camp and island of Seringapatam on the night of the 6th Feb. 1792, the success of which terminated that war. Peace being re-established this officer returned with Sir W. Medows to England. The 18th Nov. he was appointed Col. by brevet ; and the 3d Oct. 1794 M. Gen., when he re-embarked for India and was placed on the Bengal Staff. The 3rd May 1796 he received the local rank of Lieut. Gen. and was appointed Commander in Chief under the Presidency of Fort St. George, and in Feb. 1798 he succeeded to the military and civil government of die troops and territories of Madras. In Dec. 1798, Lieut. Gen. H. was selected by the Marquis Wellesley to command the army assembled to repel the threatened hostility of Tippoo Sultaun, to besiege his capital, and reduce his .power. The army under his command exceeded 50,000 men, and the object of the expedition was accomplished by the capture of Se ringapatam, death of Tippoo, and annexation of his dominions to his Majesty's crown. The following Letter from the East India Govt, was addressed to the Lieut. Gen. on this occasion : " The Gov. Gen. in Council now directs me to signify his par ticular sense of the firmness, constancy and perseverance with which you subdued the difficulties opposed to the progress of the army through the enemy's country; of the zeal and unanimity with which you inspired all the great departments of your army, of the judgment displayed in the whole conduct of the cam paign, especially in the passage of the Cavery, and in the posi tion taken up before Seringapatam, and the vigor and skill with which the siege was conducted. This great achievement entitles you to the gratitude and respect of the Company, of your King, and of your Country, and the Gov. Gen. has already discharged, with particular satisfaction, the grateful duty of stating to the Hon. Court of Directors, and to his Majesty's Ministers your eminent services, in a manner adequate to the honor and advantage which the British empire in India is likely to derive from the splendid vic tories obtained by the army under your command. Fort St. George, Aug. 7, 1799. This Officer was appointed Col. in the 73rd 14th Feb. 1800; Lieut. Gen. in the army 1st Jan. 1801, and Gen. 1st Jan. 1812. so Cena*al^ 53. Gen. Richard VysE, Col. ofthe 3rd Dragoon Guards. Appointed Cornet 5th Drag. 13th Feb. 1162; Lieut. 15th Aug. 1776; Adj. 18th March 1767; Capt. 28th Nov. 1771 ; Maj. 18th Light Drag. 4th Nov. 1777 ; Lieut. Col. in the army 7th Jan. 1781 ; Lieut. Col. 1st Drag. Gds. 28th May 1784; Col. in the army 18th Nov. 1791; Maj. Gen. 3rd Oct. 1794; Col. 29th Drag. 23rd March 1797; Lieut. Gen. 1st Jan. 1801 ; Col. 3rd drag. gds. 2d April 1804 ; and Gen. 1st Jan. 1812. As Col. this officer commanded a brigade in Flanders under the Duke of York. 54. Gen. William, Earl Cathcart, K.T. Colonel ofthe 2nd Regt. of Life Guards. In June 1777 Lord Cathcart received an Ensigncy in the 7th, or Queen's drag, and obtained the King's leave to serve in America with the 16th light drag. He proceeded thither as extra A. D. C. to Maj. Gen. SirT. S. Wilson. He served as an extra A.D. C. to Sir H. Clinton, and was present with that Gen. at the storming of forts Montgomery and Clinton, 6th Oct. 1777. In Nov. 1777 lie received a Lieutenantcy in the 17th light drag, with which regt. he served at the advanced posts, of the army at Philadelphia and other positions. In Dec. he obtained a troop, and continued to serve with his regt. till June 1778 ; he was thanked in gen. orders for surprising a part of the enemy on the Skuylkill, advanced from Valley Dirge. In June he was appointed A. D. C. to the Com. in Chief, and present at the battle of Monmouth Court House. He was appointed Col., with provincial rank, of the Brit. Legion, which corps he raised, formed, and occasionally commanded at the out posts. The 13th April 1779 he obtained the Majority of the 38th foot. About midsummer of the latter year he was appointed to serve as Quarter Master Gen. to the forces in N. America until the arrival from England of Gen. Dalrymple. The 25th Dec. 1779 he sailed for Savannah and was at the investment and siege of Charlestown, North Carolina, but obliged to leave the latter in April 1780 on account of the climate, and return to New York. Being ordered to make his election between his commission in the army and in the provincials, he resigned the Brit, legion, and joined the 38th on Long Island ; he commanded that regt. in the affairs of Springfield and Elizabeth Town Point, June 1780 ; in Oct. he returned to England. In Feb. 1781 he obtained a com pany in the Coldstream gds. with the rank of Lieut. Col. and in EARL CATHCART. 81 Oct. 1789 exchanged for the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 29th. In Nov. 1790 he received the brevet of Col.; in Dec. 1792 the Colonelcy of the 29th. From Nov. 1793 to Nov. 1794 he served as Brig. Gen. to the forces under Lord Moira ; was in the expedition to Normandy and Britany in 1793 ; and in the expedition to Flan ders to relieve Ostend and join the Duke of York's army in 1794. The 3rd Oct. 1794 he received the rank of M. Gen. and in Nov. joined the Duke of York's army at Arnheim, and served the re mainder of that campaign. Lord C. was next entrusted with the command of various brigades of cav. and placed on the staff in Great Britain. The -1st Jan. 1801 his Lordship obtained the rank of Lieut. Gen. and in 1803 held the command of the home district. He was subsequently, as Lieut. Gen., appointed com mander of the forces in Ireland; in the North of Germany; in N. Britain ; in the North of Europe ; and again in N. Bri tain. In the Autumn of 1805 Lord C. was ordered to Russia as Am bassador, and his appointment was framed in a military form. On reaching London previous to his departure, he had much inter course with Mr. Pitt, but after several arrangements he was finally sent to take the command of the Brit, army in Hanover. He ac quired an entire ascendancy over the senate of Bremen, and ob tained all that was necessary to the establishment of his head quar ters in that city. The Russian army was at this period combined with the British, and Lord'C. succeeded in conciliating Gen. Ben- singen and all his officers. The battle of Austerlitz changed the aspect of affairs, and that event was soon followed by the death of Mr. Pitt. The new administration, formed on the latter event, determined to recal the army. Lord C. stated fifteen days as the period required for enibarkation, and though it generally happens that such calculations are exceeded, in this case Lord C, the last man, embarked on the thirteenth day. His Lordship's next ap pointment wasCommander ofthe forces inScotland, and he remained in that situation till May 1 807, when he was sent for by the Duke of Portland's administration to be again employed on foreign ser vice. His first mission was to the King of Sweden, afterwards his Lordship was directed to join Lord Gambier, and proceed against Copenhagen. His Lordship effected his landing in Zealand, and attained the conquest he had in view. On Lord C.'s return his Majesty was pleased to create him an English Vise, and he forthwith resumed his command in N. Britain, where he con tinued till May 1813, when he Was again called upon to'be employed on another mission to Petershufrgh. The 1st Jan. 1812 he ob tained his present rank of Gen. The Emperor Alexander in 1813 conferred on this officer the Imperial Russian Order of St. Andrew, R. Mil. Cal. I. F 82 Oencvalg. and the Cross of the Military Order of St. George of the 4th class The 18th June 1814 he was created an English Earl. 55. Gen. Barnastre Tarleton, Colonel ofthe 21st Light Dragoons and Governor of Berwick. This officer entered the army in 1775 by purchasing a Cornetey in the King's drag. gds. In 1776, through the assistance of his commanding officer, Col. Sloper, he obtained leave to go to Ame rica, and in the month of Dec. he commanded the advanced guard of a patrole which made Gen. Lee prisoner. During .the years 1 777 and 1778 he witnessed nearly the whole of the actions of gr^at and little moment in the Jerseys, Maryland, and Pensylvania, until the return of the King's army to New York. On which oc casion, although possessing only the rank of Captain of infantry, in an absent regiment, he commanded the rear guard of Sir Henry Clinton's army. Immediately after this service he was appointed Lieut. Col. of provincial cav. and soon rose to the command of the Brit, legion. At the close of the year 1779 Sir H. Clinton carried a considerable part of the army to the southward, for the siege of Charlestown and operations in the Carolinas. The command of the cav. was entrusted to Lieut. Col. Tarleton, who had the mis fortune to lose all the cavalry horses on the sea voyage. Undis mayed by this adverse fortune, he sought horses by every means he could devise, and with difficulty procured ponies and other beasts scarcely capable of carrying their saddles. A spirit of enterprise placed a corps of American volunteer cavalry in his power. From that period success attended the movements of the Brit, legion. During the siege of Charlestown the cav. and light troops of the Americans that endeavoured to maintain a connection between the Country and Charlestown, were repeatedly surprised and defeated on the Cooper river. On the surrender of the town, the legion was detached after Col. Buford, who was overtaken and defeated on the line of North Carolina, after a toilsome and burning march. In the course of 1780 various services were rendered to Lord Corn wallis and the British army by Lieut. Col. T. and the Brit, legion, at Camden, the Catawba, Blackstocks and other places, as the ge neral orders of Earl Cornwallis recapitulate. Early in 1781 an unexpected reverse of fortune, which is minutely detailed in Tarle- ton's campaign, met him in his career, which is ascribable princi pally to the want of due co-operation on the part of Earl Corn wallis. The Brit, legion speedily resumed its active share in the campaign of 1781. The battle at Guildford Court House proved the goodness of the Brit. cav. In a charge on that occasion Lieut. Col. T. lost a considerable part of his right hand. The subse- SIR HEW DALRYMPLE, K. T. 83 quent movements of the legion displayed energy, decision, and dis patch. It effected the junction of the two Brit, armies of Caro lina and Virginia in the latter district, which gave to Lord Corn wallis a formidable force. This force however accomplished no thing decisive during the summer, and was injudiciously cooped up in bad works, on the banks of the York river, in the close of the Autumn. Lieut. Col. T. as commander of the cav. and advanced posts of the Brit., constantly protested against a measure which brought the army into captivity, and Great Britaip into an acknow ledgment of the independency of America. During the course of these services this officer received the brevet of Maj. and Lieut. Col. in the English army. From the peace in 1783 to 1798, he was continued on half pay as Lieut. Col. Com. of cav. The 18th Nov. 1790 he obtained the rank of Col.; and the 3rd Oct. 1794 that of M. Gen. At the close of 1798 he was sent as M. Gen. to Portugal : as this proved a limited employment, where nothing, at that time, was to be seen or learned of an honorable or profes sional character, he petitioned for a change or a recal -.the latter was accorded in Oct. 1798. The 1st Jan. 1801 he had the rank of Lieut. Gen. and shortly afterwards was sent to the command of the Southern district of Ireland, where he remained until the treaty of Amiens. Soon after the renewal of hostilities, Lieut. Gen. T. was again dispatched to Ireland, as second in command. On the retreat of the Chief, Gen. Fox, he had the countenance of the na tives in the South, and of the Irish government, in looking for the superior situation : but his and their hopes were deceived by ano ther appointment, and Lieut. Gen. T. was placed in the command of the Severn district, where he remained six years, without re ceiving any proposal of service, but the command in the West In dies. After an eager military, and anxious parliamentary life, this officer now remains, under 60 years of age, a Gen. in the army, Col. of the 21st drag, and Gov. of Berwick. The 1st Jan. 1812 ¦ he obtained the rank of General. 56. Gen. Sir Hew Dalrymple, K. T. Colonel of the 57th Foot. Appointed Ens. in the 31st foot 3rd April 1763 ; Lieut. 1766 ; Capt. 2d bat. royals 14th July 1768 ; Maj. in the 77th Dec. 1777 ; Lieut. Col. in the 68th 21st Sept. 1781 ; and Col. by brevet 18th Nov. 1790 ; and exchanged into the 1st reg. of gds. Sir Hew served the campaign of 1793 in the grenadier bat. and was present at the battle of Famars, the siege of Valenciennes, in the action at the investment of Dunkirk* and in every affair in 84 Centrals?. which the bat. was employed during that campaign. At its con clusion he returned to England. The 3rd Oct. 1794 he received the rank of M. Gen. and in April 1795 he was placed on the staff in the Northern district. In March 1796 he was appointed Lieut. Gov. of Guernsey, and 10th Nov. 1799 received the rank of Lieut. Gen. in Guernsey only. The 1st Jan. 1801 Lieut. Gen. in the army. In 1802 he resigned the Lieut. Government, and was placed on the staff in command of the Northern district, and in May 1806 was removed to the staff of Gibraltar. The 7th Aug.. 1808 he was ordered to take the command ofthe army in Portugal*) in consequence of which he sailed from Gibraltar and arrived on, the 22d, and joined the army in time, to become responsible for the treaty by which the French army evacuated this country, which was, in all its essential provisions, recommended by his predeces sor in command, Sir Arthur Wellesley, who alone possessed the. information necessary to appreciate the value of the measure. From the terms in which Sir Hew Dalrymple's appointment to this command were couched, there seemed reason to conclude that it was in its nature temporary, and that it was intended that he should afterwards resume his command at Gibraltar, but which did not take place. He received the rank of Gen. 1st Jan. 1812. 57. Gen. Gordon Forbes, Colonel of the 29th Foot. This officer entered the army in Oct. 1758 as an Ens. in the 72d reg. His commission as Lieut, in the same corps was dated in 1759; as Capt. in 1760 ; as Maj. of the 9th foot in 1776 ; as Lieut. Col. in the 102d foot in 1782 ; as, Col. 18th Feb. 1791 ; as M. Gen. 3d Oct. 1794; as Lieut. Gen. 1st Jan. 1801 ; and as, Gen. 1st Jan. 1812. He served at the Havannah, in the American war, in the East , Indies four years ; and commanded his Majesty's troops in the Island of St. Domingo, two years. In 1797 this officer was ap pointed to the Colonelcy of the 81st, and the same year Col. ofthe 20th reg. which situation he now holds. 58. Gen. John Floxd, Colonel of the 8th Dragoons and Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury. The 5th April 1760 this officer received a Cornetey in Eliott's- light drag, with which he 6erved in Germany, and was present at JOHN FLOYD. 85 the affair of Emsdorf ; the 20th April 1763 he obtained a Lieute nantcy, and by the direction of Gen. Eliott was employed in super intending the horsemanship of his reg. ; the 20th May 1770 he obtained the commission of Capt. Lieut. ; and the 25th May 1772 that of Capt. He was employed, for one year, in establishing the horsemanship of the royal drag. The 5th May 1779 he was ap pointed to the Majority of a newly raised corps, the 21st light drag. in the formation of which he assisted. The 24th Sept. 1781 he re ceived the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 19th, then the 23rd, light drag. Early in 1782 he embarked for India, where he continued 18 years. The 13th June 1782 he received the rank of Col. in the East Indies ; and 18th Nov. 1790 that of Col. in the army. In the latter year he held the command of all the cav. on the coast of Coromandel, and continued in it till he quitted India. In the war with Tippoo, he took possession of Coimbalore with the van ; in Sept. took Sathinungulum, in command of a detachment. He was present at the action of Sathinungulum with Tippoo's army, the 13th Sept. ; atShowoor, 14th; and on 16th he joined the army commanded by Sir W. Medows. At the siege of Bangalore, in March 1791, he was wounded ; he was present in the general action near Se ringapatam in May, and at the second action near Seringapatam in Feb. 1792. He was next detached with cav., &c. to join the Bombay army, and marched into camp with it before Seringapa tam. In 1793, at the siege of Pondicherry he was second in com mand, and afterwards appointed Gov. of that place, to command the Southern division of the army, and stationed at Tritchinapoly. The 5th Oct. 1794 he received the rank of M. Gen. On the renewal of war with Tippoo in 1799, this officer was appointed second in command. He was in the action at Malavelly in March; and in April invested Seringapatam. He was after wards detached with cav. &c. to join the Bombay army in the Coorja country, and marched into camp with them. He was at the siege of Seringapatam, and afterwards detached to Cavriporam Pass, with cav., &c. to convey 40,000 loads of supplies. The 1 1th Sept. 1800 he was appointed Col. of the 23d light drag. ; 1st Jan. 1801 he received the rank of Lieut.-Gen. and was placed, during that year and 1803, on the Irish staff. The 13th Sept. 1804 he- was appoiiited Col. of the 8th light drag. In 1805-6 he com manded the forces in Ireland; and in 1809 he was placed on the staff at Cork. s6 this officer was ordered to Malta, to take the command of the blockade of La Valette, which place surrendered to him in the month of Sept. 1800. He returned to England at the peace, in the beginning of 1802; and the 20th April of that year he was promoted to the rank of Lieut. Gen. In the beginning of 1 804 he was placed on the staff in Ireland j and in May 1805 was removed to the staff in England, and con tinued on it till 1810. He was promoted to the rank of Gen. the 1st Jan. 1812. 75. Gen. George Bernard, Colonel of the 84th foot. The 11th Nov. 1762 this officer received an Ensigncy in the 30th foot; the 8th Aug. 1763 a Lieutenantcy in the 109th. He was on half pay from 1763 to 17th Jan. 1767, when he was appointed Lieut, in the 22d foot, and on the 3d Aug. 1769 Lieut, in the 6th drag. In the latter reg. he obtained a troop the 27th June 1774, and the 30th Nov. 1780 was removed to the 22d light, drag. ; the 20th Nov. 1782 he received the Majority ofthe 23d light drag. ; the 4th April 1783 the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 86th foot. The 2d Nov. 1793 he was appointed Lieut. Col. of the 84th ; and the 28th Feb. 1794, Col. ; the 3d May 1796 he received the rank of M. Gen.; that of L. Gen. the 25th Sep. 1803 ; and that of Gen. the 4th June 1813. In 1793 he raised the 84th foot, and accompanied it to Wal- cheren, in 1795, and afterwards joined the army in Holland; he was sent home to raise a second bat. which was completed in Sep. 1795, and reduced in 1796. In April 1808 he again raised a 2d bat. to the 84th. 76. Gen. Sir George Nugent, Bt.K. B. Colonel ofthe 6th foot. Appointed En9. 39th foot 5th July 1773, and joined the reg, at Gibraltar in Feb. 1774, where he remained till March 1776. The 100 «5eneratg. 23d Nov. 1775, he obtained a Lieutenantcy in the 7th foot ; in Sep. 1777 he joined his reg. at New York, and was employed in the ex pedition up Hudson's River, under Sir H. Clinton, for the relief of Gen. Burgoyne's army ; he was present at the capture of forts Montgomery and Ciinton, by assault ; he then proceeded with his reg. to Philadelphia, and there remained till the evacuation of that place by the British, in June 1778. The 28th April in the latter year he obtained a company in the 57th, and served with that corps in N. America; the 3d May 1782 he was promoted to a Majority in the 57th ; and in 1783 returned to England. The 8th Sep. 1783 he received the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 97th, and was placed on half pay ; the 26th Dec. 1787 he was appointed Lieut. Col. in the 13th foot ; and about the same time A. D. C. to the Ld. Lieut, of Ireland. The 16th June 1789 he was removed to the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 4th drag. gds. ; and the 6th Oct. 1790 exchanged into the Coldstream gds. He accompanied the brigade of gds. to the continent in March 1793, and served the campaign of that year in Flanders. He was at the siege of Valenciennes, battle of St. Amand, and action at Lincelles ; and on the army going into winter quarters, he returned home for the purpose of raising a reg. the 85th, which he completed in three months from the date ofthe letter of service ; and the 28th Feb. 1794 obtained the rank of Col, In Sep. following he accompanied his reg. to Walcheren, where he held the local rank of Brig. Gen. ; and in Oct. joined the army of the Duke of York, and obtained the command of a brigade of the line, cantoned in and near to the town of Tiel, on the Waal. In April 179.5 he was appointed Brig. Gen. on the staff in Ireland; M. Gen. in the, army 3d May 1796; and Adj. Gen. in Ireland July 1799, in which situation he continued till 1st April 18Q1, when he was appointed Lieut. Gov. and Com.-in-Chief of Ja maica, with trie local rank of Lieut. Gen., and where he continued until 20th Feb. 1 806, when he returned home. The 25th Sep. 1803 he received the rank of Lieut. Gen. in the army; and the 21st Aug. 1806 was placed on the staff in Great Brit., where he continued till Oct. 1809. The 27th Dec. 1805 he received the Colonelcy of the 62d foot ; 26th May 1806 that of the 6th foot; and the rank of Gen. 4th June 1813. This officer is captain or keeper of the garrison of St. Maws. 77. Gen. John Barclay, Colonel Commandant Royal Marines. This officer was appointed 2d Lieut, in the Mar. 15th March 1755. He served in the Mediterranean 1757-8-9, and in 1760 was present. SIR WILLIAM KEPPEL. 101 at the siege of Belleisle ; he next was employed on an expedition to the coast of Africa ; he was at the first relief of Gibraltar ; on board the Augusta at the attacks of Red Bank and Mud Forts, in the Delaware, where the Augusta was burnt in 1777; the capture of the Spanish Fleet, under Adm. Langar.i ; at tbe taking of Adm. Comte de Grasse, in the West Indies. His commission as 1st Lieut, was dated die 12th July 1756; as Capt. 14th Oct. 1762; as Maj. by brevet 19th Aug. 1777; and Lieut. Col. 19th Feb. 1783. The '-Mm Dec. 1791 he was appointed Maj. in his corps; the Ist March 1794 Col. by brevet; and the 29th Oct. 1794 Lieut. Col. in the Marines ; 2d Col. Com. 1st Feb. 1798; Col. Com. '^ 1st Dec. 1803 ; and Resident Col. Com. '24th Sep. 1806. He re ceived the rank of M. Gen. 3d May 1796; of L. Gen. 25th Sep. 1803; and of Gen. 4th June 1813. General Barclay was placed on the retired list the 28th April 1814, after a service of 59 years and a half. 78. Gen. William Macarmick. This officer was appointed Capt. in the 45th foot, 23rd March 1764: Col. in the army 11th Oct. 1779: Col. late 9Srd foot 7th Feb. 17S0: M. Gen. 3rd May 1796: L. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803 : and Gen. 4th June 1S13. 79. Gen. Sir Robert Stuart, Bart. Appointed Ens. 19th Aug. 1761 ; Ens. 30th foot 1st March 1762; Lieut. SOth April 1768; Capt. 19th Sept. 1771; Maj. late 77th foot 17th Dec. 1777; Lieut. Col. 19th Feb. 1783; Col. Loyal Brit. Fen. Inf. 1st March 1794; M. Gen. 3rd May 1796; Lieut. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803, and Gen. 4th June ISIS. • This officer served in the East Indies. SO. Gkn. Sir William Keppel, K. B. Colonel 67th foot. Appointed Capt. 23rd foot 21st March 1778; Lieut. Col. late 9Srd 20th Feb. 1783 ; Col. 1st March 1794 ; Col. 3rd West India Reg. 20th May, 1795; M. Gen. 3rd May 1796; L. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803; Col. Coram. 4di batt. 60th 24th April 1806; Col. 67th foot 7th Feb. 181 1 ; and Gen. 4th June 181S. 102 &tntt&l$. This officer served in North America, and in the West Indies. He is one of the equerries to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. 81. Gen. John Lord Hutchinson, K. B. Colonel of 18th foot and Governor of Stirling Castle. In 1774 this officer was appointed a Cornet in the 18th drag, and in 1775 a Lieut. ; in 1776 he was promoted to a company in the 67th; in 1781 to a majority; and in 1783 to a Lieut. Colonelcy in the 77th; The 1st March 1794 he was appointed Col. by brevet ; 3rd May 1796 M. Gen; 25th Sept. 1803 L. Gen.; 27 th April 1811 Col. of the 18th foot; and 4th June 1813 Gen. ; Ld. Hutchinson is Gov. of Stirling Castle. His Lordship served the campaigns in Flanders as extra A.-D.-C. to Sir R. Abercrombie ; he served in Ireland during the rebellion, and at the battle of Castlebar was second in command; in 1799 he was in the expedition to the Helder-, in the expedition to Egypt he was appointed second in command, and on the death of Sir R. Abercrombie the chief command devolved on his Lordship. For his services he had the honor of being created a peer of the realm, and a knight of the military Order of the Bath ; he was subsequently employed oa a mission to the Court of St. Peters burg. N. B. A memoir of his Lordship is given in the R. Mil. Panorama. 82. Gen. John Hamilton. Appointed Cornet 12th Oct. 1 780 i Cornet 4th drag. 24th May 1763 ; Lieut. 30th March 1768 ; Lieut. Col. in the army 20th Feb. 1795 ; Lieut. Col. 81st 23rd Dec. 1795 ; Col. in the army 1st March 1794; M. Gen. 3rd May 1796 j L. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803; and Gen. 4th June 1813. 83. Gen. Alexander L. Hat. Appointed Lieut. 7th drag. 1st Dec. 1758 ; and Capt. 8th June 1768 ; Col. in the army 1st March 1794 ; Col. late 109th 1st Oct. 1794; M. Gen. 3rd May 1796; L. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803 ; and Gen. 4th June 1813. The late 109th, styled Hay's reg. was raised by this officer. JAMES STEWART. 10.3 84. Gen. James Stewart, Colonel lafe 1st Royal Vet. Batt. This officer's first commission is dated the 29th July 1759 as an Ens. in the 17th foot. He was present at the siege of Ticonde- roga, and taking of Crown Point, in that year, previous to which in 1758, (when a volunteer in the 42d reg., in which his father died a Lieut., in 1746 soon after his return from the campaigns of that period in Flanders when he was present at the battles of Dettingen and Fontennoy) he was at the battle of Ticonderoga under Gen. J. Abercrombie. In 1760 he was at the siege of Isle au Noix, under Gen. Haviland, who commanded one of the armies that penetrated by that route ; he was at the surrender of Montreal, and all Canada, to his Majesty's arms under Gen. Ld. Amherst ; and at the end of the following year went to the W. Indies under Gen. Monckton, and in March 1762 was at the •iege of Fort Royal, and surrender of the Island of Martinique. The 6th May 1 762 he had the honor of being appointed Lieut. and Adj. of the same reg., although at this time but a young officer. He proceeded with the army under Gen. the Earl of Albemarle, to the Havannah; was at the siege and taking of that place, the 12th Aug. 1769, from whence the 17th reg. was again ordered to America, and employed in the back settle ments, at Detroit Michilimakinack, &c. After a war with, and subduing the Western Indians, this officer returned to England with the reg. about the end of the year 1767. The 10th June 1768 he obtained a company in the 68th and soon after proceeded to join the reg. at Antigua in which unheal thy country he remained for upwards of four years ; and was employed in subduing the Charibee Indians, in the Island of St. Vincent in 1773, and having the command of a large party, that penetrated through the woods, got in the rear of the enemy, and made them disperse, which was the means of facilitating their submission, and for which he was honored with the thanks of the commander Gen. Dalrymple. He returned to England with the reg. in 1773. The 12th Nov. 1788 he obtained the majority of the 68th and, after being stationed in Ireland for seven years, came to England in 1782 under an order for foreign service, and was embarked with troops on board transports for seven weeks, for that purpose, but detained by adverse winds. In the mean time, the general peace of 1783 took place. The 68th was soon after sent to the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and in 1785 to Gibraltar, where they remained for nine years. From that place this officer obtained his first and only leave of absence, during the whole time 104 <5cneratsf. he had been in the service, and "this with a view of acquiring some compensation for losses in America. The 22 to convey the usurper himself, with an army of upwards of 35,000 regular troops, which were assembled between Scylla and Reggio, across the narrow channel which divides Sicily from the continent. Four months were employed by the enemy in suc cessive embarkations and various demonstrations for this object : and towards the end of Sept., about 4000 men, headed by Gen. Cavignac, effectually made good their passage under cover of the night, and landed about seven miles to the southward of Messina. These adventurers, however, were not long permitted to retain their footing ; they were attacked as soon as morning broke by a division of the British troops posted in that direction, as well as by the Sicilian peasantry, who, with great spirit, rushed down from their mountains to rally round their allies. This conflict was short : the whole of the invaders, with their commander at their head, soon began to precipitate themselves in disorder and confusion towards their boats, which, nevertheless, a part only of the fugitives suc ceeded in gaining ; about eighteen hundred men with a Col., sixty officers, a standard, and other trophies, were left in the hands of the British Gen. ; and Murat, at length disappointed and discom fited in all his objects in which he had exhausted considerable treasures, as well as a prodigious number of lives, and daily seeing his gun-boats beaten or captured by the superior skill and bravery of the British and Sicilian flotillas under his immediate view, at length withdrew with disgrace and humiliation from the further prosecution of an enterprize in which his premature and osten tatious declaration to the world had so fully manifested his confi dence of his own success. The Prince Regent, in his first address to Parliament subsequently to this event, expressed his gracious consideration of the important defence of Sicily by the British Gen. and the army under his orders ; while the subjoined letter, from the royal hand of his Sicilian Majesty, manifested at the same time the impression entertained by that sovereign of the services to which he had been indebted. The badges of the illustrious order of St.Gennaro, and other honorable distinctions, were also conferred upon this officer from the same royal source, and were further tokens both to the Sicilian people and to the British Nation of the esti mation attached by his Sicilian Majesty to the services of this officer. Palermo, Oct. 1810. « To General Stuart, Count of Maida. " General — It is with the most lively emotion that I received the standard taken by your brave troops from the common enemy, who had dared, on the 18th of September, to attempt a footing on u4 Lieutenant «f5eneral£. on tliis part Of my dominions, defended by the valorous army of my ally, commanded by one of her most distinguished generals. And by the attachment of my Sicilian subjects, the success of that memorable day, which will make an epoch in the annals of Sicily, and of which the trophy which you have sent me, will recal for ever the glorious recollection, is for me a certain pledge that the efforts of our enemies will fail for ever before the bravery of the British army, seconded by the. loyal co-operation of my faithful subjects ; and would inspire me with the greatest confidence inf your loyalty and talents, if that was not already acquired by you. Believe that this sentiment equals my acknowledgment and es teem which I have for you. I pray God, General, to preserve you in his holy care. Signed, Ferdinand." After the termination of the above service, Sir J. Stuart was prompted, from objects of private concern, to solicit His Majesty's' permission to resign the command, of which he had now accom plished all the important duties, and which being permitted, he re turned to England. He has since been employed on the home' Staff; the 29th Dec. 1809, he received the Colonelcy of the 20tb foot. He is also Lieut. Gov. of Grenada. 139. Lieut. Gen. Duncan Campbell, Colonel of the 91st Foot. Appointed Ens. in the Royals, in Oct. 1780; 30th' June 1781, Lieut, in an independent company ; 13th Jan. 1782, Lieut, in the Royals ; 3d Jan. 1783, Capt. in the 45th ; 19th March 1783, Capt. in the 1st foot gds., with the rank of Lieut. Col. ; 25th April 1793, brevet Lieut. Col.; and 10th Feb. 1794, Lieut. Col. of the 98th, now 91st reg. In May 1795, this officer embarked with his reg., and was present at the taking of the Cape of Good Hope, in Sept. The 3d May 1796, he was appointed to the Colonelcy of his reg. ; and from Aug. 1796, to Feb. 1798, he served at the Cape as Brig; Gen.; and in Ireland, from June 1800, to his promotion to the rank of M. Gen. 29th April 1802. He served as M. Gen. on the staff,, in Ireland, from March 1803, to June 1804, when he was removed to the staff of Great Britain, and continued on it till 24th June 1806. The 25th April 1808, he was appointed .Lieut. Gen. THOMAS GROSVENOR, M.P. 145 140. Lieut. Gen. Thomas Grosvenor, M. P. Colonel of the 65th Foot. This officer was appointed, 1st Oct. 1779, Ens. in the 3d gds.; and Lieut, with the rank of Capt. 20th Oct. 1784. In 1793, he accompanied his reg. to Holland ; and was in the affair at St. Amand ; after which, being promoted to a company, he returned to England. In 1 794 he rejoined the 1st bat. of the 3d reg. gds. at Nimeguen, and accompanied the army in the retreat into Germany, in the memorable severe winter of 1794. The 3d May 1796, he received the rank of Col. In 1799 he went with the expedition to the Helder ; and was wounded in the affair at the lines of Zuip ; he commanded the gren. bat. of gds. at the battle of Aikmaer, whicli drove a French bat. of gren. into the wood under Aikmaer, called the Rampin Boss ; and took prisoners the French Col. Comm. and many men. In the summer of 1779, he accompanied the gds. to Ireland, and was for some time in quarters at Bandon : he Soon after sailed with the 3d gds. from Cork, and joined the expedition offFerrol ; he was next appointed with the rank of Brig. Gen. 27th Aug. 1800 to the command ofthe lt. troops, that were directed to obtain a landing on the Spanish Coast, in the attempt upon Cadiz : he returned soon after to England upon a misunderstanding with Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and conceiving an injustice done him in regard to his rank. The 29th April 1802 he received the rank of M. Gen. and was appointed to serve under Lieut. Gen. Simcoe, in the West of England ; from which he was removed to the London district, under Gen. Ld. Harrington, and from thence to the E. district, under Ld. Chatham. In 1 805 he served as M. Gen. in the expedition to Copenhagen, and was attached to the division commanded by Sir David Baird. He commanded the piquets and out-post at the siege of Copenhagen, on the day of the sortie, when the Danes made an unsuccessful attempt on the besieging batteries. The 25th April 1808, he received the rank of Lieut. Gen.; and in 1 809 he sailed from Harwich -with several regiments to join the expedition in the Downs, for the Island of Walcheren : he joined the grand army at the mouth of the Scheldt ; and at the siege of Flushing, was next in command to Sir Eyre Coote : he suffered severely from the Walcheren fever. The 25th Feb. 1807 this officer was appointed Col. of the 97th fpot, and the Sth Feb. 1814 removed to the 65th foot. R. Mil. Cal. I. 146 Lieutenant «&eneraf#. 141. Lieut. Gen. John Calcraet, Late first Major 2d Foot Guards. The 12th Feb. 1781, appointed Ens. in the 2d foot gds.; and Lieut., with the rank of Capt. 14th July 1785. From Feb. to May 1793, he served on the continent, and was present in the action at St. Amand. The 25th April 1793 he received the bre vet of Lieut. Col. ; and again served on the continent from July 1794 to May 1795. The 3d May 1796 he received the brevet of Col. ; and in May 1798 commanded the light inf. bat. of gds., in the expedition to Ostend, when he was taken prisoner and de tained till Nov. 1798. The 18th June 1801, he was appointed 2d Maj. of the Coldstream gds. ; and the 4th Aug. 1808, 1st Maj.-, the 29th April 1802, M. Gen. From 14th May 1803, to 9th May 1808, he served on the staff of the Western district; and the 25th April 1 808 was appointed Lieut. Gen. 142. Lieut. Gen. John, Lord Niddry, K.B. Colonel of92dfoot. Appointed Cornet in the 10th light drags. 28th May 1784; Lieut, in the 100th foot 24th Dec. 1785 ; 26th April 1786 Lieut. in the 27th foot; 31st Oct. 1789 Capt. in the 17th drags'. ; 25th April 1792 Maj. in the 2d foot ; 24th April 1793 Maj. and 26th Lieut. Col. in the 25th foot. He received the brevet of Col. 3rd May 1796 ; 27th Aug. 1799 the Colonelcy of the North Low land Fen.; 29th April 1802 was appointed M. Gen. ; 3rd Oct.. 1805 Col. of the 6th Batt. 60th ; 3rd Jan. 1806 Col. of the 92d; and 25th April 1808 L. Gen. For his services he was, created a Kt. of the Mil. Order of the Bath, and the 3d May 1814 a peer of the realm. This officer served as Maj. at Gibraltar ; as Lieut. Col. in the W.Indies where he was appointed Adj. Gen. 5th Oct. 1795; as Col. and Dep. Adj. Gen. on the expedition to the Helder, and as Adj. Gen. in the campaign in Egypt. He was in the actions ofthe 8th, 13th, and 21st March 1801. As Maj. Gen. he served on the Home Staff; and as Lieutenant General in Sweden, in the Walcheren expedition, in Portugal, and in Spain. He was present in the action of Coruna in Jan. 1809, and in Oct. 1814 was appointed second in command in the peninsula where he continued till the termination of hostilities. Lord forbes. 14,7 143. Lieut. Gen. Charles Barton, Lieut. Col. and Col. in 2d Life Guards. Appointed Sub Brig, and Cornet in the 2d Life Gds. 14th May 1779; Brig, and Lieut. 18th Jan. 1781; Maj. and Lieut. Col. 31st May 1793 ; Col. in the army 3rd May 1796 ; M. Gen. 29th April 1802 ; Lieut. Col. and Col. in the 2d Life Gds. 14th June 1S05 ; Lieut. Gen. 25th April 1808. This officer having been constantly in the Life Gds. from the time of his entering the army, has not seen any foreign service. 144. Lieut. Gen. James, Lord Forbes, M. P. Colonel of the 54th foot. Lord Forbes commenced his military services in June 1781 as Ens. in the Coldstream Reg. of Gds., and obtained his Lieute nantcy in the same corps in 1787. In April 1793, being senior Lieut, he joined the 1st batt. of the. Coldstream Reg. then serving in the army under the Duke of York in Flanders ; and com manded a company of that batt. at the battle of Famars, and during the siege of Valenciennes ; at the storming of which place he led the portion of the Coldstream Reg. which, in conjunction with the other troops appointed for that duty, formed the storming party under the orders of M. Gen. Leigh. He was present at ^very action of consequence, (including the siege of Dunkirk,) which took place under the Duke of York, and afterwards under Sir Ralph Abercrombie ; at Lincelles, Mouveaux, Tournay, Vaux, Cateau, Nymeguen, Fort St. Andre, &c. until the return of the Brig, of Gds. to Britain, after the retreat of the army through Holland and Westphalia, during the severe winter of 1794-5. His Lordship obtained the Capt. Lieutenantcy of the Coldstream Reg. with the rank of Lieut. Col. in Aug. 1793, after the action at Lincelles, in consequence of the death of Lieut. Col. Bosville, who fell on that occasion. Ld. Forbes succeeded to a company in the month of Oct. in the same year, by the death of Lieut. Col. Eld, who was killed at Dunkirk, and he obtained the brevet rank of Col. the 3rd May, 1796. In 1799, Ld. Forbes, then command ing the grenadier company of the Coldstream Reg. accompanied the force Under Sir Ralph Abercrombie destined to attack the Helder ; and was present in every action but one, which took place in that country during that short but active campaign. The 29th April 1802 Ld. Forbes received the rank of M. Gen. and in the same year was placed on the Staff in command of the jis Lieutenant «5enera[-s. troops stationed at Ashford in Kent, where he remained two years, and was then removed to the more important charge of the garri son at Dover, where he continued 3 years, occasionally command ing in the Kent district in the absence of Sir David Dundas, and of Ld. Ludlow; and on the appointment of Sir John Stuart in 1808 to be Commander of theTorces in the Mediterranean, Ld. Forbes was named second in command of that army, (then consisting of 17,000 men, which was afterwards increased to about 20,000) and accordingly proceeded in the early part of that year to Sicily, where soon after his arrival, he received the rank of L. Gen. 25th April 1808. Ld. Forbes remained three years and a half in that country, and was recalled to Britain, (soon after the discomfiture of the attempt at invasion by Gen. Murat) in consequence of the resignation of Sir John Stuart, and the appointment of a junior officer to the command of the army in Sicily. On his return to England, Ld. Forbes was placed on the Staff in Ireland where ha now remains in command of the Cork district. His Lordship was appointed Col. of the 3rd garrison batt. in 1806, and was removed to the command ofthe 94th Reg. in 1808, and to that of his present Reg. the 54th, the 18th Sept. 1809. His Lordship is one of the representative peers of Scotland, to which situation he was first elected in 1806. 145. Lieut. Gen. Henry, Earl of Uxbridge,, Colonel of the 7th Hussars. Lord Uxbridge, when Ld. Paget, at the beginning of the revolu tionary war in 1793 raised the SOth reg. of foot, or Staffordshire volunteers, a fine body of young men, principally on the estates of his father. On 600 men being raised his Lordship was presented, 12th Sept. 1793, with a Lieut. Colonelcy in the army ; and on 400 more being added he was offered a Colonelcy, which he refused on the grounds of his not having then been on foreign service. At this period the excellent regulations, since framed by the pre sent Com.-in-Chief, were not in force, and his Lordship's nomi nation to the permanent rank of Field Officer militated against no existing rule of promotion. Three months after the letter of service, his Lordship with his reg. embarked for Guernsey, and from thence, in 1794, joined H. R. H. the Duke of York in Flanders ; and in the retreat his Lordship, being senior field offi cer, was entrusted with the command of Ld. Cathcart's brigade, the latter officer having a separate corps to which his attention was necessarily directed. His Lordship received a commission as Lieut, in the 7th foot 11th March 1795; as Capt. in the 28rd EARL OF UXBRIDGE. 149 foot 25th March ; as Maj. in the 65th 29th May ; and as Lieut. Col. in the 16th light drag. 15th June 1795. The 3rd May 1796 his Lordship obtained the rank of Col. The 6th April 1797 he was removed from the SOth to the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 7th light drag., and accompanied the Duke of York in the expedition to Holland, and in command of the cavalry. In the general attack made on 2nd Oct. 1799 his Lordship was attached to the division under the command of the Russian Gen. de Hermaun, and posted on the sand hills. Late in the evening of that day the enemy's cavalry, having been defeated in an attempt which they made upon the British horse art., were charged by the cav. under this officer, and driven with considerable loss nearly to Egmont-op-Zee. In the retreat of that army his Lordship with the cav. protected the rear ; and some skirmishing having taken place, whereby seve ral pieces of cannon fell into the hands of the enemy, he with one squadron made an attack upon the force of Gen. Simon, amounting to above six times that of his Lordship's, totally repulsed them, obtained back the British, and with them several pieces of the enemy's cannon. The 16th May 1801 his Lordship was presented with the Colonelcy of his reg. the 7th drag. The 29th April 1802 he ob tained the rank of M. Gem; and 25th April 1808 that of Lieut. Gen. His Lordship went to Portugal in 1808, but was unattached and not engaged ; he subsequently with two brig, of cav. consist ing of the 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th reg. of hussars, followed the division sent under the command of Sir David Baird, in 1808, to co-operate with Sir John Moore in Spain. He disembarked his forces at Coruna, amidst innumerable difficulties from the want of forage, the apathy of the people of Spain, and the tardy sup plies they afforded, very different from what either the men or horses had been accustomed to, and proceeded in the route Sir David Baird's division was directed to take : and on 20th Dec. his Lordship's division effected a junction with the army under Sir John Moore. His Lordship was stationed with his division of cav. 12 miles from Sahagun ; at the latter place a body of the enemy's horse, amounting to 700, had been posted, which he proposed by a rapid movement, to cut off from the main body of the French army ; and in which he succeeded on the morning of the 21st. In the retreat of Sir John Moore, his Lordship with his cav. brought up the rear, and he was frequently exposed to imminent danger. Skirmishes daily took place, but the dispositions pf the cav. enabled the British troops to reach Coruna with a loss com paratively trifling, when all circumstances are taken into considera tion. At Majorga an attack was executed on a considerable force 150 Lieutenant Senerafe. ing the campaign of 1794, and on the retreat of the army through Holland and Westphalia in the winter of that year. He was ap pointed Military Secretary to the Duke of York, on H. R. H. being nominated Cam. -in-Chief of the army, when he returned to Eng land ; and in June 1795 exchanged to a company in the Cold stream gds. The 3rd May 1796 he received the brevet of Col. He accompanied the Duke of York to Holland in 1799 and con tinued as Secretary to H. R. H. until March 1803, when he was appointed Qr. Mast. Gen. to the forces. The 25th June 1799 he was appointed Col. Comm. of the 6th bat. 60th ; the 29th April 1802 M. Gen. ; and the 3rd Oct. 1805 Col. of the 9th foot. The 25th April 1808 he received the rank of Lieut. Gen., and ac companied tne expedition to the Scheldt in July 1809 ; he was present at "the siege of Flushing, and the subsequent operations in S. Beveland. In 1813 he was appointed Gov; and Com.-in-Chief of the forces in Ceylon. „ He has never been on half pay. 148. Lieut. Gen. William Knollis, Late 1st Major 3rd foot guards. This officer entered the service the 13th Dec. 1778 as an Ens. in the 3rd gds., and received a Lieutenantcy with the rank of Capt,- in March 1786. He joined the army in Flanders the 9th May 1793, and was present at every action the gds. were engaged in, including the siege of Valenciennes, till the army went irto winter quarters at Ghent ; he was also present at the succeeding cam paign, and in every action till Aug. 1794. In Dec. 1793 he ob tained a company in his reg, with the rank of Lieut. Col. He ser ved with the gren. bat. of gds. in the expedition to Holland in 1799, and was at all the actions that corps was engaged in, The 3rd May 1796 he .was appointed Col. by brevet ; and the 29th April 1802 M. Gen. He was on the Staff, commanding a brig, of Vol unteers in the London district ; and subsequently of the Militia brig, till the 25th April 1808, when he received the rank of Gen, The 16th Jan 1806 he was appointed 1st Maj. ofthe 3rd fooj gds. 149.' Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Edmund Phipps, Col. Comm. 3rd batt. 60th foot. Appointed Ens. 85th foot, 17th March 1780 ; Lieut. 88th foot, Dec. 14th 1780; and Lieut, in the 93rd, 23rd Feb. 1781. He served in Jamaica as Ens. and Lieut., and returned to England with WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT. 1 55' the 93rd reg. June 24th 1781. The 13th June 1782 he obtained a company in the 93rd, which he exchanged for a Capt. Lieuten antcy in the 1st foot gds. 21st Oct. 1784. In Sept. 1782 he vol unteered his services to Gibraltar, and landed there the 18th Oct. following ; he was appointed A.-D.-C. to Gen. Elliott the Gov. 5 and likewise did duty as Capt. with the 59th reg. At the peace of 1783 he was reduced on the half pay of the 93rd ; in Feb. 1784 he was appointed A.-D.-C. to the Duke of Rutland, then Ld. Lieut, of Ireland, in which situation he continued till the death of his Grace 24th Oct. 1787. The 12th May 1793 he joined the gren. bat. of the gds. at Tournay, and was present at the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk. The 9th Oct. 1793 he was promoted to a company, with the rank of Lieut. Col. in the 1st foot gds. and the 23rd Nov. following returned to England. The 3rd May 1796 he received the rank of Col ; and the 29th April 1802 that of M, Gen. The 17th Dec. 1803 he was placed on the Staff in York shire, and the 24th June 1804 removed to the London District; the 12th Aug. following to command the garrison at Portsmouth, and returned to the London District 12th Nov. 1804. The 25th June 1806 he was appointed to the Western District, where he continued till his promotion to the rank of Lieut. Gen. 25th April 1808 This officer was appointed a Member ofthe Clothing Board 3 1st May 1805 ; and Col. Comm. of the 3rd bat. 60m reg. 25th Aug. 1807. He likewise holds the situation of Clerk of Deliveries at the Board of Ordnance. 150. Lieut. Gen. William Cartwright, Colonel of the 3rd Dragoons. This officer was appointed to a Cernetcy in the 10th drag. 22d Feb. 1769; to a Lieutenantcy the 24th March 1775; the 26th Dec. 1778 Capt. Lieut, in the King's Own drag.; 29th June 1779 Capt. in the 10th drag. ; 10th May 1806 Maj. ; and 4th Dec. 1793 Lieut. Col. The 15th Dec. 1796 he was appointed A. D. C. to the King, and received the brevet of Col., and in 1799 he had the command of a brig, of cav. under orders for foreign service. The 29th April 1802 he received the rank of Maj. Gen. and was employed on the staff in England from 25th May 1802 to 9th May 1808 ; 1st in the inspection of cav. regiments, chiefly in the W. district, previous to a reduction in their establishment ; 2d in the command of the cavalry and other corps on the coast of Kent ; 3d in command of the cav. in the home district ; 4th in command of a brig, of cav. in Kent destined for foreign service. 154 Lieutenant «5eneraljt. The 13th Dec. 1804 this officer was appointed Col. of the 23d light drag., from which he was removed to the King's Own drag. 13th Nov. 1807 ; and the 25th April 1808 appointed Lieut. Gen. Lieut. Gen. Cartwright has been since appointed a Member of th« " Board of Claims." 151. Lieut. Gen. Ferdinand, Baron Hompesch. This officer was appointed Col. in the British service 8th Oct. 1796; M. Gen. 29th April 1802; Lieut. Gen. 25th April 1S08. 152. Lieut. Gen. H. S. H. William, Duke of Brunswick Oels. His Serene Highness was appointed Lieut. Gen. the 1st July 1809 ; and on'his corps being taken upon the British establishment, his commission as Col. of it was dated the 25th Sept. 1809. He quitted England for Brunswick during the late successful opera tions of the allied forces on the continent, and where H. S. H. re* mains at this period. 1.93. Lieut. Gen. George Elliot, Colonel Commandant in the Royal Marines. This officer entered the marines in the year 1755 ; the ISth March 1757 he was appointed 1st Lieut. ; the 18th April 1771 he ob tained a company ; in 1 782 a Majority ; 24th April 1795 -Lieut. Col. •, 26th Jan. 1797 Col. in the army; M. Gen. 21st Sept. 1803 ; Col. Com. in royal mar. 21st Dec. following ; and Lieut. Gen. 25th Oct. 1809. The services of this officer have been in America and up the Mediterranean ; and he was present at the battle of Bunker's HilJ. He has never been wounded or on half pay. 155. Lieut. Gen. Baldwin Leighton, Colonel ofthe 1st Garrison Battalion. This officer purchased a Lieutenantcy in Capt. Jenkins's indepen dent company, which formed with other companies the 96th reg. the 12th July 1760. In March 1761 he sailed for the E. Indies, and after doing garrison duty for some time in Fort St. George, he BALDWIN LEIGIITON. 155 took the field and was at the siege of Madura and two small forts. After an active campaign, his Majesty's troops were ordered home in consequence of the peace, in the year 1763. In the year 1765 this officer arrived in England, and was placed on half pay. On the 4th Feb. 1768 he purchased on to full pay in the 46th reg. The 12th Dec. 1770 he purchased a Capt. Lieute nantcy and the 14th March 1772 a company. In 1775 he was appointed Capt. of gren., and in Oct. sailed with the reg. for N. America, and was in the action of Brooklyn on Long Island, the taking of New York, and in the action on York Island, in the ac tion of White Plains, the storming of Fort Washington, the taking of Rhode Island, the action of Brandywine, the action near Mon mouth Court House, when he was severely wounded, besides, in many skirmishes, night attacks and foraging parties. In Nov. 1778 his health -was much impaired from the fatigue and hardships incident to an officer's life, upon active service, and he was there-. fore ordered to England, to the command of a recruiting company. On the 12th June 1782 he obtained the rank of Maj. in the army, and on the 20th Dec. 1787 he purchased the Majority of the reg. In March 1 792 he went in command of the reg. to Gibraltar, and on the 12th Oct. 1793 he obtained the rahk of Lieut. Col. in the army. In Nov. 1794 he sailed in command of the reg. to the W. Indies ; the 27th March 1795 he succeeded to the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 46th ; and in the beginning, of the year 1795 he was ordered from Martinico to St. Vincent's in command of the 46th reg. and was senior officer in the island. Here he was actively employed, against the French and Charaibs, who carried on a cruel and sa vage war ; the 46th reg. was engaged with them, together, and in detachments, 13 times, and in the short. period of eight months, suffered a loss of 400 men, out of 520. In 1796 the few remain ing men of the reg. were drafted, and the officers, and non-com missioned officers came to England in Oct. On the 26th of Jan. 1797 this officer was appointed Col. -in the army, the 11th Oct. 1798 he was appointed Brig. Gen. in Portugal, and commanded a brig, of the British auxiliary army. When the Spaniards invaded Portugal he served a campaign in that country. In 1802 he re turned from Portugal ; on the 25th Sept. 1803 he was appointed M. Gen., and the same day placed on the home staff at Sunderland and Newcastle on Tyne. In Jan. 1 807 he was placed on the staff in the island of Jersey ; on the 1 8th Sept. 1 809 he was appointed Col. of the 3rd, now the 1st, gar. bat. ; on the 25th Oct. 1809 he was appointed Lieut, Gen. and placed on the staff, and in com mand of the island of jersey, during the absence of Gen. Don, who was ordered to the island of Walcheren. In the latter end of May 1810 he was relieved by Gen. Don, and quitted Jersey, upon 156 Lieutenant «5encratsf. which he received a very handsome letter from the Adj. Gen. noti fying, to him the Com. in Chief's "approbation of his conduct, during his command in the island of Jersey. Since the latter pe* riod this officer has not been employed. 155. Lieut. Gen. John Coffin, Colonel of the New Brunswick Fencibles. This officer having served in America with the King's America! fencible reg. (for the services of which corps vide Gen. Fanning'* statement p. 70.) was appointed a Col", in the British army 26th Jan. 1797; M. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803; Lieut. Gen. 25th Oct. 1809; and Col. of the New Brunswick Fencibles 25th March 1813. 156. Lieut. Gen. Richard Armstrong. This officer served with the Queen's late American Rangers ia America, and was appointed Col. in the army 26th Jan. 1797 ; M, Gen. 25th Sept. 1803 ; and Lieut. Gen. 25th Oct. 1809. 157. Lieut. Gen. John Murray. This oflicer was a Capt. in the army the 21st Jan. 1778 ; Brig. Gen. in the W. Indies 9th Nov. 1796 ; Col. in the army 26th Jan. 1797 ; Brig. Gen. in Npva Scotia 18th Jan. 1798 ; M. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803 5 and Lieut. Gen. 25th Oct. 1809. 158. Lieut. Gen. Sir Charles Green, Colonel of the 37th Foot. Appointed Capt. 31st foot, Nov. 3, 1774; Maj.. in the armyl9th March 1783 ; Lieut. Col. 30th foot 19th Feb. 1794 ; Col. in the army 26th Jan. 1797 ; Brig. Gen. on the Staff of the Leeward Islands 11th Oct. 1798; M. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803*; Col. of the York light inf. vol. 16th Jan. 1804; Lieut. Col. 16th foot 29th Aug. 1808; Lieut. Gen. 25th Oct. 1809; and the 17th Feb. 1814,- Col. of the 37th foot. WILLIAM ST. LEGER. Uf 159. Lieut. Gen. William St. Leger, Late Lieut. Col. of the 24th Dragoons. This officer entered the service at the age of 16, the 30th of May 1775, and soon after sailed for Boston in the Triton frigate : she lost all her masts and after a variety of bad weather, in which from a putrid fever 40 seamen perished, she got back in 6 weeks to Ply mouth. In 1776 he sailed a second time for America; where he joined the 17th light drag, as cornet, and with that reg. served the five following campaigns, under the command of Sir W. Howe and Sir H. Clinton, in 1779. He obtained by purchase a Lieutenantcy in the 17th light drag, after serving on the expedition to Dan'bury, in New England ; under the com. of Maj. Gen. Tryon and Sir W. Erskine, whose joint approbation he received ; having repeatedly charged the enemy with the small detachment which as Cornet he commanded. In 1780 he was promoted to a company in the 86th foot, and proceeded without loss of time to join his reg. in tbe W. Indies; where he remained during 1781-2, and 3, till peace with France was concluded ; at that period he returned to England and purchased a troop in his former reg., the ,17th light drag. In 1789 he purchased a Majority in the 6th drag, gds., which had been so converted at the time from one of the regs. of horse then in Ireland. In 1793 he was appointed Lieut. Col. of the 93rd foot; in Nov. 1794 the Earl of Westmoreland then Ld. Lieut, of Ireland, who had witnessed the exertions of Maj . St. Leger with the 6th drag. gds., granted him a letter of service, under which he raised a drag. reg. the late 31st, in little more than three months, without levy money, and on the reduction of that reg. he was appointed to the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 27th now 24th light drag., which he joined 3 months after, in the E. Indies. The public records have spoken highly of his services in that country, particularly under the com mand of the late Ld. Lake, where he commanded the British and native cavalry for a considerable length of time ; in the affairs ot Coel and Allyghur, the battle of Delhi, and at the taking of Agra} at the battle of Delhi, Col. St. Leger received the particular thanks in public orders of the Com. in Chief Ld. Lake, having repeatedly charged the enemy at the head of his own brig., and lost in killed and wounded, nearly 100 men and 200 horses. The loss of tha enemy by our cav. was very considerable. Col. St. Leger command* ed the cav. at the sieges of Sarsney, Cachoura, Allyghur, and Bidgeghur ; he remained in the command of it, till his return to England in 1804. He was appointed 25th Sept. 1803 M. Gen., and placed on the Staff in this country in 1804. In 1807 he re turned to India where he also served on the Staff as M. Gen., and 158 Lieutenant (©entrap. remained in that situation till his return to Europe in 1811, as Lieut. Gen. (which commission was dated 25th Oct. 1809) having commanded the army in the field during the time of his stay, and the army of Bengal at two different periods for 10 months, during the absence of the Com. in Chief. 160. Lieut. Gen. Richard Northey Hopkins. This officer was a Capt. in the 32nd foot 12th Nov. 1778 ; and Lieut. Col. in the same reg. 5th Nov. 1793 ; Col. in the army 26th Jan. 1797 ; M. Gen. 25th Sep. 1503 ; and Lieut. Gen. 25th Oct. 1809. 161. Lieut. Gen. Thomas Hartcup. Late Lieut. Col. in the Royal Invalid Engineers. Appointed Practitioner Eng. and Ens. 26th Feb. 1763 ; Sub. Ens. and Lieut. 4th Dec. 1770 ; Ens. Extraordinary and Capt. Lieut. 4th Marchl776; Lieut. Col. in the Royal Invalid Eng. 27th Nov. 1793; Col. in the army 26th Jan. 1797; M. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803 ; and Lieut. Gen. 25th Oct. 1809. 162. Lieut. Gen. Patrick Sinclair. This officer was appointed Lieut. 27th July 1760; Lieut, in the 15th foot 24th Oct. 1761 ; Capt. in ditto ; Maj. in the late 84th foot 12th June 1782 ; Lieut. Col. in the army 12th Oct. 1793; Col. 26th Jan. 1797 ; M. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803; and Lieut. Gen. 25th July 1810. 163. Lieut. Gen. George Fead, Colonel-Commandant in Royal Artillery. This officer entered the service the 8th June 1757 as Lieut. Fire worker in the royal Art., and immediately proceeded to America. In 1758 he wa3 present at the siege of Louisbourg, and was subse quently in the same year taken prisoner at Newfoundland, exchang ed and sent to England. He went out to America a second time, and served on that continent between five and six years, part of which period he was at Pensacola ; the 21st March 1760, he. had received the rank of 2nd Lieut.; 23 rd May 1764, that of 1st Lieut.; and 1st Jan. 1771, that of Capt. Lieut. He served from 1774 at Minorca,. upwards of seven years, and commanded the royal Art. under the JOHN PR ATI. I5g late Gen. Murray, at the greater part of the period of the siege of that place, during which he was wounded severely and lost the sight of an eye by the bursting of a shell. The 7th July 1779, he received a company in the Art. ; and the 19th March 1783 the brevet of Maj. In 1790 he went to Newfoundland a second time, and remained there nearly two years; the 16th Nov. 1794, he was appointed Maj. in the Art.; he served in the campaigns of 1793 and 1794, under the Duke of York, and 5th Dec. of the former year was appointed Lieut. Col. in the Art. In 1799 he went out to Jamaica, and commanded the royal Art. ; 2nd Oct. 1799, he was appointed Col. en second in the Art. ; 28th June 1805 Col. Com.; 25th Sept. 1803, M. Gen. ; and 25th July 1810 Lieut. Gen. ; and afterwards Lieut. Gov. of Port Royal. Gen. Fead's services abroad are nearly thirty years : he has had nine sons in the service, four of whom have been killed, and died, while serving abroad against the enemy. 164. Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Blomefield, Bt. Colonel Commandant in the Royal Artillery. Appointed Lieut. Fireworker in royal art. 1st Jan. 1759; 2d Lieut.- 1st Aug. 1762; 1st, 20th Dec. 1765 ; Capt. 29th Jan. 1773; Maj. 19th March 1783 ; Lieut. Col. royal Art. 5th Dec. 1793;. Col. in the army 26th Jan. 1797 ; Col. in the royal Art. 12th Nov. 1800 ; M. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803 ; Col. Comm. royal Art. 1st June 1806 ; and Gen. 25th July 1810. 165. Lieut. Gen. Gother Mann, Col. Commandant in Rl. Engineers, andlnsp. Gen. of Fortifications- Appointed Practitioner Eng. and Ens. in the rl. Eng. 27th Feb. 1763 ; Sub Eng. and Lieut. 1st April 1771 ; Eng. Extra and Capt. Lieut. 2d March 1777 ; Lieut. Col. 5th Dec. 1793 ; Col. in the army 26th Jan. 1797 ; Col. in the Eng. 18th Aug. following ; M. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803; Col. Comm. rl. Eng. 13th July 1805; Lieut. Gen. 25th July 1810 ; and subsequently Insp. Gen. of fortifications. 166. Lieut. Gen. John Pratt, Colonel ofthe late Rl. Irish Artillery. t Appointed Lieut. Fireworker in the royal reg. of Art. in Ireland 169 Lieutenant Generate. 28th Jan. 1771; Capt. 14th Feb. 1779; Lieut. Col. 20th May 1795; Col. in the army 26th Jan. 1797 ; Col. in the late royal Irish art. Slst May 1800, (allowed to retire on half pay); M. Gen. 25th Sept. 1803 ; Lieut. Gen. 25th July 1810. 1£7. Lieut. Gen. Forbes Champagne, Colonel Commandant in 95th Foot. In 1773, this officer obtained an Ensigncy in the 4th foot, and served in America ; he was present at the battle of Lexington, and in Boston, at the time it was blockaded by the rebels. In 1775, he was promoted to a Lieutenantcy in the 4th, and the same year re moved to the 1st bat. light inf. He was employed in the expedition against New York ; was present at the action in Long Island ; at the landing and action on York Island ; at the action on Frog Neck ; and at the action and taking of Fort Washington : he was also at the landing in the Jerseys, and at the several actions in that province, in which his bat. was engaged : he was present in the expedition to Philadelphia, and at the action on landing ; at the battles of Brandywine, German Town, Monmouth Court House, and several others of less importance. - In 1779 he was promoted to a company in the 23d foot ; and in 1780, removed to the mounted light inf. In the expedition to S, Carolina, he was present at the siege of Charlestown ; at the battles of Camden, Guildford Court House, and at every other in which Ld. Cornwallis was engaged in the two Carolinas, and Virginia. After serving 7 years in America, Capt. Champagne returned to England, and in 1793 obtained the Majority of the 80th, and the same year the Lieut. Colonelcy. He served with the 80th in Holland ; and was at the siege of Nimeguen, and the whole of the ensuing winter campaign. In 1795 he was removed to the 20th foot; the 26th Jan. 1797, he received the brevet of Col. ; and during the rebellion in Ireland in 1798, he was employed as Brig. Gen. In 1799 he joined the army at the Helder, and re turned to Ireland the same year; in 1800 he was placed on the staffof theS. W. district; the 25th Sept. 1803, appointed M. Gen.; in 1806, to the command of the W. district, and to the Colonelcy of the 8th gar. bat.; in May 1807, to the staff of the army in the E. Indies, where he served for a considerable period. The Slst August 1809, he was appointed a Col. Comm. in the 95th foot; and the 25th July 1810, Lieut. Gen. SIR HARRY CALVERT. 161 168. Lieut. Gen. Josiah Champagne, Colonel ofthe 41st Foot. This officer received, 28th Jan. 1775, an Ensigncy in the 31st foot; in March 1776 he embarked with his reg. and landed in America ii: May, and remained on active service till the peace, when he returned to England. The 11th July 1777 he obtained his Lieutenantcy; in April 1783 a company in the 99th foot ; and in March 1784 a company in the 3d foot. Capt. Champagne" joined his corps in May of the latter year in Jamaica, and in 1785 went with the expedition to the Spanish Main ; he continued in the W. Indies 5 years, and then returned to England. In 1793 he again embarked for the W. Indies, under the late Sir C. Grey, but proceeded to the relief of Nieuport ; the 18th Sept. was appointed to a Majority in the 80th foot ; and the 19th Dec. to a Lieut. Colonelcy. In 1794 he again went to the continent, and returned with the army in 1795 ; he twice embarked in the latter year in command of his reg. for the coast of France : the misfortune at Quiberon prevented the first expedition from proceeding beyond Plymouth ; the second, under M. Gen. Doyle, took possession of Isle Dieu, and remained on that service till Jan. 1796, when he re turned to England. In March 1796 Lieut. Col. C. embarked in command of his reg. for the Cape of Good Hope, and at the close of this year sailed with the reg. for the E. Indies. The 26th Jan. 1797 he was appointed Col. by brevet ; and in 1800 to the com mand of an expedition against Batavia, with the rank of Brig. Gen. but which was subsequently countermanded. In 1801 he was ap pointed second in command to the army that sailed from India for Egypt; in 1803 he returned to England; and the 25th Sept. of that year was appointed M. Gen. ; and the 25th July 1810L. Gen.; the 25th Feb. 1810, Col. of the 41st foot. 169. Lieut. Gen. Sir Harry Calvert, Colonel of the 14th Foot, and Adjutant General. The 24th April 1778 this officer was appbinted 2d Lieut, in the 23d foot; and in March 1779 embarked to join that corps in N. America. The 2d Oct. 1779 he was appointed Lieut, and em barked from New York for the siege of Charlestown ; he served R. Mil. Cat. 1. L iG2 Lieutenant «5cneral;j. during that siege and the ensuing campaigns, which terminated with the surrender of Charlestown, and was present at the different actions that occurred with the exception of that of Camden. The 23d Nov. 1785 he obtained his company ; and the 19th Feb. 1790 exchanged it for a Lieutenantcy in the Coldstream gds., with the rank of Capt. In 1793 Capt. Calvert embarked with the brig, of gds. for Holland, and was soon after appointed A.-D.-C. to the Duke of York, in which capacity he served during the years 1793 and 1794, and was present at the sieges and actions in which the British troops were engaged during that period, with the exception of the affair at Lincelles, when he was in England, having been charged with the dispatches announcing the surrender of Valen ciennes ; he was likewise present at the battle of Wattiguies, fought between the Imperial army under Prince Coburg, and the French under Gen. Jourdan, towards the close of the campaign of 1793. The 1st July 1793 he received the brevet of Maj. ; the 25th Dec. a company, with the rank of Lieut. Col.; the 29th April 1796 he was appointed Dep. Adj. Gen. ; the 26th Jan. 1797 Col. by brevet; the 9th Jan. 1799 Adj. Gen.; 17th Jan. Lieut. Col. of the 63d foot ; *6th Aug. 1800 Col. ofthe 5th W. India reg.; 25th Sept. 1803 M. Gen. ; 8th Feb. 1806 Col. of the 14th foot ; and the 25th July 1810 Lieut. Gen. 170. Lieut. Gen. George Cockburn. This officer was appointed Ensign in the 1st foot guards in May, 1781 ; Captain Lieutenant in the 105th foot in May 1784; Captain Lieutenant 65th foot in April 1785; Captain in the 15th foot in Feb ruary 1-787 ; Captain in 5th or royal Irish dragoons in March 1790; which commission was antedated to November 1789; Major royal Irish independent Invalids in November 1790; Major 92nd foot in November 1793 ; Lieutenant Colonel 92nd foot 31st December following; Colonel by brevet 26th January 1797 ; Major General 25th September 1803; and Lieutenant General 25th July 1810. This officer was Aid-de-Camp to Lord Heathfield at the siege of Gibraltar in 1782; after the peace of 1783, and till 1793, he was in Prussia, Germany, and France (at such periods as he could ob tain leave of absence from regimental duty,) attending the chief military exercises at Potsdam, Magdeburg, Silesia, and in the Austrian states. In January 1806, he was placed on the Staff in England as Major General, on which he remained till the spring of 1810, when he was removed to the Mediterranean Staff, and JAMES DRUMMOND. l6"3 lent to Sicily, and on the notification of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant General in November 1810, his Staff situation ceased; but he did not return to England till September 1811, since which time he has not been employed. 171. Lieut. Gen. Edward Dunne. This officer was appointed Ens. in the 26th reg. 9th Sept. 1780 ; he proceeded to join in America, but before he reached Carolina the British army was taken at York Town ; 24th Dec. 1783 he was reduced on half-pay; and 21st April 1784 he exchanged to full pay of the 56th ; 24th May following he was promoted to a Lieutenantcy in the 74th ; and 24th June again reduced on half- pay, from which he exchanged to the full-pay of the 14th light drag. 28th Dec. The 6th July 1785 he obtained a Company in the 44th ; 30th Sept. 1791 a Majority in the 7th drag. gds. ; and Slst Dec. 1793 a Lieut. Colonelcy in the latter reg. The 26th Jan. 1797 he received the brevet of Col. ; and in March 1798 was appointed Brig. Gen. on the Staff in Ireland, and served during the rebellion of that year ; he was removed to the command of the light column of the N. District in Ireland, and remained there till July 1799, when he embarked for Holland. The 24th Oct. 1799 he was appointed Col. of the Pembroke fen. cav. and reduced on half-pay 31st Aug. following. The 25th Sept. 1803 he received the rank of M. Gen. with which he served, on the Irish Staff, for some years; and 25th July 1810 was appointed Lieut. Gen. 172. Lieut. Gen. James Drummond, Colonel of the late 7th Garrison Battalion. The 10th Oct. 1776 this officer was appointed Ens. in the 40th foot ; he served in America, in the campaign of 1777 in the Jer seys, and was in the different actions ; he was at the battle of Brandywine, the surprising of Wayne's brig., the battles of Ger mantown and Monmouth, and the retreat from Philadelphia. The 10th Aug. 1778 he was appointed Lieut, in the 43rd, and whilst holding that rank was at the taking of Washington's drag. &c. ; at the siege of Charlestown, and was constantly with the army till the peace of 1783. The 17th Jan. 1787 he was appointed to a i6-i Lieutenant «3eneral.s. Company; 19th Sept. 1793 embarked for the W.Indies; 2nd Dec. obtained a Majority; and 31st Dec, in the same year, a Lieut. Colonelcy in his reg. He commanded the 43rd at the sieges of Martinique, St. Lucie, and Guadaloupe, and was made prisoner on the French retaking the latter place in 1794 ; in 1795 he made his escape 'and returned to England. The 26th Jan. 1797 he received tbe brevet of Col. and returned to the W. Indies; 29th May he' was appointed Brig. Gen. and sent to command at the island of St. Lucie, where he remained till Aug. 1798, and then returned home. In Dec. he was placed on the Irish Staff, where he remained till 1802; in May 1803 he was appointed a Brig. Gen. in Guernsey; 25th Sept. 1803 M. Gen. and removed to the Portsmouth District; 16th March 1804 to the Staff at Malta, and on his arrival at the latter place to the Staff at Gibraltar, where he continued for a considerable period. The 1 4th June 1 807 he was appointed Col. of the 7th garrison bat. ; and 25th July 18 10 Lieut. Gen. 173. Lieut. Gen. William Dowdeswell, Late Lieutenant Colonel in the 60th Foot. The 6th May 1780 this officer was appointed Ens. in the 1st foot gds. ; in 1782 A.-D.-C. to the late Duke of Portland then Ld. Lieut, of Ireland ; 4th May 1785 he received a Lieutenantcy with the rank of Capt. in his reg. ; and in 1793 he joined the army under the Duke of York at Tournay. In the action at Lincelles Capt. Dowdeswell commanded a Company, and was present at the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk. The 8th Feb. 1794 he succeeded to a Company with the rank of Lieut. Col. ; and in Nov, 1797 was appointed Gov. and Com.-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands, from whence he returned to England in July 1801. The 25th June 1797 he received the brevet of Col. and the 18th Jan. 1798 a Lieut. Colonelcy in the 60th foot; and 24th Feb. 1803 was re- movedto the 86th. In 1 802 Col. Dowdeswell was appointedPrivate. Secretary to Lieut. Gen. Ld. William Bentinck, then Gov. of Madras ; 25th Sept. 1803 M. Gen.; and 1st Oct. 1804 to the Staff of the Bengal army, which he joined 3 1st Dee. 1804, and was immediately given the command of a wing thereof. In the latter situation he continued during the active operations then carrying on against the Mahratta chiefs beyond the frontiers of the British territories, and including the siege of the fortress of Bhurtpore. In Oct. 1805 he was detached by Ld. Lake in command of a separate divi- ALEXANDER MACKENZIE. l6s sion of the army, consisting of 8000 men, to co-operate with his Lordship in preventing the incursions of the enemy, and protect ing that portion of the E. India Company's territory called the Doab, and remained in the field till hostilities ceased. On the return of the army into cantonments the M. Gen. was appointed to the command of the station at Cawnpore and its dependencies. On Ld. Lake's departure for England in Feb. 1807, this officer succeeded, by the appointment of the supreme government of Bengal, to the chief command of the troops, in which he con tinued till compelled to return to England, where he arrived in Nov. 1808. He received the thanks of the government in India for his conduct. The 2nd June 1808 he obtained a Lieut. Co lonelcy in the 60th foot; and 25th July 1810 was appointed Lieut. Gen. 174. Lieut. Gen. Alexander Mackenzie, Late Lieutenant Colonel ofthe 36th foot. Appointed Ensign in the 1st foot in June 1787 ; Lieutenant in 1790 ; Captain in the 42nd in 1792 ; and Major in the 78th in 1793. He served with Ld. Moira's army in the expedition of that year to the relief of Ostend. In 1794 he was appointed Lieut. Col. in the 78th, from which he exchanged to' the 36th 22d May 1797. In 1795 he accompanied Sir James Craig as second in command to the Cape of Good Hope. He received the brevet of Col. 26th Jan. 1797, and was appointed Brig. Gen. under Ld. Cornwallis in Ireland in 1800, and in the same year Brig. Gen. under Sir Ralph Abercrombie in the Mediterranean ; he remained with that rank at Minorca in consequence of the.brigade he com manded being composed of regiments whose services were limited to Europe. The 25th Sept. 1803 he was appointed M. Gen. and placed on the staff of Great Britain ; he was from thence removed to the staff of Ireland ; and subsequently to the Mediter ranean. The 25th July 1810 this officer obtained the rank of Lieut. Gen., and was again placed on the staff in Ireland, from which he retired at the peace with France in 1814. 166 Lieutenant Generate. 175. Lieut. Gen. George Moncrieffe, Colonel of the Cape Reg. Appointed Ens. in the 10th foot in May 1775; Lieut, in 1776; and Capt. in the 81st in 1777. This officer served as a subaltern three years in America ; he was at the taking of Fort Washing ton, landing on Rhode Island, and battle of Brandywine. In 1793 he received the brevet of Maj. ; and in Feb. 1794 was appointed Lieut. Col. in the 90th, he served at Gibraltar 3 years ; in 1793 he served at Toulon, and in 1794 again went to Gibraltar. He was present at the taking of Minorca, and from thence was ordered to Malta, and appointed to a corps of Maltese raised by M. Gen. Graham ; he remained there till the surrender, and some time after returned to Minorca, where he continued until it was ceded to Spain. He was next ordered to the W. Indies, from whence he shortly re turned on account of ill health ; in 1 809 he was appointed to the staff of the E. district; and afterwards to the staff of the expedi tion to Walcheren. The 25th Sept. 1803 this officer was ap pointed M. Gen. ; 25th July 1810 Lieut. Gen.; and 27th April 1811 Col. of the Cape reg. 176. Lieut. Gen. Thomas Meyrick, Late Lieutenant Colonel ofthe 21st Foot. Appointed Ens. in the 2d foot in Aug. and Lieut* in the 6th foot in Nov. 1779; Capt. in the 28th in Feb. 1781. The latter reg. Capt. Meyrick joined at Antigua, and in Dec. 1782 embarked with Gen. Prescott for the ¦ relief of St. Kitts ; he was present in the three engagements of the latter month off St. Kitts, between Sir S, Hood and Adm. De Grasse's fleet ; he afterwards landed on that island with the troops, and was in all the actions that took placg until die re-embarkation. The 1st Jan. 1794 he obtained a Majority in the 82d ; 10th Feb. 1794 a Lieut. Colonelcy in the 99th ; and SOth Sept. following exchanged into the 21st foot, which corps he joined immediately in the W. Indies. The 26th Jan. 1797 he re ceived the brevet of Col. ; in May 1798 he was Brig. Gen. in Ire land, and continued there till the peace in 1 802, and was re-ap pointed the 15th Feb. following ; 25th Sept. 1803 he received the rank of M. Gen. and was removed to the Brit, staff 17th Oct. in LORD LYNEDOCIT. I67 the same year ; and in March 1804 was again placed on the staff of Ireland, where he is at present serving. The 25th July 1810 this officer received the rank of Lieut. Gen. 177. Lieut. Gen. Thomas, Lord Lynedoch K.B. Colonel ofthe 90th- foot. This officer at the commencement of the war in 1793 went up the Mediterranean with Ld. Hood's fleet, and landed with the troops at Toulon, and served as a volunteer and extra A. D. C. to Ld. Mulgrave, and obtained the particular thanks of the Gen. for his conduct. On his return to this country he raised the 1st bat. of the 90th reg. of which his commission as Lieutenant Colonel Com mandant, was dated the 10th February 1794; this corps formed a part of Gen. the Earl of Moira's army which was encamped onNetley common, it passed the summer of 1795 at Isle Dieu, and soon afterwards was ordered to Gibraltar. The 22d July 1795 he ob tained the rank of Col. The duties of Gibraltar being only such as a strong, garrison demanded, Col. Graham obtained permission to join the Austrian army, where he continued during the memorable summer of 1796. The intelligence of the military operations and diplomatic measures adopted by the continental generals and princes, were transmitted to this country by the Colonel. He was afterwards attached lo the Austrian army of Italy, and was shut up in Mantua with General Wurmsur during the investment of that- city. The city of Mantua continuing in a state of siege, and a mere defen sive warfare not being consonant with his ideas of active service, Colonel Graham resolved to depart from the besieged garrison. On the night of the 24th of December he quitted Mantua with every elementary obstacle opposed to his undertaking, in a deluge of rain, and with only one attendant. Mantua being seated on a lake formed by the Mincio, and the regular channels of commu nication with the main land being in possession of the besiegers, it was only by embarking in a boat that the Colonel could effect his purpose of escape ; and sucli was the impenetrable darkness of the night, that the vessel landed several times on the islands of the lake or river before the point he wished to reach could be dis covered. Having after much difficulty obtained a landing on a desirable spot, he travelled during the night on foo', wading through mire and swamps, and in momentary danger of losing his way, with the additional apprehension of falling ingloriously by a shot from the numerous picquets posted in every part; or of io"8 Lieutenant itself with glory on the plains of Egypt. This fine corps formed the advanced guard of the first line on the 21st of March, 1801. Desirous to rejoin his battalion, this officer again left England and landed in Egypt, but that country being completely conquered, he soon quitted it, and travelled to Europe with Mr. Hutchinson, the brother of Lord Hutchinson, through Turkey. He made some stay at Constantinople, and peace being concluded, a short residence at Paris. From 1803 to 1805 he served in Ireland with his regiment, but it being ordered out to the West Indies, in the latter year, he remained without actual employment till the spring of 1808. His rank, which was to have been progressive from the period of his levy, by some misunderstanding had remained stationary. Sir John Moore, being appointed to lead an armament to the shores of Sweden, and also entrusted with an important diplomatic mis sion to the ex-king of that country, Colonel Graham solicited per mission to accompany him as Aide-de-Camp. His Royal High ness, the Commander-in-Chief, having given his consent, he em barked with that officer. The expedition proceeded to Gotten- burg, where the troops continued on board the transports while Sir John Moore was endeavouring to make arrangements with the court of Sweden. Colonel Graham took this opportunity of tra versing the country in all directions. The misunderstanding between the king of Sweden and Sir John Moore having put an end to his mission, that officer was im mediately ordered to Spain, whither he was accompanied by Colonel Graham, who served during the whole of the campaign of 1 808. On his return to England he was promoted to die rank of Major General, and was shortly after appointed to command a division in the expedition to Walcheren ; he was actively employed at the siege of Flushing, but being attacked by the fever, he re turned to England. The possession of Cadiz being about this time disputed by the Spanish patriots and the French ; this officer, with the brevet rank of Lieutenant General, was sent to take the command of the British iyo Lieutenant General.*. troops, in that fortress. In February 1811, he embarked in the expedition for the purpose of making a combined attack on the rear of the French army blockading Cadiz, and on the 5th March, he fought the battle of Barrosa. In the summer of 181 1, he was relieved from his duty at Cadiz, and joined the army under Lord Wellington, of which he -was ap pointed second in command. He was present at the siege of Cuidad Rodrigo, but having a complaint in his eyes occasioned by the use of a spying-glass under a sun almost vertical, together with much writing by candle-light, he was obliged to return to England. Early in 1813, he again quitted England for the Peninsula ; he was not engaged in any action of magnitude till that of Vittoria, when he commanded the left wing of the British army. He was present in the different affairs that followed, and commanded the army employed in the siege of the town and citadel of St. Sebastian ; the former surrendered to him on the 9th September by capitula tion, and the citadel was taken by storm on the 31st of the same month. The left of the British army being directed to pass the Bidassoa river, the natural boundary of France and Spain ; this officer was entrusted with that service, and on the 7th October, after an ob stinate resistance from the enemy, he succeeded in establishing the British army on French ground. In consequence of ill health, he " resigned his command to Lieutenant General Sir John Hope, now Lord Niddry, and returned to England. In 1814, he was appointed commander of the forces in Holland, with the temporary rank of General. The 3rd of May of the same year, after receiving the thanks of Parliament for his conduct in the Peninsula, he was raised to the Peerage by the title of Baron Lynedoch of Ballgowan, in the county of Perth. 178. Lieut. Gen. Charles Craufurd, Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, and Lieutenant Governor of Tynemouth and Cliff Fort. Appointed to a Cornetey in the 1st dragoon guards 15th Dec. 1778 ; to the Adjutantcy 4th May 1780 ; to a Lieutenantcy 25th' April 1781 ; and to a troop 9th July 1783. In Feb. 1793, Captain Craufurd was appointed Aid-de-Camp to the Duke of York; he was present at the battle of Merevinden, between the Austrians and French in March, having been sent by His Royal Highness to the Prince Coburg, and at the cannonade of Tirlemont, two days previous to that battle ; at three severe attacks made by the enemy in the Spring of 1793, upon General Clerfayt's position at Raimes GEORGE HENRY VANS1TTART. 171 and Vicogne, whilst the Duke of York's head quarters were at Tournay, His Hoyal Highness having sent him there to report to him upon those occasions. In May 1793, he was appointed Major by Brevet; he was at the last attack made upon the position of Raimes, and previous to the investment of Valenciennes, in which affair a part of the British were engaged ; also at the battle of Famars, siege of Valenciennes, attack of the camp de C6sar, battle of Cateau, the attack made upon the Emperor's position to raise the siege of Landrecy, the actions of the 17th and 18th May, at Roubaix, Lannoy, arid Mouveaux ; and at the actions and battles at Tournay, previous to the retreat out of the Low Countries. During these events this officer was appointed to the Majority of his regiment the 29th January 1794; Lieutenant Colonel by Brevet in February; Lieutenant Colonel in his regiment in May; and Deputy Adj. Gen. to the Duke of York's army. In 1795 Lieutenant Colonel Craufurd was sent to the Austrian armies on the Rhine, and was present at the attack of General Jourdan on General Clerfayt, near Weilbourg on the Lakes, which obliged the latter to retreat beyond the Mayne ; at the attacks upon General Jourdan's rear guard near Konigstein, and on its passage of the Lahn; the attack of General Clerfayt on the intrenched camp of Mayence ; the two attacks made by the latter General upon General Pichegru's army, to complete the investment of Manheim; the sie^e of Manheim ; two severe actions between the Archduke Charles and General Jourdan, the one near Wetylar, and the other at Altenkirch; a severe action near Rastadt between the Austrians under General Latour, and the French under General Dessaix, whilst the Archduke was in the neighbourhood of Ettlingen; a severe action at Stutgard ; another at Canstadt; another near Nordlingen ; another at Neumarkt •, and at the battle of Amberg, where he was severely wounded. This officer was appointed Colonel by brevet the 26th January 1797, and Colonel of his regiment the ISth September 1807; the 25th September 1803 Major General ; the 25th July 1810 Lieutenant General; and subsequently Lieutenant Governor of Tvnemouth and Cliff Fort. 179. Lieut. Gen. George Henry Vansittart. This officer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the late 95th foot, 21st February 1794 ; Colonel in the army 26th January 1797; Major General 25th September lt>03; Colonel 1st garrison battalion 25th February 1805 ; and Lieutenant General 25th July 1810. 172 Lieutenant General.*. This officer has served in Gibraltar, at Toulon, at the Cape, as Brigadier General in the West Indies, and on the Staff in England and Ireland. 180. Lieut. Gen. the Honorable Charles Fitzroy, Colonel ofthe 25th Foot. Appointed Cornet 11th Dragoons 27th August 1779, and in 1 782, Aid-de-Camp to General Richard Whyte at Jersey ; and Lieutenant in a newly raised corps; the 26th March 1783 Captain Lieutenant in the 96th foot, and on the reduction of that regiment at the peace of that year, he was placed on half -pay. In 1 787, he was appointed Captain in the 66th, and the 9th July 1788, Lieutenant and Captain 1st foot guards. He served the campaign of 1793 in Flanders, and was at the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk. The 21st February 1794, he obtained a company with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in his regiment, and in May re turned to England; the 26th January 1797. he received the rank of Colonel, and 1799 commanded the grenadier company of the 1st foot guards, in the expedition of that year to Holland ; he was afterwards appointed Aid-de-Camp to the King ; and 25th Sep tember 1803 Major General. He served on the Staff in the Eastern, and in 1804 was removed to the Western District. The 25th March 1805, he received the Colonelcy of the 25th foot, and the rank of Major General 25th July 1810. 181. Lteut. Gen. Francis Hugonin, Colonel of the 4th Dragoons. Appointed 30th March 1768 Cornet in the 4th dragoons; Lieutenant 30th August 1761 ; Captain 22nd December 1775; Major 27th April 1787; Lieutenant Colonel 24th February 1794; Colonel by brevet 26th January 1797 ; Major General 25th Sep tember 1803; and placed on the Staff of the Southern District where he continued some years ; Lieutenant General 25th July 1810. The 9th November 1808, this officer was appointed Colonel of the 4th dragoons. SIR CHARLES BARON LINSINGEN. 173 182. Lieut. Gen. Frederick Baron Drechsel, Colonel Commandant 7th battalion King's German Legion. This officer was appointed Major General in the British service 14th August 1 804 ; Colonel Commandant 7th battalion King's German Legion, 21st January 1806; Lieutenant General 4th June 181 1, Baron Drechsel served in several campaigns on the continent, previous to entering the British service. 183. Lieut. Gen. Baron Sir Charles Linsingen. Colonel ^Commandant 1st Hussars King's German Legion. This officer has served His Majesty 57 years either in the Hano verian or British service : three times he suffered reduction after the different wars ; he was. present in all the continental wars since the age of 14, including the seven years war, when he was on the Duke of Brunswick's staff; and twice severely wounded. In 1794, although only a Lieutenant Colonel, he commanded a con siderable corps of British and Hanoverian troops : he defended Menin, in Flanders, for eight weeks : he was severely wounded in 1794, and afterwards taken prisoner. When the French, in 1803, occupied Hanover, and the Hanoverian army was disbanded, he declined signing the convention, and was one of the first who came over to this country to re-form his regiment, now the 1 st Hussars ofthe German legion, which served in the Peninsula, and upon every occasion obtained the Duke of Wellington's warmest praise. Lieut. General Linsingen served with all the expeditions sent from this country during the last ten years, except in Spain, where his age and other circumstances did not permit him to' go ; and at present, during the absence of the Duke of Cambridge, he has the command and the immediate superintendance of the whole of the German Legion. The 18th August 1804, he received the rank of Major General in the British service ; and was appointed Colonel Com mandant of the 1st Hussars King's German Legion; the 4th June 1811, he received the rank of Lieutenant General. » 174 Lieutenant . 184. Lieut. Gen. George Rochfort, Major Invalid Battalion Royal Artillery. Appointed 2d Lieutenant in the artillery 1st January 1759 ; 1st Lieutenant 27th February 1761 ; Captain Lieutenant 3d February 1766; Captain, 25th May 1772 ; Major in the army 19th March 1783 ; Major in the Corps of Officers Retired and Seconded upon the invalid battalion of royal artillery 21st November 1783 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1798; Major General 1st January 1805; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. This officer is Chief Fire- master to the laboratory at Woolwich. 185. Lieut. Gen. John Spens. This officer was Captain Lieutenant and Captain in the late 95th foot, 9th April 1780 ; Major in the army 5th April 1783 ; Lieu tenant Colonel 1st March 1794; Colonel 1st January 1798; Major General 1st January 1805 ; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. Lieutenant General Spens has been on half pay from 1783. 186. Lieut. Gen. William Scott. This officer was a Captain in the 17th foot 23d August 1775 j Major on half pay of the 80th foot 25th October 1783 ; Lieutenant Colonel 1st March 1794; Colonel 1st January 1798; Major General 1st January 1805; Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. This officer has been on half pay since 1783. 187. Lieut. Gen. Robert Tipping. This officer was Captain Lieutenant, and Captain in the 72d foot 23d December 1777 ; Major on half pay of the 80th foot 4th April 1784 ; Lieutenant Colonel 1st March 1794 ; Colonel 1st January 1798 ; Major General 1st January 1805 ; Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. This officer has been on half pay since 1783. ALEXANDER TROTTER. 175 188. Lieut. Gen. Archibald Campbell, Lieutenant Governor of Fort Augustus. The 20th July 1773 this officer was appointed to an Ensigncy in the 36th foot ; to a Lieutenantcy in December 1776 ; and to a com pany in the late 74th in December 1777, with which corps he served in America six years and a half. In April 1784 he was promoted to a Majority in his regiment, and from thence removed to the 8th foot ; he received the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel in April 1794 ; as Major and Lieutenant Colonel he served in the West Indies ; the 1st January 1798 he had the brevet of Colonel; in July 1799 was appointed Colonel of the late Bredalbane Fencibles ; and a Brigadier General in the West Indies, where he served four years. The 1st January V805 he received the rank of Major General and was placed on the staff in Ireland, where he commanded the Northern District three years; the 4th June 1811 he was ap pointed Lieutenant General. This officer was personally present at the siege of Penobscot, in North America, 1779, where a British force of 8 or 9C0 men re sisted the joint efforts of a strong American squadron of ships and an army of 7 or 8000 men for 20 days, and ultimately forced them to raise the siege ; also at several actions of smaller note during the American war. He was at the siege of St. Lucie when it sur rendered, in 1796 ; at the taking ofthe enemy's works and strong position in the Island of St. Vincent, 10th June 1796 ; he com manded in St. Vincent in 1799 and 1800 ; and also the colony of Surinam, in South America, until it was delivered up to the Dutch at the peace of Amiens. He has been subsequently appointed Lieutenant Governor of Fort Augustus. 189. Lieut. Gen. Alexander Trotter. This officer was a Lieutenant in the 66th foot 1st June ,1778; Captain in ditto. ; Major 9th February 1785, (on half pay of the late 73d foot); Lieutenant Colonel 1st March 1794; Colonel 1st January 1798; Major General 1st January 1805; Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. This officer has been on half pay since 17*3. 176 Lieutenant «B«nerahj. 190. Lieut. Gen. Francis Fuller, Lieutenant Colonel 59th Foot, and Commander of the Forces in Jamaica. Appointed Ensign and Lieutenant 36th foot in 1778 ; and Cap tain In the 101st foot in 1781. In the latter year he embarked for the East Indies, and served there during the years 1782, 3, and 4. At the battle of Cuddalore in 1783 he commanded the 101st, and in 1785 returned to England, and obtained a Majority in his regiment. From that period till 1794 he was on half pay; the SOth June 1794 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the 59th foot. He served on the continent in 1794 and 1795, and covered the retreat of the division of the army before Nimeguen. At the latter end of 1795 he embarked for the West Indies, where he continued to serve till 1802. At the attack of the enemy's posi tion on the Vigie at St. Vincent's, he commanded the 59th ; he covered the retreat of the army from Mount Young ; and at the attack of the enemy's redoubts on the Vigie, he commanded a column. The 1st Jan. 1798 he received the rank of Colonel. He commanded a brigade at the capture of the islands of St. Bartho lomew, St. Martin's, St. Thomas's, and St. Croix. The 1st Jan. 1805 he was appointed Major General, and in 1806 embarked for the East Indies where he commanded a division of the field army under the presidency of Fort William. The 4th June 1811 he re ceived the rank of Lieutenant General, and is at present com mander of the forces in Jamaica. 191. Lieut. Gen. Sir James Affleck, Bt. Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Light Dragoons. The military career of this officer commenced the 29th February 1776 with an Ensigncy in the 43rd ; in April following he went out to America; and in December 1778 received his Lieutenantcy. He remained in America till the end of 1798, when in conse quence of a severe wound received at Rhode Island, he return ed to England. In the spring of 1779 he again went out to America, and returned with his regiment the same year. The 15th September 1779 he received a company in the 26th, and which he exchanged for the Captain Lieutenantcy of the 23rd light dra- GEORGE VAUGHAN HART. 177 goons the 16th, January 1782, and sailed for India in March fol lowing. In 1786 he returned to England in consequence of ill health ; and in July of that year obtained the Majority of the 19th light dragoons. In the Spring of 1789 he a second time went out to India, and in 1791 again returned from ill health. The 1st March 1794 he received the brevet of Lieutenant Colo nel, and the 25th March 1795 the Lieutenant Colonelcy ofthe 16th light dragoons ; the 1st January 1798 he obtained the b-Yevet of Colonel ; and in May 1803 was appointed Brigadier General in Ireland ; the 1st January 1805 he received the rank of Major Ge neral ; and that of Lieutenant General the 4th June 1811. 192. Lieut. Gen. George Vaughan Hart, M. P. Late Lieutenant Colonel 75th Foot. Appointed Ensign 23rd August 1775 in the 46th foot, and em barked with the regiment for North America ; he was personally present at the attack of Sullivan's Island, Charlestown, South Ca rolina, as Aide-de-Camp to Major General Vaughan ; afterwards at the battles of Flat Bush and Brooklyn, Long Island, New York ; as also at Fort Washington, and Lines on York Island, and Fort Lee, &c. He obtained a Lieutenantcy the 7th June .1777, and was employed as an Assistant Engineer with the advance and rear guards of the army, erecting and destroying bridges ; was per sonally present at the battle of Brandywine, German town, and Monmouth ; and in all the other actions which were fought by the army under the command of Sir William Howe at this period. He next embarked with the regiment for the West Indies ; and on arriving at tit. Lucie was appointed Aide-de-Camp to General Grant, Commander in Chief, and was present along with Brigadier General Medows at the capture of that island. He was appointed Captain Lieutenant 3rd March 1779 ; Captain 10th December 1779 in the 55th. He was Aide-de-Camp to Major General Me dows, present on board Commodore Johnson's ship, in the naval action at Port Praya with the French Admiral Suffrein ; and in two other naval actions, on board Admiral Sir Edward Hughes's ship, the Superb, off Madras, and off Ceylon, with the same French Admiral. The 12th October 1787 he received the Majority of the 75th, and as such served in the East Indies with Sir William Medows ; was part of the time Aide-de-Camp, Military Secre tary, and Deputy Adjutant General, &c. ; was personally present at the siege, assault, and capture of Bangalore ; at the same of the R. Mil. Cat. I. M 178 Lieutenant <©eneral^. Hill Forts, of Nundy Droog, and Savan Droog ; at the siege of Seringapatam, likewise at the second siege of the same fortress, under Lord Cornwallis, and conclusion of that war ; at the siege and capitulation of Pondicherry. The 1st September 1795, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in his regiment ; he continued in the East Indies,- five years, and was afterwards placed on the staff in Ireland ; was present in the East Indies, under the com mand of General Harris, at the battle of Mallvilly ; and in bring ing forward the Bombay army to the last siege, assault and capture of Seringapatam, at which he was personally present. The 1st January 1798 this officer received the brevet of Colonel ; Ist January 1805 was appointed Major General; and the 4th June 1811 Lieutenant General. He is still serving on the staff in Ire land. N. B. A correct memoir of the late General Medows is given in the Royal Military Panorama, Vol. 4, p. 201. 193. Lieut. Gen. John Robinson, ' Colonel ofthe 4th Battalion of the 60th Foot. Appointed Lieutenant in 1774 ; Captain in 1779 ; Major in 1788 in the 1st troop of horse guards ; and Lieutenant Colonel in the Suffolk Fencibles in 1794. He raised the latter corps and served during the whole of the rebellion in Ireland ; he was at the battles of Naas, Vinegar Hill, and Wexford, and with the Marquess Cornwallis when the French troops under General Humbert sur rendered. The 1st January 1798 he obtained the rank of Colonel ; that of Major General 1st January 1S05 ; and that of Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. The 25th February 1805 he was ap pointed Colonel of the 2nd garrison battalion ; and 2d January 1813 Colonel of the 4th battalion 60th foot. As Major General this officer served on the staff in the Eastern district. 194. Lieut. Gen, George Warde. Appointed Cornet in the 14th dragoons 14th March 1774 ; Lieu tenant in 1776; and Captain of a troop in the 9th dragoons in 1778. He served as Aid-de-Camp to the late Right Hon. Gene ral Warde until 1783, and was then removed to the horse grena diers ; on the reduction of the latter he was placed on half-pay. He received in 1790 the rank of Major and Lieutenant Colonel RICHARD BRIGHT. 179 by brevet ; and Colonel 1st January 1798. He was appointed Inspecting Field Officer in the Severn District, and in the South West District, where he continued till June 1 808, when he was placed on the Staff at Bristol. The 1 st January 1 805 he was ap pointed Major General ; and 4th June 1811 Lieutenant General. 195. Lieut. Gen. The hon. Sir Thomas Maitland, Colonel of the \0th Foot, Governor and Commander ofthe Forces at Malta. This officer was a Captain in the 78th foot 14th January 1778 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st March 1794 ; Lieutenant Colonel 62nd foot 6th August following ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1798 ; Brigadier General at St. Domingo 18th April 1797 ; Brigadier General iu the West Indies 1st January 1798 ; Colonel 10th West India regiment 6th September 1798 ; Major General on a particular service, the coast of France, 14th Septem ber 1799; Major General in the army 1st January 1805; Colonel 3rd garrison battalion 25th February 1805; local rank as Lieutenant General in Ceylon 31st July 1806 ; Colonel 4th West India regiment 19th July 1807 ; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. This officer is serving at present as Governor and Com mander-in-Chief at Malta. 196. Lieut. Gen. Richard Bright, Colonel Commandant in the Royal Marines. This officer was a Captain in the Royal Marines 4th October 1775 ; Major in the army 1st March 1794 ; Major and Captain in the marines 16th February 1795 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st March 1794 ; Lieutenant Colonel and Captain in the marines 23rd November 1796 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1798 ; Colonel Commandant in the royal marines 21st December 1803 ; Major General 1st January 1805; and Lieutenant Gene ral 4th June 1811. i80 Lieutenant <©eneral£. 197. Lieut. Gen. James Campbell, Captain " late Independent and Unattached Officers." This officer was a Captain in the corps of unattached officers re ceiving full-pay SOth April 1795 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st March 1794; Colonel 1st January 1798 ; Major Gen. 1st Jan. 1805 ; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. 198. Lieut, Gen. Sir Hildebrand Oakes, Bart. Colonel ofthe 52nd Foot, and Lieutenant General ofthe Ordnance* Appointed Ensign in the 33rd foot 23rd December 1767 ; and Lieutenant in April 1771. In December 1775 he embarked with his regiment for America, forming part of the expedition under Lord Cornwallis. In June 1776 he wa9 present at the attack of Charlestown. The 8th August following he succeeded to a Company, and from this period was on constant service during the whole of the American war ; and in May 1784 he returned to Eng land. In May 1786 he served as Aid-de-Camp to the Hon. Major General Bruce on the Staff in Ireland. The 18th November 1790 he received the brevet of Major; and 13th September 1791 the Majority of the 66th foot. In February 1792 he sailed for the West Indies, and took the command of his regiment at St. Vin cent's, from whence he embarked with it for Gibraltar, where he commanded it until the arrival of the Lieutenant Colonel in Fe bruary 1794, when he returned to England. .The 1st March 1794 he received the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel: in April he accompanied as Aid-de-Camp Sir Charles Stuart, who was ap pointed to command in the Mediterranean, to Corsica ; in May he was appointed Deputy Quarter Master General in that island, and in June following Quarter Master General to the army in the Mediterranean. The 12th September 1795 he succeeded to a Lieutenant Colonelcy in the 66th foot; and the 22nd of the same month was removed to the 26th foot. He continued in his Staff appointment till June 1796, when he returned to England. The 3rd December of the latter year he received the local rank of Colonel in Portugal, and was appointed Quarter Master General to the army, which was soon after sent to that country under Ge neral the Honorable Sir C. Stuart. The 1st January 1798 he SIR GEORGE PREVOST. 181 received the brevet of Colonel ; and in September following that of Brigadier General in the army destined for the attack of Mi norca, where he commanded a brigade, and was personally present at the taking of that island in November following. In March 1799 he returned to England, and in May again went to Minorca. In August 1800 he joined the army in the Mediterranean under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and served during the campaign in Egypt ; he was present in the different actions and wounded in that of the 2 1st March. In March 1802 he returned to England, and in Oc tober was appointed Brigadier General on the Staff at Malta ; he continued in the latter situation till August 1804, when he was recalled to England ; and on the 10th November following ap pointed to the Lieutenant government and command at Ports mouth, in which he remained till June 1805, when he was ap pointed a Commissioner of Military Enquiry. The 23rd October 1803 he received the Colonelcy of the 1st garrison battalion ; the rank of Major General 1st January 18,05, and the Colonelcy of the 3rd West India 24th April 1806. The 1 1th July 1806 he was appointed Major General on the Staff, and Quarter Master Gene ral to the army' in the Mediterranean; in December 1807 he re turned home with the troops under the late Sir John Moore ; in March 1808 he received the command of the garrison at Malta ; 30th April 1810 the local rank of Lieutenant General at Malta; and 4th June 1811 the rank of Lieutenant General in the army. The 25th January 1809 he was appointed Colonel of the 52nd foot. Lieutenant General Oakes has been personally present at three sieges, seven battles, thirteen inferior actions, and in seven teen important services. He is at present Lieutenant General of the Ordnance. 199. Lieut. Gen. Sir George Prevost, Bt. Colonel of the 16th Foot, Captain General and Governor in Chief in North America. Appointed Ensign 60th foot in September 1779 ; Lieutenant 47th in October 1782 ; Captain 60th in June 1783 ; Captain 25th foot in October 1784; and Major 60th foot in November 1790. This officer served as Captain at Gibraltar; and early in 1791 he took the command of the 3rd battalion of the 60th at Antigua. In March 1794 he was promoted to a Lieutenant Colonelcy in the 60th ; and in March 1795 proceeded to Demarara, and from thence to St. Vincent's, at that time attacked by the French. He 1 S2 Lieutenant <©eneraf£, Was actively employed at' St. Vincent's in suppressing the Charib insurrection, and in resisting the French invasion, and at the re duction of the Vigie commanded a column. In October 1795 he was ordered to Dominica to relieve Lieutenant Colonel Madden, 15th foot, in command of the troops ; and in January 1796 he resumed the command of the 3rd battalion 60th regiment at St. Vincent's, where he was twice severely wounded, in- successful attacks made to resist the enemy's progress towards the capital of that colony, after Major General Stewart's defeat at Colonery, and in consequence returned to England, where he was employed as an Inspecting Field Officer until 1797. The 1st January 1796 he obtained the rank of Colonel ; and the same year he proceeded to the West Indies as Brigadier General. In August 1798 he was sent from the command of the troops at Barbadoes to St. Lucie as Commandant, and afterwards appointed Lieutenant Governor. He remained there till the peace of 1802 ; in July of that year arrived in England, and in November following embarked for Do minica as Governor of that colony and Brigadier General on the Staff. He served as second in command at the reduction of St. Lucie and Tobago in 1 803, and at the close of the latter year he Succeeded to the command of the forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands by the death of General Greenfield, and until the arrival of a senior officer. In February 1804 he resisted success fully, with an inconsiderable garrison, an attempt made by the French General of division La Grange and Admiral MLsusy, with a formidable military and naval force, to capture Dominica. The 1st January 1805 he received the rank of Major General, and in that year returned to England and was placed on the home staff, and appointed Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth ; he continued at the latter place till 16th January 1808, when he was directed to proceed to Nova Scotia, with four regiments, having the local rank of Lieutenant General. In December 1808 he sailed from Halifax with 3000 men for the West Indies, wheredie served as second in command at the reduction of Martinico. In April 1809 he returned to Nova Scotia with the same troops, and was subse quently appointed Commander-in-Chief in Canada. The 4th June 1811 he received the rank of Lieutenant General ; and 1 7th Fe bruary 1814 was appointed Colonel of the 16th foot: in the latter year he was recalled from America. SIR J. C. SHERBROOKE. Us 200. Lieut. Gen. William Waller, Late Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd Dragoons. This officer was an Ensign in the 6th foot 16th February 1770; Captain 3rd dragoons 11th June 1777 ; Major in ditto ; Lieute nant Colonel 1st March 1794 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1798 ; Major General 1st January 1805 ; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1811. 201. Lieut. Gen. Mervin Archdall, Late Lieutenant Colonel ofthe 12th Light Dragoons. The 29th June 1782 this officer entered the service as an Ensign in the 12th dragoons; in which regiment he obtained a Lieute nantcy in August 1787; a Company in January 1790; and a Majority in March 1793. In 1793 he went up the Mediterranean with his regiment, and 1st March 1794 was appointed Lieutenant Colonel to it; in 1796 he went to Portugal where he served four years. The 1st January 1798 he had the brevet of Colonel. He served in command of his regiment with the expedition to Egypt ; and was present in the engagement of 13th March 1801 between Aboukir and Alexandria. On 1 8th of the same month, whilst leading a charge against a superior force, he lost his right arm. The 1st January 1805 he was appointed Major General, and with that rank served on the Staff in Ireland. The 4th June 1811 he received the rank of Lieutenant General. 202. Lieut. Gen. Sir J. C. Sherbrooke, K. B. Colonel ofthe 33rd Foot, and Lieut. Gov. of Nova Scotia. This officer was a Captain in the army 6th March 1783 ; Captain S3rd foot, 23rd June 1784 ; Lieutenant Colonel 1st March 1794 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1798 ; Major General 1st Janu ary 1805 ; Colonel of the Sicilian regiment 5th February 1807; Lieutenant General 4th June 1811; and Colonel 33rd foot 1st January 1813. This officer served in the Peninsula; and is at present on the staff as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. 1 84 Lieutenant 4 Lieutenant Colonel ; and the 1st September 179.3 the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the royal garrison battalion. He served at Gib raltar from 1796 to 1798, inclusive, and during part of that period acted as Judge Advocate and Civil Judge. The 1st January 1800 he received the brevet of Colonel ; and the 28th August following he was appointed to command the Royal York Rangers, at that period the African corps, with which he proceeded to Goree : he commanded on the coast of Africa from 1801 to 1804. In the latter year he was attacked by a very superior force, and after maintaining the 'contest till the enemy's number in killed ex ceeded the British force at the commencement of the action, he was obliged to capitulate. On being exchanged, he was appointed to command an expedition against Senegal, but which never sailed. The 25th April 1808 he received the rank of Major General. He was employed in Guernsey as Brigadier and Major General from 25di April 1806, to 25th July 1809, when he was placed on the staff at Gibraltar. He commanded that garrison until the arrival of Major General Campbell. The 4th June 1813, he received the rank of Lieutenant General. 23S. Lieut. Gen. Peter Heron. This officer commenced his military career as an Ensign in the 11th foot, 14th April 1790, and in which he obtained a Lieute nantcy die 2d September 1793. The 13th February 1794 he received a company in the 90th ; the 12th September 179* a 214 Lieutenant jBenevaisS. Majority; and the 28th October 1794 a Lieutenant Colonelcy in the same regiment. The 1st January 1800 he received the brevet of Colonel; the 25th July 1804 that of Brigadier General, and the 25th April 1808 that of, Major General, and that of Lieu tenant General the 4th June 1813. This officer's service abroad has been at Gibraltar 3nd. in Sicily. 239. Lieut. Gen. Robert Lawson, Colonel Commandant in the Royal Artillery. This officer was a gentleman cadet in the Royal Military Aca demy at Woolwich, when he obtained his first commission as Lieutenant Fireworker in the royal regiment of artillery the 25th December 1759. He had embarked for foreign service at the period of the death of George the 2d, but that event occasioning some alterations, he afterwards re-embarked and proceeded to the attack and siege of Belleisle. During the principal part of the peace which followed he was stationed at Gibraltar, and on his return from thence he immediately embarked 1755, for North America with the troops under the Eurl Cornwallis. The 28th May 1765 he obtained his commission as second Lieutenant. The 1st June 1771 that of 1st Lieutenant. He was appointed Deputy Bridge Master to the army under Sir William Howe, and succeeded to the head of that department in 1779." The 7th July 1779 he received his commission as Captain Lieutenant, and the 11th March 1782 that of Captain. He returned from Ame- rica_in 1783, and towards the end of the same year embarked in command of three companies of artillery to be stationed in Jamaica, where he continued three years. In January 1793 he was appoint ed to the command of the first troop of the royal horse artillery then raising, the four eldest. of which he disciplined, and formed their manoeuvres, so as to combine the dragoon with the artillery service. In this corps he became Major 5th December 1793 and Lieutenant Colonel SOth August 1794, and was employed in the command of the artillery in the North East district for a con siderable time. In' January 1800 he was promoted to the rank .of Colonel in the army, and soon afterwards appointed to com mand the artiljery ordered on the expedition to Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, upon which he was honored with a com mission (dated 6th June 1800) as Brigadier General in that army, and in this service he was wounded severely at the battle THOMAS PETER. 215 of Alexandria. At the conclusion of this campaign his and the Chief Engineer's services, are thus mentioned in Sir John now Lord Hutchinson's dispatch. « Brigadier General Lawson who commanded the artillery, and Captain Brice the Chief Engineer, have both great merit in their different departments. The local situation of Egypt presents obstacles of a most serious kind to mili tary operations, on an extended scale. The skill and perseverance of those two officers, however, overcame difficulties, which at first appeared almost insurmountable." The 5th December 1801 he received his commission as Colonel en second, and on the renewal of the war and alarm of intended invasion, it was thought proper to take some measures for the defence of London, and Colonel Lawson was employed in respect to the batteries pro posed for the occasion. After they were arranged and the alarm subsiding, he was ordered to Chatham Lines (where some exten sive new works were carrying on) with the appointment of Bri gadier General on the Staff of Great Britain. The 1st February 1 808 he was made Colonel Commandant in the royal artillery ; the 25th April he obtained the rank of Major General : he remained at. Chatham some years, mostly in command of the gar rison, until he became a Lieutehant General the 24th of June 1813. 240. Lieut. Gen. Thomas Peter, Colonel ofthe Canadian Fencibles. Appointed Ensign 26th foot 16th March 1775 ; Lieutenant in the 64th, 16th June 1776; and Captain 23rd foot 21st March 1778.- He served in each of the above ranks in America ; was at the blockade of Boston, the battles of Brooklyn and Brandywine ; actions of M'Gowan's pass, Fort Washington, and Edgehill ; the siege of Charlestown, and battle of Guilford. The 1 5th January 1794 he was appointed Major in the late 93rd foot; the 1st Sep tember 1794 Lieutenant Colonel; the 25th February 1795 he was removed to the 2d foot ; and the 1st September 1795 to the 23rd foot. The 1 st January 1 800 he received the rank of Colo nel ; 16th July 1803 the Colonelcy of the Canadian Fencibles, and served with that -regiment in the West Jndies. He was appointed Major General 25th April 1 808, and placed on the 2i(j Lieutenant 45eneralj5. Staff in Ireland, and subsequently removed to that of North BrU tain. The 4th June 1813 'he received the rank of Lieutenant General. 241. Lieut. Gen. The Honorable Montague Matthew, M.P. Colonel of the 99th Foot. This officer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel 13th September 1794 in the late 114th foot, raised by his father; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800; Major General 25th April 1808; Colonel of the 99th Foot 6th June 1811 ; and Lieutenant Gener ral 4th June 1813. 242. Lieut. Gen. J. Ramsay, Colonel Commandant of late Chasseurs Britanniques. This officer was a Captain and Lieutenant Colonel in the 3rd guards 16th September 1794; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800 ; Colonel Commandant Chasseurs Britanniques 10th Febru ary 1803 ; Major General 25th April 1808 ; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1813. He served in Flanders. 243. Lieut. Gen. Sir J. D. Broughton, Bt. This officer was Lieutenant Colonel in the late 106th foot, re ceiving full pay, 18th September 1794 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800; Major General 25th April 1808; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1813. 244. Lieut. Gen. William Dyott, Late Lieutenant Colonel ofthe 25th Regiment. Appointed Ensign in the 4th foot 14th March 1781 ; Lieutenant 9th May 1782; Adjutant February 1785; and served six years in RONALD CRAWFURD FERGUSON, ' S17 North America. In April 1793 he received a Company in the 4th foot, and in June was appointed Brigade Major under Major General Hotham at Plymouth. The 19th May 'i794 he received the Majority of the 103rd foot, which corps he assisted in raising and forming ; and the Lieutenant Colonelcy 1 8th February ; in May 1795 Brigade Major to the Western District. Lieutenant Colonel Dyott, in consequence of the men of the 103rd being drafted, exchanged in September 1795 into the 28th ; and 11th November into the 2.5th foot. With the latter regiment he served in the West Indies the campaign of 1796, and at its con clusion returned to England. In 1799 he was appointed Assist ant Adjutant General to the South West District, which situation he held till 1st January 1800, when he received the brevet of Colonel. In 1801 he, served in Egypt until the surrender of Alex andria, when he was ordered to Gibraltar; in 1801 he was ap pointed Aid-de-Camp to the King; in 1803 Brigadier General on the Windward Island Staff; but the destination of his regiment being afterwards changed to Ireland, he was removed as Brigadier General to the Staff of that country ; and in 1804 to the Staff of England. The 25th April 1808 he was appointed Major General; and in December to the Staff of the army in Spain, in which situa tion he did not serve owing to the return. of Sir John Moore's army ; he was next placed on the Staff of the expedition to Wal cheren, and in October was sent home with dispatches by Lieute nant General Don. The 4th June 1813 he received the rank of Lieutenant General. 245. Lieut. Gen. Sir Ronald Crawfurd Ferguson, Colonel of the Sicilian Regiment. This officer entered the army in 1790 as an Ensign in the 53rd regiment of foot ; and the following year visited the Court of Ber lin, for the purpose of acquiring a perfect knowledge of his pro fession. In 1791 he was promoted to a Lieutenantcy, and in 1793 to a Company in the 53rd foot, and accompanied his regi ment to Flanders. Early in that year the troops were landed at Antwerp, and with the 14th and 87th regiments formed into a brigade, commanded by the late Sir Ralph Abercrombie. This brigade served at Valenciennes, Dunkirk, &c. and, after the re treat from the latter place, the 53rd regiment was thrown into Nieuport. Captain Ferguson received in this campaign a severe wound in the knee. cis Lieutenant «£>eneral£. In 1794 this officer was promoted to a Majority in the 84th foot ; and upon a second battalion being raised he was appointed, in the same year, Lieutenant Colonel of the same. The next ser vice in which he was employed was the expedition under Lieute nant General Sir Alured Clarke, Major General Craig, and Ad miral Elphinstone, destined for the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope, at that time in the possession of the Dutch. Lieutenant Colonel Ferguson's regiment was attached to the division under the former officer. He commanded the flank corps at the capture of this colony, and likewise at the capture of the Dutch fleet in Saldannah Bay. The 1st January 1800 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and appointed- Lieutenant Colonel in the 31st foot. The same year he was employed in the expedition under Brigadier General the Honorable Thomas Maitland, which, with some others, was destined to attack various posts on the v French coast, and it was attended with partial success. This expedition was afterwards united to that under the late Lieutenant General Sir James Pul- teney, for the taking of Ferrol. Colonel Ferguson, with other officers, having expressed an opinion of the impossibility of suc cess attending the armament, from the manner in which different arrangements were carried into execution, they returned to Eng land. In 1804 this officer received the rank of Brigadier General, and the command of the York District. The 30th October 1805 he received the rank of Major General, and was appointed to the command of the Highland brigade, consisting of the 7 1st, 72nd, and 93rd regiments, in the expedition under Major General Sir David Baird, for the re-capture of the Cape of GOod Hope. On 4th February 1 806 the squadron under Sir Home Popham's com mand arrived" off the Cape ; and on the 6th a landing was effected, Brigadier General Ferguson having the command of the landing party, which was composed of his brigade. Of this operation Sir David Baird made the following observation in his dispatch, dated Cape Town, 13th January 1806 : — " The surf having considerably abated the ensuing morning, I determined, in concurrence with Sir Home Popham, to make an effort to get the troops on shore ; and accordingly the Highland brigade, composed of the 71st, 72nd, and 93rd regiments, effected that object, under the command of Brigadier General Ferguson. The shore had been previously very closely inspected by the Brigadier, and by his spirited exertions and example our efforts were crowned with success." On 8th January a severe action took place, in which the enemy lost about 700, and His Majesty's troops about 240 men in killed and wound ed. The enemy, whose force nearly amounted to 4000 men, RONALD CRAWFURD FERGUSON. 219 made 'a vigorous resistance, and kept up a hot fire of grape and musketry ; but the British troops penetrated the line with fixed bayonets, and, after the first discharge of musketry, succeeded in putting the enemy to the route in every direction. A capitulation was signed on the 10th, by which the Cape Town and its depen.- dencies were surrendered to His Majesty's arms. General Jansen, who commanded the enemy's troops, had retired with the remain der of his force, amounting to about 1800 or 2000 men, into the interior of the country. After the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, Brigadier General Ferguson was seized with a very serious liver complaint, which obliged him to return to this country ; and he continued unem ployed in a military capacity till 1808, when, with the rank of Major General, he was appointed to the command of a brigade under Sir Arthur Wellesley. In the battles of Rolica and Vimiera he was actively engaged. He returned with Sir A. Wellesley and other officers to England, after the convention of Cintra, and was examined by the Court of Inquiry appointed on that business. He was presented with an honorary medal by His Majesty for his conduct, and included in a vote of thanks which the Houses' of Parliament bestowed upon the officers engaged in the battle of Vimiera. The following is the reply he delivered in his place as a Member of Parliament to the vote of thanks : " Mr. Speaker, — I beg leave to return you my warmest acknow ledgments for the high and distinguished honor which this House has conferred on me. Having ever considered that the greatest reward which a soldier can attain is the approbation of his country, the thanks of this' House must be received by me with gratitude and pride. I am well aware, however, that I owe not this honor to my own merit, but to my singular good fortune in commanding such officers and such men as were placed under my immediate orders, and being myself under the guidance of a General whose talents, decision, and bravery, justly secured to him the confidence of every man in his army." The 25th January 1809 he was appointed Colonel of the Sici lian regiment; and the same year he received a command in the army under Sir David Baird, but he did not arrive at Coruna until the British troops quitted that place, and he consequently returned to this country. The following year he was appointed second in command at Cadiz. This situation he held for a few months ; but the return of his liver complaint rendered it neces sary for him to resign his command and repair to England. The 4th June 1813 he received the rank of Lieutenant General; smd 220 , Lieutenant General.*. in 1814 he was appointed second in command of the troops in Holland. N. B. A memoir of this officer is given in the Royal Military Panorama, vol. ii. p. 395. 246. Lieut. Gen. Andrew Gammell, Late Captain in 1st Foot Guards. Appointed Lieutenant and Captain in the 81st foot in 1793 J Major in the 104th in 1794 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the 104th in 1795; and on that corps being drafted into the 39th, he was ap pointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Cambrian Fencibles ; Colonel by brevet 1st January 1800; Captain and Lieutenant Colonel 1st guards 20th August 1803; Major General 25th April 1808; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1813. This officer has served on the Staff as Brigadier General in England and Ireland. 247. Lieut. Gen. Robert Macfarlane, Late Lieutenant Colonel 72nd Foot. This officer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the late 113th foot, receiving full pay, 19th September 1794; Lieutenant Colonel 72nd foot 13th September 1798; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800; Brigadier General 18th May 1805; Major General 25th April 1808; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1813. This officer is serving on the Staff in Sicily, as second in com mand under Lord William Bentinck. 248. Lieut. Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty, K. B. Colonel of the 78th Foot. In August 1776, this officer entered the service as a volunteer in the 45th foot, then with the army under the late General Sir William Howe in North America. He served thecampaigns of 1776, 1777, and 1778, and was present at many of the principal actions, particularly at Brooklyn and White Plains. The 11th January 1777 he received an Ensigncy in the 45th; and the 15th SIR SAMUEL AUCHMUTY. 221 August 1778 a Lieutenantcy. In November 1778 he returned with the 45th to England, and the 21st February 1783 exchanged into the 52nd, and accompanied that regiment to India ; the 8th November 1788 he received a company in the 75th. He served in India from 1783 to 1796, principally in Staff situations; as Adjutant to the 52nd; Major of Brigade; Military Secretary to Sir Robert Abercromby ; Deputy Quarter Master General to the King's troops in India; and afterwards Adjutant General. He served two campaigns on the Malabar coast, and in Mysore; and one campaign against the Rohillas, under Sir Robert Abercromby; he was also at the first siege of Seringapatam under Lord Corn wallis. The SOth April 1794, he had received the brevet of Majorj the 22nd September 1794 that of Lieutenant Colonel; and the 2nd September 1795, the Majority of the 75th foot. Sir Samuel returned to England in 1797, the 1st January 1800 he received the brevet of Colonel and the 25th September 1800, was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 10th. The same year he was appointed to the command of a corps to be taken from the Gape of Good Hope, consisting of the 61st regiment, a troop of cavalry, and a company of artillery. It was destined to attack the French posts, at Cozier and Suez in the Red Sea, and was after wards to be reinforced from India. In November 1 800 he sailed from England, and the beginning of 1801 from the Cape with the troops under his orders ; he found General Baird with the Indian army at Judda, and vyas appointed Adjutant General of it. He landed at Cozier with it, and crossed the desert to Upper Egypt, and from thence down the Nile to Alexandria ; he was present at the surrender of the latter, and was afterwards appointed Adjutant General of Egypt, where he remained till the middle of 1802, when he returned to England. In August 1803 he was appointed Commandant of the Isle of Thanet, and continued in that command as Colonel and Brigadier General till the middle of 1806, when he was appointed Colonel of the 103rd foot the 25th -June, and to serve as Brigadier General in South America, where he arrived at the end of that year, and assumed the command of die troops. The beginning of 1807 he landed near Monte Video, attacked and defeated the enemy, repulsed them again in a general sortie from the town, and took that fortress by. assault. He continued in com mand in South America, till the arrival of Lieutenant General Whitelocke, and was present at the attack on Buenos Ayres. In October 1807 he returned to England ; and the 25th August 1808 he received the rank of Major General. Sir Samuel Auchmuty embarked for Madras the 11th of May 1810, being appointed Commander in Chief of the forces under the Presidency of Fort St. George ; he arrived there the 27th of 232 Lieutenant Generate. September of that year. He sailed from Madras the 30th of April 1811, in command of an expedition against the Island of Java; landed there the 4th of August, took Batavia on the 8th of that month, and assaulted and carried the enemy's works at Cornells, on the 28th. He again defeated the enemy on the 18th of September near Samarang, and on the 18th the Island surrendered by capitu lation. He left Java on the 8th of October 1811, and landed at Cannanore on the Malabar coast, on the 16th of November, from whence he proceeded by land to Madras. On the 6th of March 1813, he embarked at Madras for England, and landed at Deal, the 16th of August of that year. The 4th June 1813, Sir Samuel received the rank of Lieutenant General. 249. Lieut. Gen. John G. Crosbie. This officer was a Captain in the 67th foot 1st May 1783; Lieutenant Colonel in the 22nd foot 28th September 1794; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800; Major General 25th April 1808 ; and Lieutenant General 4di June 1813. 250. Lieut. Gen. Edward Stack. This officer was Lieutenant Golonel in the late Irish brigade 1st October 1-794; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800; Major General 25th April 180S; and Lieutenant General 4th June 181.3. 251. Lieut. Gen. the Hon. J. Brodrick. The 1st November 1782 this officer received an Ensigncy in the 1st foot guards ; in which he was appointed Lieutenant with the rank of Captain in 1789. In September 1793 he joined the guards at ,the siege of Dunkirk, and did duty with them till the 14th May 1794, when he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to Major General Sir R. Abercrombie, and as such was present in die actions of 1 7th and 18th May; at that of Boxtel, and at the taking of Fort St. Andre, The 4th November 1794 he succeeded to a company in his regiment, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and returned to .England; in April 1799 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel SIR HENRY WARDE. 213 Commandant of the 2nd battalion Albanians, intended to be raised under the orders of the late Major General Villettes. The plan failing from the reluctance of the Albanians to enlist under the terms offered, the levy was stopped in November 1 800, and in con sequence this officer was placed on half-pay. About this period he was appointed Brigadier General in Minorca, and on General Fox's proceeding to Malta as Commander of the Forces in 1801, he remained in command of the troops and in the execution of the civil duties, till the arrival of Major General Ciephane, after the signature of the preliminaries of peace, when he obtained leave to return to England ; the 1st January 1801 he received the brevet of Colonel. On the renewal of war in 1803, he was appointed Colonel on the Staff, with the command of Dover Castle, and the forts be tween Dover and Sandwich. The same year he was appointed Colonel Commandant of the 11th battalion of reserve; inNovember 1803 he was appointed Brigadier General in Guernsey, and in September 1804 Brigadier General in Malta. When Sir James Craig's expedition reached that place, Brigadier General Brodrick was appointed to command the reserve of his army, and afterwards to that of the citadel of Messina. In September 1805 he returned to England, and on the reduction of the garrison battalions, was placed on half-pay; the 25th April 1808 he received the rank of Major General, and in August was placed on the Staff of the army in Spain and Portugal, and was sent on a mission to the Northern army of Spain ; in November he was appointed to the command of the troops in Coruna, where he remained till the return of the British army in 1 809. In the latter year he was appointed to the command of the royal regiment of Malta; and the 4th June 18 IS, he received the rank of Lieutenant General. 252, Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Warde, Colonel of the 68th Foot. In March 1783 this officer was appointed Ensign in the IstTegiment of guards; in 1792 Lieutenant and Captain; in 1793 he landed in Holland with the first troops, and was wounded in storming the outworks at the siege of Valenciennes. He came home, and re turned when recovered early in July 1794, and acted as Adjutant to the 3rd battalion of guards ; he returned in November on being promoted to a company, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He served in the expedition to Ostend, as Lieutenant Colonel with «-i Lieutenant (fBeneraf.*. Sir R„ Abercromby at the Helder, and was present in all the scions; the 1st January 1801 he received the brevet of Colonel, and was appointed Brigadier General in 1804, he served under Lord Cathcart at Copenhagen in 1807, and was appointed Major General the 25th April 180S; he commanded the 1st brigade of guards, in the force under Sir David Baird sent to Coruna in 1808, and returned after that battle. He went out to India in 1809, and as second in command under Lieutenant General Aber cromby to the Mauritius in 1810, where he remained in command of the troops after the capture; he was afterwards acting Governor for three months; he was subsequently appointed to the command' ofthe forces ; and the 1st January 1813, Colonel of the 68th foot; and Lieutenant General the 4th June 1813. •253. Lieut. Gen. James Durham. This officer was appointed Cornet in the 2nd dragoon guards the 22nd June 1769; Lieutenant in March 1775; and Captain in March 1779. In 1783 he was placed on half pay of the late 82nd foot, and remained so till 1793, when he was appointed Lieuten* ant in the late 94th. Whilst on half pay he served as Aid-de- Camp to the Marquess of Townsend. The 1st September 1794 he received the brevet of Major ; and having raised the Fifeshire Fencibles, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel to that corps the 22nd October 1794. In April 1803 he was again placed on half pay ; the 1st January 1801 Was appointed Colonel by brevet ; Col onel of the 6th garrison battalion in January 1803, and reduced in February 1805. From March 1804 to December 1808 he served as Brigadier and Major General in Ireland. The 25th April 1808 he received the rank of Major General, and in December was placed on the Staff in Scotland ; the 4th June 1813 he obtained die rank of Lieutenant General. 254. Lieut. Gen. the Honorable D. Leslie, Late Lieutenant Colonel in the 48th foot. Appointed Ensign 59th foot 1st August 1775; Lieutenant in 1777 ; and Captain 1st May 1 780. In September 1782 he accom panied his regiment to the relief of Gibraltar, where he remained nearly ten years. In 1781 he was appointed Aid-de-Camp t» SIR JAMES LE1TII. 225 Lieutenant General Leslie, in which situation he continued till that officer's death in 1794. The 1st Marc-h in the latter year he received the brevet of Major ; and early in 1795 was appointed Aid-de-Camp to General Lord Adam Gordon, and 25th October of that year Lieutenant Colonel of the Loyal Tay Fencible In fantry. In 1796 he proceeded with his regiment to Ireland, and was in that country during the whole of the rebellion, and until December 1801, when the regiment returned to Scotland and was disbanded' 28th June 1802. The 1st January 1801 he had the brevet of Colonel ; and 9th July 1803 the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 48th foot. He served as Brigadier General on the Irish Staff from the 29th February 1804 to the 25th June 1806, when he was removed to the Staff of North Britain, where he continued after being appointed Major General 25th April 1808. The 4th June 1813 he received the rank of Lieutenant General. 255. Lieut. Gen, Sir James Leith, K. B. Col. ofthe 4th W. India Regt. and Com. in Chief in the W. Indies. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant 21st foot 13th April 1779 ; Lieuten ant 14th July 1781 ; Captain 23rd November 17S2 ; and removed to the 50th foot in July 1784. As Captain this officer served in the West Indies, at Gibraltar, and Toulon. The 1st March 1794 he received a Majority in the 50th ; 25th October following a Lieutenant Colonelcy in the Princess of Wales's Fencibles, and served with that regiment during the Irish rebellion. The 1st January 1801 he had the brevet of Colonel; and the 21st July 1803 was appointed to the 13th garrison battalion ; the 9th April 1804 Brigadier General; and the 25th April 1808 Major Gen eral. He commanded in the barracks of Dublin, and the batteries and 'towers from thence to Bray, and the troops at Wicklow, Dub lin, and Kildare. He was placed on the Staff of the army in Spain and Portugal ; and employed by permission, and with the appro bation of the Commander in Chief, on a military mission to the Northern Provinces of Spain. He served with the Spanish Patriots till the retreat of the British, when he commanded a brigade. He was consulted by the Spanish General, and recommended the re treat in 1808 of 5000 Spaniards from Bilboa, which, being separ ated from the main body of the Galician army, Marshal Ney at tempted to cut off, with the whole centre of the French army, but was kept in check by this corps for five hours, when it retired without any material loss, and with all its artillery. This officer R. Mil. Cal. I. P 226 Lieutenant General.?. repulsed with his brigade a smart attack on the British position on the 7th January 1809, and served in the action at Coruna. He was afterwards placed on the Staff in Great Britain ; from which he was removed to that of the expedition to Walcheren. He was^ employed during the siege of Flushing ; and subsequently, when the troops returned from the Upper Scheldt, was ordered to pro ceed to England in command of 8 regiments. He suffered severely from the Walcheren fever. The 10th .July 1811 he received the Colonelcy of the 4th West India regiment, and the 6th September following the local rank of Lieutenant General in Spain and Port ugal. He was employed under Lord Wellington, and present in some of the principal occurrences in the Peninsula, and at the siege of St. Sebastian was very severely wounded. The 4th June 1813 he received the rank of Lieutenant General in the army, and in 1814 was appointed Commander in Chief of the forces in the Weft Indies, where he is now serving. 256. Lieut. Gen. John Manners Kerr, Colonel ofthe late 5th Royal Veteran Battalion. Appointed Ensign 111th foot Slst February 1785, which he joined at Gibraltar, and there remained till the 24th September 1787, when he was promoted to a Lieutenantcy in the 4th battalion 6'Oth foot ; and the 10th November 1790 to a Company. He served with his regiment in Barbadoes until the commencement of the war in 1793, when he proceeded with it to the attack of Tobago. He remained there in garrison, with the exception of a short time at St. Vincent's, until appointed Major 29th June 179.4. He contin ued in the West Indies until May 1795. The 25th October 1794 he received the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the army, and was ap pointed Colonel Commandant of the Northampton Fencibles, and in March 1798 exchanged into the 62nd foot. The 1st January 1801 he was appointed Colonel in the army, and Brigadier General in the West Indies 5th February following. He commanded the Islands of Grenada, Dominique, Barbadoes, and St. Vincent's until June 1804, when he returned to England on account of ill health. In September of the latter year he was placed on the Staff of the North West District, and had the command of the Volunteer force of Manchester and its neighbourhood : he continued there till June 1806, and in July was appointed to the Staff in Ireland. The 25th April 1808 he received the rank of Major General, and on the 26th September of that year he was removed from the Irish Staff to that THOMAS SCOTT. S27 of Colchester and Woodbridge ; and in June 1809 to the Sussex District. The 25th June 1 8 10 he was appointed Colonel of the 5th Royal Veteran Battalion ; and the 4th June 1813 Lieutenant Gen eral. 257. Lieut. Gen. Thomas Scott, Late Lieut. Col. 94th foot. This officer was appointed to an Ensigncy in the 24th foot the SOth May 1761 ; he joined in Germany, and served the whole of the campaign of 1762, carried the colors at the action of Willim- stall or Grabiniton, and also at the attack of the British picquets on the Fulda, under the command of Major Hume of the 25th regi ment, which the 24th supported. After the war he served at Gi braltar for nearly 6 years, with the exception of one year's leave of absence. The 7th June 1765 he was appointed Lieutenant ; he accompanied the regiment to America in the spring of 1776, and served that campaign and the following one under General Bur goyne, with a company of Marksmen attached to a large body of Indians, during which there was a variety of very fatiguing and hard service, and this officer was constantly employed on the out post duty, which was done so much to the satisfaction and appro bation of his commanding officer Brigadier General Fraser, that he was twice thanked in public orders ; he was in the action of Free man's Farm, where a very considerable loss was sustained in offi cers and men ; was soon after sent in disguise through the enemy's country with dispatches from General Burgoyne to Sir Harry Clin ton, and for which purpose he was particularly selected out by Brigadier General Fraser, and which he effected with much diffi culty and great personal risk of being taken and hanged as a spy, having at the same time suffered the extreme of hunger and cold. The 14th July 1777 he was appointed Captain Lieutenant ; the 8th October 1777 Captain in the 53rd regiment, then in Canada, with which he served the remaining part of the war ; he was upon two expeditions from Canada to the Mohawk river under the command of Sir John Johnston, which were attended with great fatigue, and much harassed by the enemy, for which service he was selected by Sir Frederick Haldimand. He commanded the Fort and Island of Machilmackinac with its extensive dependen cies for a year, having been sent there for the purpose of carrying into effect reforms ordered to be made by government, as well as to correct abuses which had crept into the Indian department, 223 Lieutenant <©encrate. which he did to the entire satisfaction of Lord Dorchester, at that time commanding in Canada, and to the company of merchants trading to that country. He returned to Europe 12 months be fore his regiment in 1788. In 1791 he served six months during the Spanish armament with a detachment of the 53rd regiment on board his Majesty's ship Hannibal, commanded by Sir John Col- poys; accompanied the regiment to the continent in the spring of 1793 under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, was in the affair at Famars, served the whole of the siege of Valenciennes and of Dunkirk, and was in the whole of that day's attack where the Austrian General D'Alton was killed ; also at the siege of Nieuport, where he was promoted to the rank of Major for his exertions in the defence thereof (13th November 1793) ; he was in the action of the 24th of May, and wa-s wounded that day in the" inside ofthe right thigh, by a musket ball. The 27th October 1794 he was appointed to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of tlie 94th (Scotch brigade) regiment by purchase, and went with it to Gibraltar in 1795, to the Cape of Good Hope in 1796, where he was Deputy Adjutant General to the forces, which situation he relinquished in order to go with his regiment to India in 179S. He served the whole of the campaign of 1799, in the Mysore country, commanded a native brigade, was at the siege and taking of Seringapatam, and in consequence of ill health returned to Europe in 1800. The 1st January 1801 he was appointed Colonel by brevet ; in September 1802 Inspecting Field Officer of the Edinburgh recruiting district ; in 1803 Deputy Inspector General of the Recruiting Service in North Britain ; in August 1804 Brigadier General ; 25th April 1808 Major General on the staff of North Britain, and served as such until 4th June 1813, when he was promoted to Lieutenant General, in conse quence of which his appointment on the staff ceased, 258. Lieut. Gen. William Robertson. Appointed Ensign 63rd foot 25th November 1775 ; and Lieute nant 55th 18th December 1777. In May 1777 he embarked for New York ; he accompanied the expedition up the North River towards Esopus ; in the spring of 1778 he joined the 55th foot at Philadelphia and went with that regiment to the Jerseys ; he was at the battle of Monmouth. He afterwards proceeded to the West Indies and landed at St. Lucie, and was engaged in the operations at the Vigie. The 12th July 17 SO he obtained a company in the 77th, and in April 1781 returned to England. In 1783 he was .ordered to India, but did not proceed on account of a mutiny in the SIR T. H. TURNER. 229 regiment. On the recommencement of war in l793"he assisted in> raising and organizing two battalions of Highlanders styled " Breadalbane Fencibles," and was appointed to a Majority in that corps. The 30th October 1794 he had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel ; and Colonel in the Perth Highland Fencibles, a corps raised by himself. He served in Ireland and was the inventor of portable bridges for flying artillery, which he practised in that country in 1797. In the Spring of 1798 he furnished the British Government with authentic information of the rebellion in Ireland, and volunteered to go out with small detachments from Dublin. The 1st January 1801 he received the rank of Colonel in the army. After the reduction of the Perth Fencibles in 1799, this officer fur- itished Government with a printed report on the internal and ex ternal state of Ireland, applicable to its attack and defence at all times, and which has been considerably acted upon since that pe riod. In 1800 he accompanied the expedition to Spain and Portu gal on the staff, and early in 1804 was appointed Brigadier Gene ral on the staff of Great Britain. The 25th -April 1808 he re ceived the rank of Major General ; and the 4th June 1813 that of Lieutenant General. 259. Lieut. Gen. Matthew Baillie. This officer was Lieutenant Colonel in the late 104th foot, re ceiving full pay, 7th November 1794 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800 ; Major General, 25th April 1808 ; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1813. 260. Lieut. Gen. Sir T. H. Turner, Kt, Colonel ofthe 19th Foot, and Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. Appointed Ensign 3rd guards 20th February 1782, and Lieute nant 13th October 1789. He served in the expedition to Flanders in 1 793, and was present at the battles of St. Amand, and Famars ;_ siege of Valenciennes ; action at Lincelles ; investment of Dun kirk ; actions at Lannoi and Vaux ; battle at Cateau ; actions at Basieu, Mouvaix and Templeuve ; battle of Tournay and capture of Fort St. Andre. The 12th November 1794 he was promoted to a company with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and the 1st January 1801 obtained the brevet of Colonel. He served in the 230 Lieutenant oBeneral?. expedition to Egypt, and was in the battles of the 8th, ISth, and 21st March ; at the action on the West side of Alexandria, and after the taking of that place he brought home the Egyptian anti quities, now in the British Museum, surrendered by the 16th arti cle ofthe capitulation. The 11th February 1804 he had the rank of Brigadier General. The 24th June 1807 he embarked for South America and returned to England in 1808. The 25th April 1808 he was appointed Major General, and the 4th June 1813 Lieutenant General. In 1808 he was placed on the staff of the home district ; he was subsequently appointed Deputy Secre tary under the Right Honorable Colonel M'Mahon, at Carlton House, and in 1814 Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. The 27th April 1811 he received the Colonelcy of the 19th foot. 261. Lieut. Gen. Christopher Chowne, Colonel of the 76th Foot. This officer was Lieutenant Colonel in the late 99th foot, receiv ing full pay, 15th November 1794 ; Lieutenant Colonel 44th foot 24th January 1799 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800; Brigadier General 25th March 1805, in the forces under Sij James Craig ; Major General 25th April 1808 ; Lieutenant Gene ral 4th June 1813; and Colonel of ,the 76th foot 17th February 1814. 262. Lieut. Gen. William Simson. This officer was a Lieutenant Colonel on half pay 15th November 1794; Colonel in the army 1st January 1800; Major General 25th April 1808 ; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1813. 263. Lieut. Gen. The Hon. W. Mordaunt Maitland. Appointed Cornet 10th dragoons in 1779 ; Lieutenant in 1781 ; Captain 95th foot in 1783, and reduced the same year ; Captain in the 72d in 1789. This officer served in India in 1790 and 1791, during which period he was at the storming of Tippoo's lines, antuxalf. the 25th July 1801 this officer was on half pay ;' he was then ap* pointed to the Banffshire Fencibles, which he jencrahi. 339. Lieut. Gen. Walter Ker, Lieutenant Colonel late Loyal British Fencible Infantry. This officer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the loyal British Fencible Infantry 2d December 1 795 ; Colonel in the army 25th September 1803; Major General 25th July 1810; and Lieute nant General 4th June 1814, 340. Lieut. Gen. Sir Alexander Campbell, Colonel of the York Light Infantry. Volunteers. This officer, after passing through the ranks of Ensign, Lieutenant, Captain, and Major, w,is appointed Lieutenant Colonel 74th foot 4th December 1795 ; Colonel in the army 25th September 1803 ; Colonel York Light Infantry Volunteers 27th January 1809 ; Major General 25th July 1810; Lieutenant General and Com mander of the forces in the Isles of France and Bourbon 9th March 1812, where he is still serving; he received the rank of Lieutenant General in the army 4th June 1814. Lieutenant General Camp bell has also served at Gibraltar, in Spain and Portugal. 341. Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Frederick Campbell, Late 3rd~Major 1st Foot Guards. Entered the army as an Ensign in the 1st foot guards the 20th September 1786 ; in February 1793 he went to Holland; the 25th April he was promoted to a Lieutenantcy with the rank of Captain; and in May he returned to England. In June 1794 he again went to the Continent, and being appointed to a Staff situation he re turned to England in December ; he was present at the action of Boxtel; the 6th April 1796 he received his. company with the rank of Lieutenant Coionel . the 25th September 1803 he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to the King, and had the brevet of Colonel. In December 1808 he went to Portugal as Brigadier General, with the command of the 2nd brigade of guards, and in October 180» returned in consequence of a wound in the face received at the LORD STEWART. 301 battle 6f Talavera.' He was also present at "the passage of the Douro. The 25th July 1810 he received the rank of Major General; and that of Lieutenant General the 4th June 1814; the 2nd October 1813, he was promoted to be 3rd Major in.the 1st foot guards. This officer is a knight commander of the military order of the Bath. 342. Lieut. Gen. W. Burnett. This officer had the rank of Captain 16th December 1782 ; was appointed to a company in the 14th foot 21st January 1784; Lieutenant Colonel 14th foot 9th November 1796 ; and subse quently placed on half-pay, as Lieutenant Colonel of Walford's York Hussars ; Colonel in the army 25th September 1803 ; and Aid-de-Camp to the King; Major General 25th July 1810 ; and Lieutenant General 4th June 1814. 343. Lieut. Gen. Charles W. Lord Stewart, K.B., Lieutenant Colonel 18th Hussars. This officer received his first commission, an Ensigncy, before the age of fifteen 3rd April 1791 in the 108th regiment, in which he was appointed to a Lieutenantcy 6th January 1793 ; and to a com pany 7th May 1794. He joined Lord Moira's expedition, and went as Assistant Deputy Quarter Master General to the forces that landed at Isle Dieu under General Doyle; on the return of this force, he was attached to Colonel Charles Craufurd' s mission to the Austrian armies in 1795 and 1796, and was wounded at the battle of Donauwert by a musquet ball, that entered the face under the eye, went through the nose, and was extracted on the opposite side ; it was received whilst charging with some heavy Austrian cavalry that were driven back by the French hussars. On his re turn to England, he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to Lord Camden,. then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; he succeeded to the Majority of the late 106th foot on the 3 1st July 1795 ; he was appointed to the 5th dragoons 4th August 1796 ; and appointed 1st January 1797 to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the latter regiment ; he served in this regiment during the rebellion in Ireland, and until it was dis banded, and was then 1st January 1797, attached to the 18th light dragoons, at that time a skeleton ; the regiment was sent to Holland' 302 Lieutenant <0eneral.ii. under Sir Ralph Abercrombie in 1799, and in that service this officer was again wounded in the head, at the outposts near Scha-* genbrug on the 10th October, by a musquet ball ; another ball struck the glass at his breast, which it broke, and was stopped by the brass tubes of the glass, or it would have proved fatal ; this regiment still under his command has since been made a regiment of hussars. On the 25th September 1803 he received the rank of Colonel ; and was next appointed King's Aid-de-Camp, and soon afterwards to the civil situation of under Secretary of State in the War Department. He left this situation to assume the command of a brigade of hussars, under Sir John Moore in Portugal ; on the advance of that army into Spain, he covered the march of Sir John Hope's division, which proceeded by the Escorial to Sala manca ; during this march he surprised at Rueda a French post, and took the whole escort of a valuable convoy of cotton, and on the entrance into Valladolid, he took a French Major of cavalry, proceeding with an escort to join his regiment. During the retreat of that army to Coruna he attacked, at the head of the picquets of the 18th and 3rd German light dragoons, a very superior body of cavalry, composed of Buonaparte's guards, the corps of the greatest character in his army ; in which affair he charged, and completely overthrew them, taking prisoners their Colonel, General Lefevre, with 70 officers and men. In this charge his sword was struck out of his hand by a musquet ball, which was immediately replaced by that of Lieutenant Colonel Otway, with which he continued the contest. He was afterwards in 1809 appointed Adjutant General to the army under Sir Arthur Wellesley. On the 5th February 1810 he received the thanks of the House of Commons. The following is an extract from the Votes : — « Brigadier General the Honorable Charles Stewart being come to the House, Mr. Speaker acquainted him that the House had upon Thursday last resolved that the Thanks of this House be given to him for his distinguished exertions on the 27th and 28th of July last, in the memorable battle of Talavera, which terminated in the signal defeat of the forces of the enemy. And Mr. Speaker gave him the thanks of the House accordingly as followeth : viz. " Brigadier General Charles Stewart, "Amongst the gallant Officers, to whom this House has declared its gratitude for their distinguished services in Spain, your name has the honor to stand enrolled. « During the progress of the two last campaigns in Spain and LORD STEWART. 303. Portugal, whoever has turned His eyes towards the bold and perilous operations of our armies in Leon and Galicia ; whoever has contemplated the brilliant passage of the British troops across the Douro, an exploit which struck the enemy himself with ad miration as well as dismay; must have marked throughout those memorable atchievements, that spirit of energy and enter- prize, with which you have rapidly advanced in the career of military fame, and by which you have now fixed your name for ever in the annals of your country, as a chief sharer in those immortal laurels won by British fortitude and valor in the glo-< rious and hard fought battles of Talavera. « Upon the great Commander, under whom it was there your pride and felicity to serve, his Sovereign, this House, and the voice of an applauding Empire, have conferred those signal tes timonies of honor and gratitude, which posterity will seal with its undoubting approbation. And it is no mean part of the merits for which you are to be this day crowned with our thanks that you were chosen by such a Commander to be the compan- • ion of his councils, and the sure hand to which he could entrust the prompt and effectual direction of his comprehensive and victorious operations. " To you, Sir, I am therefore now to deliver the Thanks of this House, and I do accordingly, in the name, and by the com mand, of the Commons of the United Kingdom, Thank you for your distinguished exertions on the 27th and 28th days of July last, in the memorable battles of Talavera, which terminated in the signal defeat of the forces of the enemy." Upon which Brigadier General Stewart said : — " Mr. Speaker, « I feel myself totally inadequate to express the high sense I enter tain of the distinguished honor that has been conferred upon me, an honor far exceeding any little services I may have rendered in the fortunate situations in which I have been placed. If a sentiment of regret could at such a moment arise in my mind, it would be that (from the circumstance of a severe indisposition) I stand alone here on the present occasion, the army being still on service ; and that I am not accompanied by my gallant brother officers, (equally Members of this House) who are far more eminently entitled to its thanks, and to the applause of their Country, than myself. " If I might venture to arrogate any thing beyond the most anxious zeal for the King's service, and a sincere love for the 304 Lieutenant «BeneraIg. ' profession I belong to, it is an ardent desire to follow the foot steps of my great and gallant Commander, to whose sole abilities and exertions we stand indebted, not only for the battle of Tala vera, but for all those successes which have rendered him alike an ornament to his country, and a terror to her foes. To follow his bright example, to emulate his atchievements, and to be thought worthy of his confidence, I shall ever consider as the surest passport to the greatest distinction that can be conferred on a soldier — I mean the approbation of this honorable House. " I must now offer my sincerest acknowledgements to you, Sir, for the very marked kindness you have shown me in expressing to me the thanks of this House ; by condescending to enumerate my humble services in the partial manner you have done ; and I - beg to assure you it will be my anxious study to avail myself of < all occasions to merit the honor which has this day been conferred - upon me." He was next admitted to the order of the Bath, as one of the Knights of that order, and further permitted to accept and wear the insignia of an Honorary Knight and Commander of the Royal Por tuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword. In 1813 he was appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Court of • Berlin ; the 18th June 1814 a Peer of the realm by the title of Baron Stewart, and the same year Minister to the Court of Prussia. #ajor d&eneratsu 344. Maj. Gen. George Morgan. Appointed Ensign 2nd September 1756 ; Ensign 2nd foot guards 1st March 1758; Lieutenant and Captain 23rd August 1762; Captain and Lieutenant Colonel 26th May 1775 ; Colonel in the army 16th May 1781 ; and Major General 28th April 1790. 345. Maj. Gen. James Hugonin. This officer was a Captain in the army 15th October 1759 ; Cap tain in the 4th dragoons 8th February 1 764 ; Lieutenant Colonel 22nd December 1775 ; Colonel in the army 16th May 1781 ; and Major General 28th April 1790. 346. Maj. Gen. William Fawcett, Governor of Limerick. Jhis officer was appointed Ensign 3d foot guards 2d July 1767} Captain and Lieutenant Colonel 18th September 1779; Colonel u* the army 18th November 1790; and Major General 3d Octobet 1794. This officer is Governor of Limerick. He has been on half-pay since 1783 . his rank is stationary. R. Mil. Cal. I. U 306 Major «5eneral£. 347. Maj. Gen. William Maddox Richardson, Governor of North Yarmouth. This officer held the rank of Capt. in the army 12th January 1763; Captain in the 3d foot 22d October 1766 ; Major in the army 29th August 1777; Lieutenant Colonel 19th February 178S; Colonel 1st March 1794 ; and Major General 3d May 1796. This officer is Governor of North Yarmouth. He served at Minorca, and has been on half-pay many years ; his rank is stationary. 348. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Amherst, Governor of Upnor Castle. This officer was appointed Ensign 60th foot 3d June 1771; Captain 60th foot 2d August 1777 ; Major in the army 1st October 1782 ; Major in the 10th foot 8th August 1783 ; Lieutenant Co lonel 10th foot 26th September 1788 ; Colonel, in the army 26th January 1795 ; Major General 1st January 1798. This officer is Governor of Upnor Castle ; his rank is stationary. S49. Maj. Gen. W. G. Strutt, Governor of Quebec. This officer was appointed Captain in the 91st foot 7th December 1779 ; Major in the 60th foot 9th August 1783 ; Lieutenant Co lonel 54th foot 4th April 1792 ; Colonel in the army 21st August 1795 ; Brigadier General in the West Indies 9th September 1795 } and Major General 18th June 1798. This officer was formerly Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle ; from which he has been removed to the Government of Quebec ; his rank is stationary. HAY FERRIER. 307 S50. Maj. Gen. Stephen Poyntz, \ Late Supernumerary Lieutenant Colonel 1st Life Guards. .This officer was appointed Brigadier and Lieutenant in the 1st . nfo^guards 24th December 17 7 7 ; Exempt and Captain 15th March IrST; Supernumerary Lieutenant Colonel 4th February 1793; Ci^n|l m.the army;3d May 1796; and Major General 1st Janu'tiln.; 1801. His rank is stationary. jy-. 1801. His rank is stationary. 351. ; Maj. Gen. Hay Ferrier, Lieutenant Governor of Dunbartori Castle. In the year 176S this officer was received as a Cadet in General Marjoribank's regiment of H>^ Majesty's Scotch hrigade,.. then in the service of Holland as BritishvAuxiliaries. He Was appointed to an Ensigncy on the SOth of October 1764, and served as. a sub altern till promoted to a Company in the same regiment, ..on'. the 28th October 1772. On the 30th July 1776 he was appointed Major; and on the 9th August 1779 Lieutenant Colonel to the Honorable General John Stewart's regiment of the same brigade ; which commission he held till the 10th of February 1783, when, in consequence of an orderfrom the Dutch Government calling upon the brigade to abjure their allegiance to their own Sovereign and take one in place of it to their High Mightinesses, he, with 60 others, gave in his resignation, and was deputed with another field officer in the name of their brother officers, to lay their case before HJs Majesty, who was most graciously pleased to approve of their con duct, and signified to them, through Lord Grantham, then Secre tary of State, and General Conway, Commander-in-Chief, his acceptation of their offer of service, should the war continue. Peace, however, shortly after taking place and their situation being brought before Parliament, half-pay was unanimously voted them agreeable to the regimental rank respectively held by each indi vidual. In this situation he continued- till 1793, when the war breaking out, His Majesty in council was pleased to order the revival of the Scotch brigade, and letters of service" for raising three battalions were issued . the officers, in the first instance, to be composed of those 308 J&ajor dBenerfllg. on the half-pay of the brigade ; the deficiencies to be supplied from the half-pay of the British line. To the third of these battalions, this officer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, and at a very considerable private expense completed the same in October 1794. In this month, a Colonel-in-Chief with a fourth battalion was appointed from the British line, who had never served in the brigade. This appointment was accompanied with a letter from the Secretary at War, stating, that it was in no ways to interfere with Lieutenant Colonel Ferrier's emoluments, as Lieutenant Co lonel Commandant. He had also the mortification to be informed by the Commander-in-Chief (Lord Amherst) that the ten years he had been on British half-pay was not to be included in looking forward to brevet rank in the line, and was only to reckon from the date of his last commission, in 1793. In 1795 the first and second battalions having failed to complete their numbers, they were ordered to be drafted into the other two, of which the fourth was made the first, and the third the second. The battalion this officer had the honor to command, after having taken the duty of Edinburgh Castle during the latter end of 1794, Dunbar Camp, and Hilsea Barracks, embarked at Portsmouth in November 1795 for Gibraltar, where he commanded it, and remained till April 1796, when on receipt of an order incorporating his battalion with a junior one, he was reduced to a Regimental Lieutenant Colonelcy and deprived of his emolument as Commandant. The reason assigned for such arrangement being, that the junior battalion was commanded by an officer who, from the Commander-in-Chief's depriving Lieutenant Colonel Ferrier of ten years rank, was his senior. He obtained leave to return to Great Britain ; and on the 3d May 1796 he was included in the promotion of Colonels. On the 25th he was appointed Inspecting Field Officer of the recruiting service at Edinburgh ; and on the 2d July 1796 Lieutenant Go vernor of Dunbarton Castle. He continued Inspecting Field Officer till his promotion as Major General the 29th April 1802^ and some months after, in consequence of the peace, there being then no prospect of his regiment being restored to him, he with the view of relieving himself from some of the very heavy expenses incurred in raising it, obtained permission to dispose of his Lieu tenant Colonelcy, retaining the rank he then held, and his Lieu tenant Governorship. LAWRENCE BRADSHAW. 309 S52. Maj. Gen. Lawrence Bradshaw, Late Lieutenant Colonel 1st Life Guards. The 25th September 1780 this officer received an Ensigncy in the 46th ; the 3d September 1781 a Lieutenantcy in the 13th foot; and the 30th April 1790 a company in the 13th foot. War with Spain being expected in consequence of the Nootka Sound dis pute, he embarked at Cork immediately after his promotion to a Company, and sailed on an expedition against the Spanish settle ments in the West Indies ; but receiving intelligence at Barbadoes that the differences . between the two countries were adjusted, he proceeded to Jamaica. On the breaking out of the war with France in 1793, he embarked with his regiment on an expedition against St. Domingo, and served in that island as long as the regi ment remained there, and in every part of the island occupied by the British. He was in various actions whilst employed on this service, and commanded at St. Mare's and Tiburon when those posts were attacked by the enemy. He received the Majority of his regiment the 1 1th September 1794, and commanded it in St. Domingo till 1795, when he returned to England. The 1st Sep tember 1795 he succeeded to the Lieutenant Colonelcy. Lieute- -nant Colonel Bradshaw served in Ireland during the rebellion : in 1 800 he embarked in the expedition to Ferrol, and afterwards pro- . ceeded to Gibraltar, when the troops joined the army under Sir R. Abercrombie and sailed to Cadiz, where it not being deemed expe dient to land, the army was divided, and the 13th foot, after remaining some time at Minorca, Malta, and Marmorice, proceed ed to Aboukir Bay under Sir R. Abercrombie, and landed in Rgypt on the 8th March 1801. Lieutenant Colonel Bradshaw was in the battles of the 13th and 21st of that month, and remained in Egypt with the regiment until ordered home on account of ill health. 2d February 1803 he was appointed Major and Lieute nant Colonel of. the 1st Life Guards; the 25th September 1803 Colonel by brevet, and the 25th July 1810 Major Gene ral. In 1 806 this officer was appointed one of the commissioners of Military Enquiry, which situation he held till the termination of that commission in 1812, when he obtained permission to dis pose of his regimental commission in the 1st Life Guards, retain ing his rank in the army. 319 lEtajor Central.?. 353. Maj. Gen. Andrew Burn, Colonel Commandant in the Royal Marines. This officer, was appointed second Lieutenant in the Royal Marines 29th April 1761; Captain 2d January 1779; Major in the army 1st March 1794; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 14th February 1797; Major and Captain in the Royal Ma rines 22d April 1798 ; Colonel Commandant en second and Colo* nel in the army 21st December 1803 ; Colonel Commandant 10th November 1808 ; and Major General 25th July 1810. 354. Maj. Gen. Augustus Baron Veltheim, Colonel Commandant 2d Light Dragoons, King's German Legion. This officer was appointed Colonel in the British army, and Lieu tenant Colonel 2d dragoons King's German Legion 1 7th April 1804 ; Colonel Commandant 3rd Hussars King's German Legion 7th May 1810; Major General 25th July 1810; and Colonel Commandant of the 2d Light Dragoons King's German Legion 24th January 1814. r**.w.;j ¦v'*'7** 355. Maj. Gen. Thomas Trotter, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer entered the service the 10th January 1770, as Lieutenant Fireworker in the artillery, and in which corps he was appointed second Lieutenant the 1st Jpjiuary 177l. In 1773 he- went to America, and in 1774 joined the army at Boston, where he remained until the evacuation of that place in 1776 ; he accom panied Sir W. Howe's army to Halifax, and from thence to the neighbourhood of New York; was present at the affairs of Brooklyn, White Plains, &c. in that year. In 1 777 he accompanied the army up the Chesapeake and to Philadelphia, and was present at the affair of Brandywine, &c, he returned with the army through New Jersey JOHN SMITH. 311 to New York in 1778, and in 1779 went to Virginia with the late General Leslie, and to Carolina; the 7th July 1779 he received his appointment as 1st Lieutenant; from 1779 until 1782, he served in various parts of America, but having been appointed a Captain Lieutenant in October 1781, he returned to England in the sum mer of 1782. In 1787 he went to Canada, and remained in that country until 1790, when he returned to England upon succeeding -to a company of artillery in the month of March of that year, which company was quartered at Portsmouth. In 1793 he went with his company to Flanders, where he served with the Duke of York's army, and returned with it to England in the summer of 1795 ; during, the time of his being in Flanders he was present at the siege of Valenciennes, and in several actions in the field, at one of which he had the honor to receive His Royal Highness the Commander- in-Chief's thanks in public orders : during the principal part of the campaigns in Flanders, he served as Major of brigade to the artillery. In 1795 he received his commission as Major of artillery ; and in 1796 that of Lieutenant Colonel. He served with the army in Holland during the short campaign of 1799 ; in 1801, upon the incorporation of the British with the Irish artillery, he was ordered upon duty to Ireland, where he has remained ever since, and for the last six years he commanded the artillery in that country. The 20th July 1804 he was appointed Colonel in the artillery; in April 1808 Brigadier General in the army ; and the 25th July 1810 Major General. S56. Maj. Gen. John Smith, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artiHery 7th July 1779; Captain . Lieutenant and Captain 28th February 1782; Major in the army 1st March 1794; Major in the royal artillery 6th March 1795 ; Lieutenant Colonel 27th August 1797 ; Colonel 20th July 1804; and Major General 25tfi July 1810, This officer has served on the Staff at Gibraltar. s.ia lEaj.tJt CeneraljS. 357. Maj. Gen. William Cuppage, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the royal artillery 16th March 1771 ; 1st Lieutenant 7th July 1779; Captain Lieutenant and Captain 28th February 1782; Major in the army 1st March 1794 ; Major in the royal artillery 26th January 1796 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1798 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 17th January 1798; Colonel in the royal artillery 20th July 1804 ; and Major General 25th July 1810. 358. MAj. Gen. Thomas Seward, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the royal artiHery 15th March 1771; 1st Lieutenant 7th July 1779; Captain Lieutenant and Captain 11th March 1782 ; Major in the army 1st March 1794; Major in the artillery 25th September 1796; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1798; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 15th July 1799 ; Colonel in the royal artillery 20th July 1804 ; and Major General 25th July 1810. He has lately served on the Staff at Exeter. 359. Maj. Gen. Francis La ye, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer received a 2d Lieutenant's commission in the Royal Artillery in 1771 ; and in 1773 embarked with a detachment of Artillery for New York, from whence in 1774 he proceeded to Boston. On the 17th June 1775 a detachment of two Captains, two Lieutenants, of which this officer was one, with two com panies of Royal Artillery, were attached to the division of the army ordered under Major General Howe to the attack of the American army entrenched upon the heights of Bunker's Hill, the two Cap tains and the Lieutenants were wounded, and carried off the field, BAYLY WELLINGTON. 313 Lieutenant Laye received a severe contusion on the thigh, but remained in command of the Artillery and had the honor to receive the thanks of Major General Howe. He was at Boston during the whole of the time it was besieged, was in the several actions at Staten Island and Long Island ; at the taking of New York, and in the actions upon that Island ; at the battle of White Plains, and the attack and taking of Fort Washington, where he was attach ed to the 42d Royal Highland regiment with two battalion guns. He was in the several actions in the Jerseys, and upon the expe dition to the Head of Elk ; at the battle of Brandywine, German- town, &c. ; in the action at Monmouth Court House in the Jerseys; was upon the expedition under the orders of Lieutenant General Leslie to Virginia, and afterwards attached in command of the detachment of Artillery with the army under Lord Rawdon, now Lord Moira. In 1781 at the battle of Camden, he was most severely wounded, and received the thanks of Lord Rawdon, and was particularly named in the gazette. On account ofthe severe state of his wound, he was ordered by the Medical Board to England, having served in America from 1773 until 1781. He was from 1783 until 1786 upon command at the 'Island of Jamaica-; and joined the army nnder His Royal Highness the Duke of York at Dunkirk. In 1800 he was appointed to the command of the Royal Artillery in the windward and leeward West India Islands, and was upon the expedition and taking of the Islands with the combined naval, and military forces under the orders of Admiral Duckworth, and General Trigge, upon which service he received the thanks of General Trigge, and was named upon that occa sion in the gazette. Having served the allotted time of his command in the West Indies he was relieved, and returned to Eng land : since that time he has been employed in eommand of the Royal Artillery in the Northern district ; and upon the Staff as Brigadier, and Major General in North Britain. From the Staff of North Britain he was removed the 24th of September 1814. This officer received the jrank of Colonel in the army and in the ArtiHery 20th July 1804 ; and of Major General 25th July 1810. S60. Maj. Gen. Bayly Wellington, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 2d Lieutenant in the royal artillery 15th March 1771; 1st Lieutenant 7th July 1779; Captain 27th No vember 1782 ; Major in the army 1st March 1794 ; Lieutenant 3i4 _$&ajor General!*. Colonel in the army 1st January 1798 ; Lieut. Colonel in the royai artillery 16th July 1799; Colonel in the royal artillery 20th July 1804 ; and Major General 25th July 1810. 361. Maj. Gen. P. Du Plat, Colonel Commandant 8th Line Battalion King's German Legion. This officer was appointed Colonel in the British service and Co lonel Commandant of the 8th line battalion King's German Le gion 18th September 1804 ; Major General 25th July 1810. He has served for some time on the staff of the army in Sicily finder Lord William Bentinck. 362. Maj. Gen. Augustus Houstedt, "*¦ Colonel Commandant 6th Line Battalion King's German Legion. This officer was appointed Colonel in the British service and Co lonel Commandant 6th line battalion King's German Legion 15th December 1804 ; Major General 25th July 1810. He has served on die staff of the army in Sicily under Lord William Bentinck. 363. Maj. Gen. Victor Baron Alten, Colonel ofthe 2nd Hussars King's German Legion. This officer commenced his military career the 1st of May 1770 as. Ensign in the 2d regiment of foot in the Hanoverian service ; in 1774 he obtained a Lieutenantcy in the Hanoverian life guards ; in 1786 he received the rank of Captain, and in 1791 a troop in the 8th regiment of dragoons. In 1793 he was appointed Aid-de- Camp to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, m Brabant ; in 1794 he had the brevet of Major; in 1799 was appointed to a Majority in the 4th dragoons ; in 1 803 he obtained the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel ; in 1 804 he was appointed to command the 1st Hussars King's German Legion, which corps he had raised; the 19th December 1804 Colonel in the army, and Colonel of the 2d Hussars King's German Legion, which corps he also raised. BARON ALTEN. 3.5 In 1807 he embarked with his regiment on the expedition to the Isle of Rugen, and from thence to the Isle of Zealand ; he served at the siege of Copenhagen under Lord Cathcart ; and was present at the battle ofKibge. In 1809 he embarked on the expedition to Walcheren; the ,25th July 1810 he received the rank of Major General. In 1811 he was ordered to join the army under Lord Wellington, in the Peninsula, and had the eommand of a hussar "brigade. The 25th of September in the same year Major General ¦ Alten was warmly engaged at Elbodon near Cuidad Rodrigo ; his brigade consisting only of 330 men of the 1 1th light dragoons and 1st hussars King's German Legion, maintained a position against 2,700 of the enemy's cavalry, and charged them 10 different times. After the fall of Cuidad Rodrigo, and the march of Lord Welling ton with the British to Badajos, Major General Alten was directed to remain with the 1st hussars King's German Legion at Tene- bron, between Cuidad Rodrigo and Salamanca, to watch the ene my, and where he continued till obliged to retire, by a movement of the whole force under General Marmont. On the 18th of July 1812 his brigade consisting of the "14th light dragoons, and the 1st hussars King's German Legion, had a sharp action at Costrilia with a body of French cavalry, very superior in point of numbers. Major General Alten's brigade maintained its position and the French General Carrier was taken prisoner. The 22d of July, at the battle of Salamanca, the Mijor General was shot through the thigh, and in consequence obliged to remain six weeks at Sala manca. From thence he went to Madrid to retake the command of his brigade. On Lord Hill retiring from Madrid towards Por tugal, to join Lord Wellington near Salamanca, Major General Alten's brigade:,„-at that time consisting of the 14th light dragoons, the 1st hi$0fasmd the 2d hussars King's German Legion, formed the rear guard, and had daily skirmishes with the French cavalry. Near Mattilda 1 8 French squadrons attacked, but without obtaining any success, the seven under his command. On Lord Welling ton, in 181S, marching from Portugal into Spain, Major General Alten's brigade formed the* advanced guard before the centre co lumn. He was present at the battle of Vittoria, and after that en gagement pursued with his brigade (consisting then of the 14th light dragoons and 1st hussars King's German Legion) and Colonel Ross's troops of light artillery, the enemy to Pampehma. At the battle in the Pyrenees, the 10th November, Major General Alten's brigade was present; it crossed the Pyrenees with the infantry, and it San Jean Pie de Puerto it was posted with the corps of the Spa nish General, Mina, in the rear, to watch and to keep the enemy in check, and to cover the rear in the vicinity of Harparen. "Major General Alten was placed in April 1814 on the staff of the British 3i6 uaajor «e>eneraij?. army in Holland, and received the command ofthe 5th regiment of cavalry of King's German Legion, which he still holds. 364. Maj. Gen. Sir Sigismund Baron Low, Colonel Commandant 4th Line Battalion King's German Legion. This officer was appointed Colonel in the British service 20th December 1804; Colonel Commandant 4th line battalion King's German Legion 17th August 1809 ; and Major General 25th July 1810. This officer served on the Staff in the Peninsula under Lord Wellington, and is an Honorary Knight Commander'' of the Mili tary Order of the Bath. 365. Maj. Gen. Adolphus Baron Barsse, Colonel Commandant 2nd Line Battalion Kings German Legion. This officer had the rank of Colonel in the British service, and was appointed Colonel Commandant of the 2nd line battalion King's German Legion 21st December 1804; and Major General 25th July 1810. He served on the Staff in Sicily under Lord William Bentinck, and was engaged in the operations on the Eastern coast of Spain under Lieutenant General Sir W. H. Clinton. S66. Maj. Gen. Baron Sir Charles Alten, Coloyiel Commandant 1st Battalion Light Infantry King's German- Legion. This officer was appointed Colonel in the British service, and Colonel Commandant 1st battalion of light infantry King's Ger man Legion 22nd December 1804 ; and Major General 25th July 1810. J. HOPE. 317 This officer served on the Staff in the Peninsula under Lord Wellington, and is at present on the Staff of the army in Flanders ; 'he is an Honorary Knight Commander of the Military Order of the Bath. ; 367. Maj. Gen. J. Croker, Lieutenant Colonel late Independent and Unattached Officers. This officer had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the army 28th January 1796; of Colonel 1st January 1805; and of Major Ge neral 25th July 1810. He has been on half-pay many years ; but has served on the Staff at St. Vincent's in the West Indies, where he continues at present. 368. Maj, Gen. L. B. Wallis, IJeutenant Colonel late 95th Foot. This officer had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the army 2nd February 1796; of Colonel 1st January 1805; and of Major General 25th July 1810. He has been on half-pay for a long period. S69. Maj. Gen. J. Hope, Late Lieutenant Colonel of the 60th Foot. In November 1778 this officer was appointed a Cadet in General Houston's regiment of the Scots brigade, then serving in Holland, and after being drilled, &c. went through the subordinate ranks of Corporal and Serjeant; and in December 1779 received an En signcy in the same regiment, then quartered in Bergen-op-Zoom ; he marched with it to Maestrecht, where he continued till August 1781, and then returned home. The 26th April 1782 he ob tained a Company, and again joined his regiment at Maestrecht. Having quitted the Dutch service, he was with other officers, in si* l&ajor «5enera#. similar situations, placed by the King on half-pay. The 29th September 1787 he obtained a Company in the 6,0th ; and in De cember of that year was again placed on half-pay. In June 1788 he was appointed to a Troop in the 13th light dragoons; and in November 1792 Aid-de-Camp to Lieutenant General Sir W. Erskine, with whom he went to Flanders early in 1793. He served the campaign of that and the following year, and was pre sent at all the actions in which the cavalry were engaged. He accompanied Sir William to England in 1 795, and who died in March of that year. The 25th March he was pramoted to a Majority in the 28th light dragoons; and 20th February 1796 to a Lieutenant Colonelcy. In April following he embarked with his regiment for the Cape, and remained there till the regiment was drafted ; in January 1799 he arrived in England. The 19th April he was appointed to the 37th foot ; and in February 1 800 sailed to join the regiment at St. Vincent's. He remained in the West Indies till November 1804, when he returned home and exchanged into the 60th ; his commission in the latter corps was dated 30th June 1804. The 1st January 1805 he received the rank of Co lonel, and was placed on the Staff as Assistant Adjutant General in North Britain ; at the close of 1805 he was appointed Deputy Adjutant General to the expedition destined for the Baltic, under Lieutenant General Lord Cathcart ; but the troops being recalled, this officer did not proceed on that expedition, but returned to his Staff at Edinburgh. In May 1807 he was again appointed Deputy Adjutant General to the Forces going up the Baltic under the same officer, and did duty as such. He was present at the siege and capture of Copenhagen. In April 1808 he was appointed Brigadier General on the Staff in North Britain, and subsequently Deputy Adjutant General to the Forces in that country ; the 25th July 1810 Major General, and placed on the Staff of the Severn District; from whence, in 1812, he was removed to that of the army under Lord WeUington in the Peninsula, and subsequently to the Staff of Ireland and of North Britain, where he still con tinues. 370. Maj. Gen. George Meyrick, Lieutenant Colonel of the late 130th Foot. This officer had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the army 19th March 1796; of Colonel in the army 1st January 1805; and of Major General 25th July 1810. He has been on half-pay many years. LORD BLAYNEY. 31* 371. Maj. Gen. Sir Montague Burgoyne, Bt. Late Lieutenant Colonel 21st Dragoons. Sir Montague entered the army 1st May 1789 as a Cornet in the dragoons; 20th February 1793 he was appointed Lieutenant; 1st May 1793 Captain; 24th June 1795 Major in the 27th light dra goons; and 5th April 1796 Lieutenant Colonel of the 32nd light dragoons. He was reduced on half-pay in March 1798 ; appointed Lieutenant Colonel to the 21st dragoons llth March 1801; and placed again on half-pay 24th August 1802. From November 1803 to June 1806, and from May 1807 to May 1808, he acted as Inspecting Field Officer of Yeomanry Cavalry. The 1st Janu ary 1805 he received the brevet of Colonel ; the rank of Brigadier General in May 1808 ; and 25th July 1810 that of Major General. He. subsequently served on the Staff at Gibraltar. 372. Maj. Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, Colonel of the 79th Foot. This officer raised, and was appointed Lieutenant Colonel Com mandant of, the 79th foot 30th January 1794 ; Lieutenant Colonel 3rd May 1796 ; Colonel in the army, and of the 79th foot, 1st January 1805 ; Major General 25th July 1810. He is a Knight Commander of the Military Order of the Bath. 373. Maj. Gen. Andrew, Lord Blayney, Late Lieutenant Colonel of the 89th Foot. His Lordship entered the army the 25th November 1789 as an Ensign in the S2nd. In December he joined at Gibraltar, and went from thence to Barbadoes and Jamaica on being promoted to 320 lEajat dBeneraife. a Lieutenantcy in an independent company. He returned to Eng land, and in 1791 exchanged into the 41st foot ; the same year he received a company in the 38th ; and in December 1793 a Major ity in the 89th regiment. In June 1794 Lord Blayney sailed in Lord Moira's expedition to Ostend, and was engaged in a skirmish at Duffel Bridge, Dendermond, and Alost. Soon after joining the Duke of York's army, his Lordship was in a skirmish at the ad vanced posts under the command of Count Sombrieul ; in the action at Boxtel ; and at the sieges of Tiel and Nimeguen. The 3rd May 1796 Lord Blayney received the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel, and the 1st March 1798 he succeeded to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of his regiment; in 1797 he commanded some light cavalry, in fantry, and artillery, in the North, during disturbances ; and in 1798 a battalion of light infantry in the rebellion in Ireland, and was wounded at Vinegar Hill. In November of the latter year he embarked in command of the 89th, and in company with the 30th sailed for Minorca, and a few days after arriving in that island pro ceeded from thence with the SOth, both regiments being under the command of Sir Charles Stewart, to Palermo, and from thence to Messina, for the protection of the King of Naples and royal family. His Lordship was employed at Messina in having the works put into a state of repair, and in supplying Cardinal Rufo, on the coast of Calabria, with arms, ammunition, &c. Fromjthence he went to Lord Nelson at Palermo, and in 1799 proceeded with letters from that Admiral to Sir Thomas Troubridge on board the Culloden ; he was present at the bombardment of Civita Vecchia ; the surrender of 4,700 French under General Grennier ; and at the capitulation of Rome. He returned home over land, and visited the head quar ters of the Russian and Austrian armies. Lord Blayney, in January 1800, again left England, and joined his regiment at Malta ; he was at the siege and blockade of that place, and the first to take possession of Fort Ricasoli with some light troops, four days previous to the final surrender of that im portant fortress. On the 20th December he sailed under Sir Ralph Abercrombie for Egypt, and was in the actions of the 13th and 21st March 1801. On the 3rd May the 89th, under command of this officer, parted from the main body of the army, and accom panied Colonel Stewart in command of 1200 Albanians. In cross ing the Nile several lives were lost ; at Foua on the 7th, a skirmish with a small body of French took place ; on the 9th, the 89th being detached six miles in front of the British army, and on the opposite bank of the Nile, Lord Blayney was forced to attack (opposite Rhamanie) a French force infinitely superior in numbers, the re sult of which was a total defeat of the enemy ; on the 15th an other successful skirmish took place, and on the 6th June the 89th S. MAHON: 321 joined the Grand Vizier and Turkish army. On the 8th of the latter month, the 89th and SOth regiments took possession of Fort Liouski, and on the 10th of Grand Cairo, where upwards of 11,000 men surrendered to Lord Hutchinson. On the evacuation of Egypt Lord Blayney proceeded with his regiment to Malta, and landed there on the 10th September; and from thence he proceeded to Gibraltar, and afterwards to England, where he arrived in 1802. The 1st January 1805 Lord Blayney received the brevet of Col onel ; and the 18th July of that year embarked on a secret expe dition (supposed for the capture of the Cape of Good Hope) ; but the 89th under his Lordship's command was afterwards counter manded, and ordered to proceed with Sir Eyre Coote for Jamaica ; it was again countermanded, and finally accompanied Lord Cath cart to Germany. Lord Blayney returned to England in 1806; and in April 1807 sailed for the river Plate under Lieutenant Ge neral Whitelocke ; his Lordship remained at Monte Video 2 months, arid from thence sailed for the Cape of Good Hope, where the ship he was in being leaky, he was obliged to part company, and landed 250 men at Saldhana Bay, and marched from thence to Cape Town, where several soldiers perished from fatigue and want of water. Lord Blayney was encamped at the Cape near 7 months* and acted as Brigadier General ; he went from thence to the Brazils; and in November 1809 returned to England. His Lordship has, since, for a short period, been employed in the Pe ninsula, and was taken prisoner. His Lordship received the rank of Major General the 25th July 1810. 374. Maj. Gen. The Honorable S. Mahon, Late Lieutenant Colonel 7th Dragoon Guards. This officer was Major in the 7th dragoon guards 31st December 179S ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 3rd May 1796 ; Lieutenant Colonel 7th dragoon guards 1st January 1797 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1805 ; and Major General 25th July 1810. He has served for some time on the staff in Ireland, and is at present stationed at Enniskillcn. R. Mil. Cah 322 major i&enew!I.J. 375. Maj. Gen. John Sullivan Wood, Lieutenant Colonel 8th Light Dragoons. This officer was Major in the 21st light dragoons 5th October 1795 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 3rd May 1796 ; Lieuten ant Colonel 8th light dragoons 16th June 1803 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1805 ; Major General 25th July 1810. He has served on the staff in the East Indies^ where he continues at pre sent. 376. Maj. Gen. Daniel O'Meara, Lieutenant Colonel late 12th West India Regiment. This officer was appointed Lieutenant in the 20th foot 20th Sep tember 1777 ; Captain 98th foot 8th November 1781 ; Captain 68th foot llth May 1?85; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 3rd May 179S; Lieutenant Colonel 12th West India regiment 4th October 1797 ; Colonel in the army 1st January 1805 -y and Major General 25th July 1810. He has been on half pay several years, and was lately appointed on the staff at Jamaica, where he contin ues at this period, 377. Maj. Gen, F. Baron Rottenburg, Colonel of « De Roll's" Regiment, This officer was appointed Major in Hompesch's Hussars 25th December 1795 ; and Lieutenant Colonel 25th June 1796 ; from which he was removed to a Lieutenant Colonelcy in the 60th foot 30th December 1797. The 1st January 1805 he received the rank of Colonel; the 25th July 1810 that of Major General; and the 2nd September 1813 the Colonelcy of De Roll's regiment. He lerved during the rebellion in Ireland in 1798* at the taking of . SIR CHARLES COLVILLE. 323 Surinam 21st August 1799 ; in the expedition to Walcheren and the taking of Flushing in 18,09 ; and subsequently on the staff in North America, where he is now serving. 378. Maj. Gen. The Hon. Sir Charles Colville, Colonel ofthe late 5th Garrison Battalion. The 26th December 1781 this officer was appointed Ensign in the 28th foot, which corps he joined in Ireland the 13th June 1787 ; the 30th September 1787 he was promoted to Lieutenant ; and the 21st January 1791 appointed Captain ill an independent company; the 26th May 1791 Captain in the 13th foot. Captain Colville joined the latter corps in Jamaica in December ; he accompanied the expedition to St. Domingo, September 1793, and was personally present at most of the opposed debarkations, attacks of posts and skirmishes between that time and June 1795, when he returned home. The 1st September in the latter year, he was promoted to a Majority in his regiment, and 26th Aug. 1796 to a Lieutenant Colonelcy. He served with the. 13th in Ireland during the rebeUion; in the expe dition to Ferrol, in 1800 ; and to Egypt in 1801. He was present in the action on landing, 8 th March, and in those of the 13th and 21st of that month ; he was subsequently employed in the investment of Alexandria, on the eastern side, and continued in Egypt till March 1 802. In August 1 803 he joined his regiment at Gibraltar, and did garrison duty there until May 1805. The 1st January in the latter year he received the brevet of Colonel. In February 1808 Colo nel Colville accompanied his regiment to Bermuda ; the 25th December 1 809 he was appointed Brigadier General, and employed in the command of the 2d brigade of Sir G. Prevost's division of the army in the investment and siege of Fort Dessaix, and in the absence of Major General Maitland, to the command of the gar rison of Grenada. The 25th July 1810 he received the rank of Major General ; and the Colonelcy of the 5th garrison battalion the 10th October 1812. This officer since served on the staff in the Peninsula. He is a Knight Commander of the Bath. S2-t Major Centralis. 379. Maj. Gen. Frederick Charles White, Late Captain in tlie 1st Foot Guards. This officer entered the service in 1782' as an Ensign in the 64th foot; in 1783 he was appointed Lieutenant in the 16th; in 1784 he received a Company in the 96th, and was placed on half-pay ; in 1786 he obtained a Company in the 16th foot; and in 1789 he was appointed Lieutenant and Adjutant in the 1st foot guards. In 1793 he was appointed Brigade Major to the guards employed in the campaigns in Flanders ; he was present at the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk, and at the action and storming of Lin celles. The 5th September 1796 he was appointed to a Company with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in his regiment. The 1st January 1805 he received the rank of Colonel ; in May 1808 he was appointed Brigadier General in Sicily, in which island he served three years. The 25th July 1810 he received the rank of Major General ; and is now serving on the staff in Ireland. 380. Maj. Gen. Gore Browne, Colonel of the 6th Garrison Battalion, and Lieutenant Governor of Plymouth. This officer entered the service the 5th July 1780 as an Ensign in the 35th, in which rank he served six months in North America, and three years and a half in the West Indies. The 13th March 1789 he obtained his Lieutenantcy; the 8th June 1793 was appointed Captain in the 83d foot; and the 15th July 1794 Major. As Major he served in the West Indies one year and a half. The SOth November 1796 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel ofthe 7th West India regiment ; and the 5th August 1799 Lieutenant Colonel of the 40th foot. He again served in the West Indies one year, and afterwards in the expedition to Holland: he was present in the battles of the 10th and 19th September and 2d Oc tober 1799. The 1st January 1805 he received the Colonelcy of the 40th. He served in the expedition to South America, where he commanded the brigade -that carried the town and fortress of R. COG ULAN. S'25 Monte Video by assault ; also in the expedition to Walcheren as Brigadier General, and there wounded. The 25th July 1810 he received the rank of Major General ; the 21st May 1813 the Colo nelcy of the 6th garrison battalion ; and the same year the Lieu tenant Governorship of Plymouth. 381. Maj. Gen. L. Lindenthall, Late Lieutenant Colonel 97th Foot. This officer, having joined the British army under the Duke of York in Flanders, received the rank of Major, and was appointed an Assistant Quarter-Master-General. On the return of that army to England, he accompanied Sir Ralph Abercrombie to the West Indies, and was present at the taking of St. Lucie, &c. In 1796 he obtained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by being appointed Deputy Quarter-Master-General in Portugal ; and the 26th De cember 1798 he received the "Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 97th foot. He served with the late Sir Charles Stuart, at the taking of Minorca : from thence he was sent to Malta ; and lastly, with Sir Ralph Abercrombie to Egypt. He was at the battles of the 13 th and 21st of March; since which he has not been employed on foreign service. The 1st January 1805 he received the rank of Colonel ; and of Major General 25th July 1810. 382. Maj. Gen. R. Coghlan, Late Lieutenant Colonel 14th Garrison Battalion, This officer entered the service by purchasing a Lieutenantcy in the 88th regiment in the year 1779, with which corps he proceed ed to Jamaica in the same year. He was removed in 1780 to the 1st battalion ofthe 60th regiment, then in Jamaica, and appointed Adjutant to the battalion in 1781. A short time previous to the reduction of the 3d and 4th battalions of die 60th, he resigned his Adjutantcy. The junior officers of each rank in the four battalions being selected for reduction, he was reduced to half pay as a Lieu tenant in 1783. In the following year he paid the regulated diffe- 326 jjflajot ©enerafc*, rence to return to full pay, and re-joined the 1st battalion 60th regiment at Jamaica. In 1786 this battalion went from Jamaica to Nova Scotia, In January 1788 ho purchased a company in the 66th regiment, and joined it at Saint Vincent's, in the Leeward Islands, from whence the 66th arrived at Gibraltar in 1793. In 1795 he obtained, by purchase, a Majority in the 134th regiment, and was ordered from Gibraltar to join that corps at Dundee in North Britain. Before he arrived in England it was reduced, but die officers were continued on full pay. This inactive situation was not conformable to his wishes, and he therefore sought an im mediate opportunity to be employed. The West Indies being the principal scene of action, he availed himself of an exchange, iu January 1796, to the 82d regiment then at Saint Domingo, and soon after his arrival he succeeded to the command ofthe regi ment, the 1st Major having died from a wound, and both the Lieutenant Colonels having died of that most dreadful malady, the yellow fever. The thus vacant Lieutenant Colonelcies were filled up, one by the removal of the present Lieutenant General Wetherall from a black corps, and the other by promoting Major Charlton from the 3d dragoon guards (then in England) who im mediately after was removed from the 82d to the Lieut. Colonelcy of the 3d dragoon guards by purchase ; this leaving a Lieutenant Co lonelcy in the 82d regiment for sale, it was purchased by this offi cer in December 1796. The few officers who survived, and the remains of the regiment not amounting to the number allowed to be borne on the establishment as non-commissioned officers, and even those few nearly exhausted and worn out from the ravages of the climate, returned to England, from St. Domingo, in November 1798. In 1799, under the first act permitting the militia to volun teer into the line, the 82d regiment was, by the exertions of this officer, completed to about 1,100 rank and file. In 1800 the regi ment embarked for Ireland, and after remaining there a few months proceeded to Minorca, where it continued till the evacuation of that island in 1802, when it returned to Ireland. On the 1st January 1 805, he was appointed a Colonel in the army ; in the August following, his health, which was greatly impaired by oomT plaints contracted in the West Indies, was so much injured by the moist- air and damp climate- of Ireland, that as there was no proba bility of the regiment being removed from that country, he was, very reluctantly, compelled to follow the advice repeatedly given to him by some of the most eminent of the faculty, and retire on half pay of the 14th garrison battalion, in order to attend to the recovery of his health. He left the 82d in the highest order and best state of discipline, after having commanded it upwards of nine years, (Lieutenant Colonel Wetherall having been on staff employ SIR HENRY FANE. 327 all the time he belonged to the regiment.) In the course of 18 months this officer was enabled to report himself ready and anxious to be employed in any way the Commander in Chief should think proper : though this application was often repeated, yet he remained unemployed and on half pay as Lieut. Colonel. He was promoted to the rank of Major General in July IS 10, and in a few days after appointed to the staff of Ireland, Where he is still serving. •383. Maj. Gen. Sir Henry Fane, M.P, Colonel of the 4th Dragoon Guards. This officer commenced his military life in 1792 as a Cornet in the JBth dragoon guards; and in 1793 and 1794 served as Aid-de- Camp to the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and obtained a Lieutenantcy in the 55th foot. In 1794 he was promoted to the Captain Lieutenantcy of the 4th dragoon guards, in which regi ment he was appointed Major in 1795, and Lieutenant Colonel in 1797, and continued with it until 24th December 1804, having served with it in Ireland during the whole of the rebellion of 1797. The 25th December 1804, he was 'removed to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 1st or King's dragoon guards; and the 1st of January 1805 obtained the rank of Colonel. In June 1808 he was appointed Brigadier General, and directed to accompany the army ordered to embark at Cork, under Sir A. Wellesley ; and previous to landing in Mondego Bay in Portugal, the light troops, forming the advanced guard of that army, were placed under his com mand. He commanded these troops at the affair of Rolica, and "(with the 50th regiment under the present Major General Walker, added to them) at the battle of Vimiera. He continued in command of these troops until after the convention of Cintra. - He was one of those appointed to march under the orders of Lieutenant.General Sir J. Moore to Spain, in the Autumn of 1809 ; and he command ed a brigade consisting of the 38th, 82d and 79th regiments during the operations of that Autumn, and in the retreat through Gali- cia, and at the battle of Coruna, The 25th July 18 10 he received the rank of Major General, He again embarked for Portugal in the spring of 1810, and was placed in command of the brigade of cavalry consisting o the 3rd dragoon guards, and the 4th dragoons ; he served the campaign of 181Q, and at the battle of Talavera with this brigade In the 328 J&ajor eenerabJ. spring of 1811, he was appointed to command the cavalry attached to the corps of Lieutenant General Hill, consisting of the 13th British and four regiments of Portuguese dragoons, which corps was stationed on the right bank of the Tagus, watching a con siderable French force ; while the main army was on the North side of the Sierra d'Estrella, on the Mondego. In this command he served the campaign of 1811 ; at the battle of Eusaco; and unti} the army was withdrawn to the lines of Torres Vedras. He was then detached by Sir Arthur Wellesley over the Tagus, and placed in command of the troops in the Alentejo : in this unhealthy climate he suffered so much in constitution, as to be obliged to re sign his command and to go to England. In the spring of 1813 he again joined the army under the com mand of Lord Wellington, previous to their advance from the frontier of Portugal ; and resumed the command of the t avalry attached to Lieutenant General Hill's corps, at that time cotfsisting of the 3rd dragoon guards, royal dragoons, 13th light dragoons, one regiment of Portuguese dragoons, and Captain Bean's troop of horse artillery. He commanded these troops in the affair with General Vilatte on crossing the Tormes on the 26th of May ; at the battle of Vittoria ; and to the termination of the campaign. At the commencement of 1814, he was plaqed in command of the troops stationed on the small river Aran, for the purpose of covering the corps of Lieutenant General Lord Hill, employed in the blockade of Bayonne. In the month of February, when the army began to advance into France,~he resumed the command of the cavalry and horse artillery of Lieutenant General Hill ; and he commanded these troops during all the operations of the spring of 1814, at the battles of Orthes, and Aire, and at Toulouse. Since the return of the army to England, he has been appointed Colonel of the 4th dragoon guards. This officer, on account of his share in the operations of the Peninsula, has received an honorary cross bearing the words, Rolica, Vimiera, Coruna, TalaVera, and Vit toria ; and is appointed a knight commander of the Bath. 384, Maj. Gen. Robert Bolton, Lieutenant Colonel 13th Light Dragoons. This officer entered the service as Ensign in the 67th regiment by purchase the 3rd August 1782 ; from which he was removed to a Cornetey in the 13th light dragoons, the 13th December 1783, ROBERT CHENEY. 329 paying the difference from infantry to cavalry ; the 28th February 1785 he purchased a Lieutenantcy in the same regiment ; and the 31st March 1793 a troop. In 1795 he embarked for the West Indies as Major to the same regiment, and was ordered to North America on a particular service, where he continued until the spring of 1797 ; when he returned to his regiment and, the" 7th June fol lowing, was appointed by purchase to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of it ; he took the command of the regiment and on its arrival from the West Indies in 1798 a mere skeleton, it was recruited in both men and horses in a very short time, and for which this officer re peatedly received the thanks of His Royal Highness the Com mander-in-Chief. The 1st January 1805, His Majesty was pleased to appoint him one of his Aid-de-Camps with the rank of Colonel; the same year he was ordered to superintend the formation of the cavalry of the German legion, for the performance of which duty he also received the approbation of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and Commander-in-Chief. In the year 1806 he was ap pointed Inspector of the German' cavalry, in which situation he was obliged to continue until September 1814; although his desire was to be employed in the Peninsula. He was appointed a Brigar dier General in 1808 ; and die 25th July 1810 a Major General,, 385. Maj. Gen. Robert Cheney, Late Captain in 1st Foot Guards. This officer was appointed Ensign in the 1st foot guards 7th April 1784; Lieutenant 15th June 1791; Captain and Lieutenant Colonel 25th October 1797 ; Colonel and Aid-de-Camp to the King 1st January 1805; Major General 25th July 1810. He served on the continent in 1794 and 1795 ; in Sicily in 1806 and 1807 ; in Spain under Sir John Moore in 1808, and commanded a brigade of infantry in Spain in the absence of Major General Leith. He has served on the Staff in England since his appointment to the rank of Major General. 338 .IKtajou Generate. 386. Maj. Gen. Sir George Anson, M. P. Colonel of the 23rd Light Dragoons. The 3rd May 1786 this officer entered the service as a Cornet in the 16th light dragoons ; he obtained a Lieutenantcy in the same corps in 1791, and exchanged into the 20th light dragoons, with which regiment he served fiye years in Jamaica. In 1792 he ob tained a troop in the 20th ; and the Majority, the 25th December 1794 ; from which he exchanged into the 16th dragoons in Sep tember 1797, and returned to England : the same year he received the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 20th light dragoons, and exchang ed into the 15th, -the 6th September 1798, with whom he served in Holland. The 1st January 1805, he was appointed Aid-de- Camp to the King, and received the rank of Colonel in the army ; and the 12th December 1805 Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th light dragoons ; in 1809 he proceeded to Portugal, and commanded the 16th light dragoong in the advance upon Oporto, the 10th, llth, and 12th May 1809. The 24th May 1809 he was appointed Brigadier General, and commanded a brigade of cavalry consisting of the 23rd light dragoons, and the 1st light dragoons King's Ger man legion, at the battle of Talavera, the 27th and 28th July ; he was in the battles of Salamanca and Vittoria, and in various other less important affairs. The 25th July 1810 he received the rank of Major General ; and the 3rd August 1814 the Colonelcy of the 23rd light dragoons. This officer is a knight commander of the Bath. 387. Maj. Gen. Sir Keneth Alexander Howard, Late 2d Major in 2d Foot Guards and Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth, Appointed Ensign 2d foot guards 21st April 1786, and 25th February 1793 embarked for and served the campaign in Flanders ; the "25th April 1793 he obtained a Lieutenantcy, and the 1st Sept. the Adjutantcy. He continued serving with his regiment on the con tinent till May 1795, when the troops returned home. He was wounded at the battle of St. Amand ; and present at all the actions in which the guards were employed on the continent. -The 30th T. R. CHARLETON. 331 December 1797 he was promoted to a Captain Lieutenantcy and to a company 25th July 1799. The 13th June 179S he was appointed Major of Brigade to the guards sent to Ireland, where he served during the whole of the rebellion, In August 1799 he accompanied his regiment to the Helder. The 1st July.1801 he was deputed to act as Inspector General of foreign corps during the absence from England of Colonel, now Lieutenant General, W. Clinton, and on that officer's return, he was appointed 25th February 1802 Deputy Inspector General of foreign corps, and on that office being abolished, he was made Commandant of the foreign depot. The 1st January 1805 he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to the King, and received the rank of Colonel ; the 4th August 1808, 2d Major in his regiment; and the 25th July 1810 Major General. He has subsequently served on the Staff of the army in Spain and Portugal, and is at present Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth. This officer is a ICnight Commander of the Bath. 388. Maj. Gen. Thomas Nepean, Colonel in the Royal Engineers. This officer was 1st Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers 18th December 1778 ; Captain 15th November 1786; Major in the army 6th May 1795 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers 18th August 1797; Colonel in the Royal Engineers 1st March 1805; and Major General 4th June 1811. He has for some time served on the staff at Plymouth. 389. Maj. Gen. T. R. Charleton, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was 1st Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery 7th July 1779; Captain Lieutenant and Captain 1st December 1782; •Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1793 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Artillery 18th April 1801 ; Colonel in the Royal Artillery 28. th June 1805 ; and Major General 4th. June 1811. 332 iUajpr (generate. S90. Maj. Gen. Sir Henry De Hinuber, Colonel Commandant 3d Line Battalion King's German Legion. This officer had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the British service, and the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 3d Line Battalion King's German Legion 16th June 18Q4 ; he was appointed Colo nel Commandant 3d Line Battalion King's German Legion 9th July 1805; and Major General 4th June 1811. He has served on the staffof the army in Sicily under Lord William Bentinck; and is an honorary Knight Commander of the Military Order of the Bath. 391. Maj. Gen. Sir C. Shipley, Kt. Colonel in the Royal Engineers. This officer was appointed Practitioner Engineer and Ensign in the Royal Engineers 1st April 1771 ; Lieutenant 4th March 1776; Captain 15th November 1786; Major in the- army 6th May 1795; Colonel in the Royal Engineers 13th July 1805; and Major General 4th June 1811. He has served for some time on the staff at Barbadoes, and continues there at present. 392. Maj. Gen. Sir Henry Bell, Colonel Commandant in the Royal Marines: This officer was appointed 2d Lieutenant in the Royal Marines 19th February 1771 ; Captain Lieutenant 27th August 1779; Major in the army 1st March 1794 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1798; Lieutenant Colonel and Captain in the Royal Marines 1st July 1803 ; Colonel in the army 15th August 1805 ; Colonel Commandant in the Royal Marines 25th July 1809 ; and Major General 4th June 1811, He is a Knight Com mander of the Bath. WILLIAM THOMAS' DlLKES. . 333 393. Maj. Gen. Thomas Strickland, Colonel Commandant en second Royal Marines. This officer was appointed 2nd Lieutenant 16th February 1775 5 1st Lieutenant in 1776 ; Captain 8th July 1780 ; Major 1st March 1794; Lieutenant Colonel 1st January 1798 ; Colonel 15th Au gust 1805 ; Major General 4th June 1811. 394. Maj. Gen. the Hon. Thomas Mahon, Lieutenant Colonel ofthe 9lh Dragoons. This officer was Major in the army, 26th November 1 794 ; Major 24th light dragoons 25th April 1796 ; Lieut. Colonel 9th dragoons 1st January 1797 ; Colonel in the army SOth October 1805 ; and Major General 4th June 1811. He has served on the Staff at Kinsale in Ireland for a considerable period. 395. Maj. Gen. Sir J. S. Maxwell, Bt. This officer was Major in the 23rd light dragoons llth March 1795 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1797 ; Colonel in the army 30th October 1805 ; and Major General 4th June 1811. He has, been on the half-pay of the 23rd light dragoons many years. 396. Maj. Gen. William Thomas Dilkes, Late Captain in the 3rd Foot Guards. This officer, whilst at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, (in 1779) was appointed 4th December Ensign'in the 49th regi ment ; he continued at the said academy until 1782, when he 334 lilajot Oeneraij?. joined the 103d regiment in Ireland as Lieutenant, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie. In March 1783 he purchased an Ensigncy in the 3rd foot guards; from January 1788 till January .1789 he served as Aid-de-Camp to the late General O'Hara, then commanding at Gibraltar. In 1790 this officer was appointed Adjutant to his regiment, -the 3rd foot guards ; in 1792 Lieutenant and Captain ;¦ and in 1793 he embarked for the continent with the first body of troops, consisting of three battalions of foot guards under Major General Lake, and a brigade of the line, 14th, 37th, and 53rd regiments under Major General Abercrombie, with a small de tachment of artillery. He served the whole of the campaigns iii the Netherlands, and was present at. all the principal occurrences. In May 1795 Captain Dilkes returned to England with the last body of the troops which had been employed in the campaigns in Flanders. In February 1797 he was promoted to a Company in his regiment, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel ; and in the following year he embarked with the guards for Ireland, during the rebellion, and remained in that country till June 1799. In the month of August of the latter year, Lieutenant Colonel Dilkes embarked again with the expedition to the Helder, and was present in the different actions that took place in that campaign. In 1800 Lieutenant Colonel Dilkes returned to Ireland with the same brigade, from which he was removed in the August of that year, by being attached to the light infantry, then supposed to be first destined for service. In 1804 he took the command of the 3rd regiment of guards; in the brevet of October 1805 he was appointed Colonel, and in 1808 Colonel on the Staff to command the brigade of guards in London. In February 1810 he received orders to Serve in Portugal, with the rank of Brigadier General, and to take the command of the brigade of guards serving there ; but his destination was shortly after changed to the command of the brigade of guards ordered to Cadiz, for which place he embarked in the month of March. Early in the following year he again embarked with this brigade, in the expedition that sailed from Cadiz, under Lieutenant General Gra ham ; and at the battle of Barrosa was second in command. The troops ordered for that service marched from Isla on the night of the 1 7th February, and embarked the next morning at day-break in Cadiz Bay. In the evening of the 2 1st the expedition sailed ; it arrived off Tarifa on the following day ; but as the weather proved unfavorable for a landing at that place it proceeded to Algesiras, where the troops landed on the morning of the 23rd. On the 24th they marched to Tarifa, through a beautiful and ro mantic track of country, without any other road than merely a mule path, which was found scarcely practicable for the advance William thomas .dilkes. 335 of the .cavalry ; all the artillery, therefore, was sent onwards by water. On the 27th the Spanish troops, Under General Lapena, arrived from Cadiz, and landed at Tarifa ; they had been embarked iu open vesseb, even before the. British, and were consequently much exposed to die inclemency of the weather during the whole period, and in very confined and crowded situations. However, they were in readiness to march on the next morning, thereby exempli fying that patience and submission under great hardships and pri vations, which constitute the best military feature of the Spanish character. During the halt of the British at Tarifa, measures were adopted to render the road towards Medina Sidonia practicable, _ The allied army marched on the 28th to Facinas, always en bivouac; in the night between the 1st and 2d of March to the neighbourhood of Casa Vieja ; a long fatiguing night march across a country much intersected with water-courses. On the morning of the 3d, a battalion of . Walloon guards and the regiment of Cuidad Real, joined the reserve, (as the corps under Lieutenant General Graham's command was styled ;) the former was incor porated with the brigade of guards, the latter with Colonel Wheat- ley's brigade : the army marched during the whole day, and halted in the vicinity of Vejar at night. 'In the evening of the 4th the troops were again in motion, and continued to march until the morning of the 5th, when the van-guard proceeded to attack the enemy's position opposite the point of Santi Petri, and the reserve halted on the east side of the heights of Barrosa, (by some called Cerra del Puerca.) The attack of the van-guard on the enemy's lines succeeded in this operation ; it was supported by half the Prince of Anglona's division, the other half remaining on the heights already mentioned, and it should seem, that previous to the movement of the British to that point, which the Spanish Commander thought it necessary to strengthen, General Lapena offered Lieutenant General Graham his option, whether thelatter should move for that purpose widi his corps, or continue posted on the heights ; but the Lieutenant General declining to make an election, the former decided that the reserve should march, leaving two battalions to join the remainder of the Spanish forces, to preserve die position on the heights. In addition, however, to two battalions of Walloon and Cuidad Real guards, Lieutenant General Graham left Colonel Brown's battalions, composed of flank companies, which was posted at the Torre Bar rosa. The Lieutenant General, therefore, had every reason to suppose the General-in-Chief would remain on that position duringt the day. This will be seen by the following extract of a letter from Lieute- 33S 3$kajor aSenerafa. nant General Graham to the Right Honorable Henry Wellesley* dated Isla de Leon, March 24, 181 1. " When the British division began its match from the position of Barrosa to that of Bermeja, I left the General on the Barrosa height, nor did I know of his intention of quitting it, and when I ordered the division to countermarch in the wood, I did so, to support troops left for its defence, and believing the General to be there in person. In this belief I sent no report of the at tack which was made so near to the spot where the General was supposed to be, and confident in the bravery of the British troops, I was not less so in the support I should receive from the Spanish army. The distance, however, to Bermeja is trifling, and no orders were given from head-quarters for the movement of any corps of the Spanish army to support the British division, to pre vent its defeat in this unequal contest, or to profit of the success' earned at so heavy an expense. The voluntary zeal of the two small battalions (Walloon Guards and Cuidad Real) which had been detached from my division, brought them alone back from - the wood ; but notwithstanding their utmost efforts, they could only come up at the close of the action. " Had the whole body of the Spanish cavalry, with the horse artil lery, been rapidly sent by the sea beach, to form in the plain, and to envelope the enemy's left ; had the greatest part of the infantry been marched through the pine wood, in our rear, to turn his right, what success might not have been expected from such de cisive movements ? The enemy must either have retired instantly, and without occasioning any serious loss to the British division, or he would have exposed himself to absolute destruction, his cavalry greatly outnumbered, his artillery lost, his columns mixed and in confusion, a general dispersion would have been the inevitable consequence of a close pursuit. Our wearied men would have found spirits to go on, and would have trusted to finding refreshment at Chiclana. This moment was lost. Within a. quarter of an hour's ride of the scene of action, the General remained ignorant of what was passing, and nothing was done." Lieutenant General Graham's division being halted on the eastern slope of the Barrosa height for about two hours, was marched about twelve o'clock through a wood towards the Torre Bermeja, (cavalry patroles having previouslybeen sent towards Chiclana without meeting with the enemy) ; on the march, the Lieutenant General received notice that the enemy had appeared in force on the plain, and was advancing towards the height of WILLIAM THOMAS DILKES. 337 Barrosa. Lieutenant General Graham Considering the position as the key to that of Santi Petri, immediately countermarched, in order to support the troops left for its defence; and the alacrity with which this manoeuvre was executed, served as a favorable omen. Before the British troops could get entirely disentangled from the wood, the Spanish troops on the Barrosa hill were seen retiring from it, while the enemy's left wing was rapidly ascending, at the same time his right wing stood on the plain on the edge of the wood, within cannon-shot. A retreat in the face of such an enemy, already within reach of the easy communication by the sea bank, must have involved the whole of the allied army in all the danger of being attacked during the unavoidable confusion of the different corps arriving on the narrow edge of Bermeja, nearly at the same time. The British General, therefore, determined on an immediate attack. Major Duncan opened a powerful battery of ten guns on the centre. Brigadier General Dilkes, with his brigade ; Lieutenant Colonel Benin's (of the 28th) flank battalion ; Lieutenant Colonel Norcott's two companies of the rifle corps ; and Major Acheson, with a part of the 67th foot ; (separated from the regiment in the wood) formed on the right. Colonel Wheatley's brigade, with three companies of Coldstream guards, under Lieutenant Colonel Jackson ; and Lieutenant Colonel Bernard's flank battalion ; formed on the left. The right wing proceeded to the attack of General Rutin's division on the hill, while Lieutenant Colonel Bernard's, and Lieutenant Colonel Busche's detachment of 20th Portuguese were warmly engaged on the left with the enemy's tirailleurs. General Laval's division, notwithstanding the havoc made by the battery above mentioned, continued to advance in very imposing masses, opening his fire of musketry, and was only checked by that of the left wing ; the latter now advanced, firing, and a spirited charge made by the three companies of the guards and the 87th regiment, supported by the remainder of the wing, decided the de feat of General Laval's division. Ofthe immediate operations, relating to the right wing, consisting Of the brigade under Brigadier General Dilkes, the following is a correct statement. At the time the troops were halted on the east side of the heights of Barrosa, Lieutenant General Graham's orders were conveyed for Brigadier General Dilkes' brigade, as well as that of Colonel Wheatley, to proceed towards Santi Petri. The column accordingly began its march (left in front Colonel Wheatley's bri* gade leading) over the hill, and, descending the other side, entered a fir wood, so thick as to be almost impracticable to the guns and mounted officers. Brigadier General Dilkes had advanced about a mile, when a staff-officer overtook the brigade, seeking General R. Mil. Col. I. Y 338 lEtajor Generate. Graham, and reporting that the enemy had made his appearance in the plain they had just quitted; it was not understood that the enemy were in considerable force, and the natural impression was to face about, and return to meet him, but it was judged proper to wait the Lieutenant General's orders, which were not long delayed, and the column retraced its steps rear rank in front. Before quite clear of the wood, Brigadier General Dilkes formed his brigade, countermarched the divisions, and a deployment was shortly after completed ; the battalion, styled a detachment, composed of com panies belonging to the Coldstream and 3d guards, forming in second line to the 1st regiment. During tliis movement, on appli cation being made for a party to cover the guns, Brigadier General Dilkes sent three companies of the first-mentioned battalion for that service, which were afterwards employed on the left during the action. The line now advanced obliquely to the right, towards a corps of the enemy, which occupied the heights the British had so lately passed, and a heavy fire of artillery and musketry was kept up on both sides ; but the line continuing their advance with distinguished gallantry, that part of the enemy's force immediately opposed to them was obliged to withdraw towards another corps upon his right. The British still advanced, bringing forward the right shoul ders, and thereby threatening the enemy's left, who at length formed the flank en masse, continuing his retreat down the hill, and ascending another rising ground, halting occasionally, and keeping up a severe destructive fire. At one time the enemy were perceived to push forward two or three divisions from the masse, as was conceived, to charge the British line, but the well-directed fire of our troops, still advancing, obliged him to desist ; and the Bri tish were too exhausted with their difficult march, &c. to return the compliment. Soon after our troops had begun to descend the hill, the enemy's cavalry were observed posted on the left, and it was constantly ex pected that he would charge a weak part of the line ; he had ac tually made a movement seemingly for that purpose. Major General Dilkes, and his Aide-de-Camp, were at this period dis mounted, both their horses having been shot under them. The British cavalry now arrived on the field of action, and immediately charged the enemy, who, after a slight hesitation, advanced to the encounter, both parties meeting at a hand gallop; they mixed, dis persed, and reformed, the enemy retiring, and our hussars pursuing the stragglers. It was about this period the Walloon guards arrived on the right of Brigadier General Dilkes' brigade. WILLIAM THOMAS DILKES. 339 .After the defeat of the enemy's cavalry, he continued to retreat obliquely to his right, still firing, until some artillery being brought up, his complete retreat was decided, and the line received Lieute nant General Graham's Orders to halt. Sir Thomas Graham has borne ample testimony to the distin guished part taken by the guards in this gallant battle. Then, as on every other occasion in which they have been engaged, the con duct of this corps reflected high honor on their commander, and Major General Dilkes has been often heard to express in the warm est terms, his admiration of the gallantry displayed by, and gratitude for the support he received from, every individual of the brigade he had the honour to command. But it was not the first time he had witnessed their bravery ; many had been his associates in former campaigns, and more particularly in the affair of Lincelles, a day every guardsman looks back to with pride and satisfaction. In addition to the medal which this officer was honored with by his sovereign for the share he bore in the battle of Barrosa, he received the thanks of his country in both Houses of Parliament, and the City of London honored him with its freedom, and a sword of the value of one hundred guineas. The following letter, dated 29th of March, 1811, from His Royal Highness the Duke of York to Major General Dilkes, is a further testimonial of the conduct of this officer, and the troops he commanded, in the battle of Barrosa. It is extracted from the brigade orders of the 28th of April. " I take the earliest opportunity in my power of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 9th of March, and of thanking you for your obliging attention in communicating to me thus early, what relates to the distinguished conduct of my gallant old friends, the guards, under your command in the glorious and Severely-contested action of the 5th. While I congratulate you and them on the successful result of an action in which their efforts were so conspicuous, and so deserving of the admiration with which all have viewed them, I cannot conceal my deep feelings of regret, that it has been attended with so severe and painful a loss of officers and men, which upon this occasion, per haps, makes a deeper impression upon me, as many of the latter were old soldiers, and faithful companions, whose meritorious exertions I have myself witnessed, and had occasion to approve upon former occasions. •* I have read with great satisfaction, in Lieutenant General Graham's dispatch, the high and well-earned encomiums bestowed upon your conduct, and that of the officers and men engaged under your command ; and as a brother guardsman (a title of which I shall 340 JEtajor Generate. ever be most proud) and Colonel of the corps, I trust I shall not be considered as exceeding the limits of my station in requesting that you will yourself receive and convey to the brigade under your orders, my sincere and cordial thanks for having so glo riously maintained, and indeed, if possible, raised the high character of a corps in whose success, collectively and indivi dually, I shall never cease to take the warmest interest." Shortly after the action of the 5th of March, the brigade of guards were ordered home, and Brigadier General Dilkes returned to England with them. Previous to his leaving Isla, however, he issued the following brigade orders. Isla, 29th April, 1811. " Brigadier General Dilkes cannot suffer the brigade to be thus broken up without requesting the officers and men will accept his assurances of the high sense he entertains of their general conduct, the cheerful alacrity with which they have discharged their duties upon all occasions, and of the consequent gratifica tion he has derived from a command at all times honorable, but which since the memorable 5th of March, he has felt still more elated with. He now, with pleasure, repeats his admiration of the gallantry exhibited by them on that day — fortunate are those who participated in the glory of it — himself doubly so. To those who continue under his command, the Brigadier General expresses his satisfaction at still retaining them ; to those whd are now separated from him, he offers his assurances of heart felt good wishes for their happiness and success wherever the fortune of war may conduct them." In the brevet of June 1811 this officer was promoted to the rank of Major General, and again had the command of the brigade of guards in London. In this same year a severe domestic ca lamity prevented him accepting a command under Lord Wellington at the moment it was offered him, and it appears that under these circumstances he did not think it right to continue on the Home Staff, from which he obtained permission to retire. Since this period the Major General has not neglected the renewal of 'his offer* of service to the Commander-in-Chief, but they have not been called for. SIR JOHN OSWALD. 3^ S97. Maj. Gen. Henry Rudykrd, Lieutenant Colonel Royal Invalid Engineers. This officer was appointed Practitioner Engineer and Ensign 10th January, 1770; Sub-Engineer and Lieutenant 13th July 1774; Captain Lieutenant 24th January 1781 ; Captain 1st October 1784; Major in the army 6th May 1795; Lieutenant Colonel royal invalid engineers 3d March 1797 ; Colonel in the army 30th October 1805 ; and Major General 4th June 1811. 398. Maj. Gen. Sir John Oswald, Colonel ofthe 1st Greek Light Infantry Corps. This officer was appointed 2d Lieutenant 23rd foot in February 1788; and Lieutenant in the 7th foot in March 1789. He em barked for Gibraltar in July 1790 ; in January 1791 was appoint ed Captain in an independent company ; and in March Captain in the 35th foot; in July 1793 Brigade Major to General Leland, which situation he renounced upon the grenadier company he com manded being ordered for foreign service. He joined the 2d bat talion of grenadiers under Lieutenant Colonel Cradock in Novem ber 1793, embarked for the West Indies, the said battalion form ing a part of the expedition under the late Sir Charles Grey ; was present at the capture of the Islands of Martinique, St. Lucie and Guadaloupe ; personally engaged in the various actions and sieges which that service gave rise to ; from thence he proceeded to St. Domingo under the command of the Duke of Richmond, then Lieutenant Colonel Lenox, went into garrison at Port au Prince, and remained there till it was notified that on account of the loss his company had sustained it was to be drafted, and the officers and non-commissioned officers sent to England. The 1st of April 1797 this officer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the 35th foot, and in 1799 embarked on the expedition for Holland. He commanded his regiment on the 19th of September, where the 1st battalion was long and severely engaged, and. sustained great loss. Th ebattalion was honored with the -approbation of the Com- 342 Itiajor «5eneraIsJ, mander-in-Chief, and the Lieutenant Colonel particularly thanked by the Duke of Gloucester, to whose brigade he belonged. Lieu tenant Colonel Oswald was severely wounded in that action, and obliged to return to England for the recovery of his health. In February 1800 he embarked for the Mediterranean, with the corps under General Pigot, landed in Minorca, and thereafter proceeded to the blockade, and was present at the capture, of Malta. He remained there till the conclusion of the peace of Amiens. On the re-commencement of hostilities in 1804 he repaired to Malta,. and commanded the regiment till May 1805, when he was com pelled to return' to England on account of private affairs, where he remained three months only. In October 1805 he had the brevet of Colonel. He joined . the army under Sir J. Craig in February 1806. Upon the troops landing in Sicily he was appointed Commandant of Melazzo ; in June the same year he embarked with the army under the order of Sir J. Stuart, commanded the advance destined to cover the disem barkation of the troops in St. Eufemia Bay, defeated with great loss a considerable body of the enemy, who attacked the said advance, thereafter appointed to the 3rd brigade of that army, and commanded the same in the battle of Maida, Two days after the action he marched with the said brigade into Lower Calabria, captured about three hundred French prisoners at Monteleone with all the enemy's depof, &c. &c, pushed on by forced marches to the investment of Scylla Castle : the siege thereof was confided to him, and after resisting twenty days it was subdued. He returned to Sicily with the army and was honored by his Excellency Gene ral Fox, with the appointment of Brigadier General in November: this nomination was cancelled by order of the Commander-in Chief. In February 1807 he embarked with the corps under the orders of Major General Fraser for Egypt. Two battalions of the 35th regiment formed into his brigade landed with the first portion of the troops that reached Egypt ; he was entrusted with the command of the party selected for assaulting the forts in Alexr andria, and stormed and carried the Western lines and forts, tak ing a considerable quantity of artillery, and driving the Turks, who defended them, within the walls. The interior forts it was deemed inexpedient to attempt, the place capitulated two days after, and Colonel Oswald proceeded as second in command in the second expedition against Rosetta. After taking up the position before that place within musquet shot of its defence, he was engaged for fifteen days successively in repelling the sorties made by the enemy, when it became necessary to retire in consequence of the Turks having collected a very superior force which nearly sur rounded the British ; the command of the rear guard was reposed SIR JOHN OSWALD. 343 in Colonel Oswald. The retreat was effected without the loss of a gun, store, or prisoner, which it was proposed to move, and was accomplished when completely enveloped by the enemy's infantry and cavalry. Upon the return of the troops to Alexandria, Colonel Oswald was appointed Commandant of that place. When that army withdrew to Sicily he was named by Sir John Moore, Commandant of Augusta : in June 1S08 appointed Brigadier Gene ral in the Mediterranean. In October he was removed to Me- lazzo, where he was second in command of a large force, the instruction of discipline of which was in a great measure confided to him. In 1809 he had the command of the reserve ofthe army destined for Naples ; was ordered to assault the Island of Procida with that corps ; this became unnecessary from its offering to sur- ' render, whereby 500 men and a large proportion of stores were captured ; Brigadier General Oswald was appointed Commandant of Procida. He returned in July to Sicily. In September the same year a force destined to expel the enemy from certain of the Ionian Islands was confided to the command of Brigadier General Oswald. Zante, Cephalonia, Ithaca, and Cerigo, surrendered to the troops under his orders, whereby nearly 1500 of the enemy were taken or dispersed, and several valuable possessions added to the British dominions. For this service Brigadier General Oswald and the corps under his orders, were honored with his Majesty's most gracious approbation. In March 1810, Brigadier General Oswald, sensible of the danger to which the Islands were exposed from the vicinity of the enemy at Santa Maura, collected a force amounting to about 2G00 men and proceeded against that Island, landed on the morning of the 22d, drove the enemy from the town, and his footing in the country, into the strong fortress and entrenchments contiguous thereto. These entrenchments were immediately stormed and carried with considerable loss, the Brigadier General personally leading the troops into the one most formidable, and establishing his foreposts within 500 paces of the body of the place. On the 16th of April, after eight days open trenches, the fortress capitulated. The enemy losing in killed, wounded, made prisoners and dispersed above 1600 soldiers, with about 60 pieces of cannon and every species of stores in proportion. In this command, in addition to the military duties, Brigadier General Oswald was charged with the whole civil administration pf the different Islands, which upon the enemy's surrendering them, were left without any frame of government. In June 1810 this officer had the honor to receive through the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department the Prince Regent's acknowledgments of his services at the siege of St. Maura, directing him at the same time to convey the same to the officers and soldiers 344 IBajor «5enaaljS. who had acted under him upon that occasion. The letter was couch ed in strong terms of approbation. During this year the Brigadier General perfected the organization of the civil and military local governments of the Ionian Isles ; he likewise established an ad vantageous intercourse with the neighbouring Turkish Pachas, and by the conduct of his government confirmed the favorable pre possessions which the Greeks generally entertained towards the British name and government. At the commencement of 1811 he solicited permission to quit tlie Mediterranean Staff, with the view of representing, personally, to His Majesty's government the im portance of the Ionian Isles ; the facility with which these posses sions, valuable in themselves, and doubly so from the consequences likely to accrue by our permanently establishing an influence over them, might be retained. The llth February 1811 'this officer was appointed Colonel of the Greek light infantry, a corps he had formed and organized chiefly from the prisoners of that nation taken from the enemy's service. Upon quitting the Ionian Isles, Brigadier General Oswald re ceived from the inhabitants of the islands addresses expressive of their sense of the benefits which the several isles had derived from his administration of their affairs, and from the happy change in their situation which he had been instrumental in bringing about ; each of these addresses was accompanied with an appropriate gift. The 4th June 1811 he received the rank of Major General \ and in November was placed on the Staffof the Western District. Major General Oswald had the good fortune during that com mand, by the exertion of the military, to re-establish the peace of the city of Bristol, and to preserve from destruction the house of its worthy member, R. Hart Davis, Esq. endangered by the fury of a mob stimulated to mischief by seditious harangues. In August Major General Oswald was nominated to the Peninsular Staff; he joined the army under Marquess Wellington on the 22nd October, and accompanied his Lordship during the severe cavalry affair of the 23rd and 24th ; placed in command of the 5th divi sion of the army, vacant in consequence of Lieutenant General Leith's being wounded. He joined the 5th division on the 25th, and took the command of the left of the army, at the moment when warmly engaged, both at Villa Morilla and Palencia ; had also to direct and manoeuvre a strong corps of Spaniards during that hard fought day ; after various success and our, at one time, losing the banks of the Carrian and the village of Villa Manalle it terminated, by our regaining the former ground and driving the enemv with great loss from that village ; where, in consequence of the bridge being blown up, he suffered much in re-crossing the river. SIR JOHN OSWALD. • 345 On the 29th October he commanded the heavy column, com posed of the 5th division, two Portuguese brigades, and a corps of Spaniards, that retreated by Tudela, and, on the Slst, rejoined the main body of the army encamped before Tordesilias ; continued to conduct the 5th division during the remainder of the arduous retreat, and had the satisfaction to place it, with little comparative loss, in cantonments on the Douro ; thereafter returned to Britain. In«May he joined the army on taking the field, and assumed the command of the 5th division forming a portion of the left column under the orders of Lieutenant General Sir T. Graham. He direct ed that division during the masterly march through the North of Portugal and the Spanish provinces of Zemora, Leon, and Palen- cia, till it crossed the Ebro. On the 17th June the left column came in contact with an enemy's corps in the march through the village of Osma, which it fell to the lot of the 5th division to attack and drive back with considerable loss. The left column continued its route by a mountainous country (hitherto deemed impervious to troops with artillery) and, by accomplishing this difficult operation, the 20th June, found that the corps was placed on the great road from Durango to Vittoria, so as to a certain degree envelope the enemy's line at the latter place. Upon the morning of the 21st the column received a sudden order to march by its right, certain pre parations for cooking had commenced, and the 1st division reported that some time must elapse before it could conveniently quit the ground ; Major General Oswald reported the 5th ready, and ac cordingly that division did take the lead, and thereby came in for a full share of the honors of that glorious day. Major General Oswald was charged with all the troops composing the advance of the left column, consisting of Brigadier General Park's brigade of Portuguese, Colonel Longa's Spanish division, a squadron of Major General Anson's brigade of cavalry, and the 5th division. With these troops he attacked and drove the enemy from the heights, which, in considerable force, he had begun to occupy, covering the Zadora : upon gaining them the enemy was observed expedi tiously strengthening his line upon that river, particularly by re inforcing his posts of Gamara Maior, and Minor, the former held as a tete-de-pont: to Major General Oswald was confided the attack upon them. He directed Colonel Longa's corps to move upon Minor, with orders, however, not to commence the attack until the success of that made upon Maior (the chief post) was plainly ascertained. This assault was entrusted to Brigadier Ge neral Robinson's brigade ; Major General Oswald formed h into three columns of batt. ; the 4th regiment, led by the Brigadier General, attacked in front by the road, the 59th by the left of the village, the 47th by the right; the 1st brigade and Brigadier Gene- 3«j Mwt Generals!. ral Sprye's were brought up to support and reinforce the attack if required. Gamara Maior was defended with obstinacy ; the enemy suf fered greatly from the simultaneous attack of the columns, and lost many men whilst retreating across the bridge. The Major General entered at the head of the 59th regiment ; the troops were thrown into considerable disorder from the nature of the ground, mode of attack, and from the enemy's immediately bring ing a quantity of artillery upon the village, under cover of.^which they, in a most determined manner, three times attempted to re take the bridge and post. A portion of the 1st brigade was brought into the village, and the Portuguese were placed to its right in order to repel any attack from that point. The enemy reinforced his right, opposite to Gamara Maior, with much promptitude ; had force sufficient been brought up to enable the division to pass the bridges on that day, prisoners might have been made fully in proportion to the cannon taken : as it is, the trophies of the day were obtained chiefly, as Lord Wellington states, in consequence of the left attack ; and it may be further averred, that the 5th division (as the return of casualties proves) was the portion of the left chiefly engaged. The 5th division remained for nearly three hours in the village of Gamara under a heavy concentrated fire of artillery ; and, it was not till the right of the army advanced through Vittoria, it was enabled to cross the Zadora, and join in the pursuit. Two days after the battle the 5th division was detached in pursuit of Clausel ; but afterwards rejoined the left column, on the 10th July, at Ernaiie. The 5th division was ordered to relieve the irregular Spanish troops attempting to blockade the fortress of St. Sebastian's, and the-charge of the left and hazardous attack was confided to Major General Oswald. The river Oxumia separated the troops on the right from the fortress, so that they were nearly cut off from the enemy : all his outworks and communications were to the left ; and, consequently, it was in that quarter that sallies were to be apprehended. The enemy held a strongly fortified convent, and was constructing a redoubt contiguous to it about 800 paces in from the place. The attack of these posts fell to the Major General ; after a smart affair they were carried, the convent occupied, and troops placed on the ravine of the redoubt. This service was applauded by. the Lieutenant General, and the Major General's conduct noticed in terms of high commendation. On 24th July a breach in the body of the place was deemed by the Engineers practicable, and the assault was confided to Major General Oswald with the 5th division, and some Portuguese light troops. It is right to SIR JOHN OSWALD. 3*7 premise that, when the project of attack was discussed, the Major General fully stated his objections ; it appeared to him, in the first place, that, having only one point of attack, and the outworks cov ering, the length and exposed approach to it remaining entire, it be came almost impracticable to bring up troops in that compact order required for so great an effort ; 2dly, that, from the plan of the works, corroborated by all information, the carrying, the breach, and even entering it, by no means gave possession of the town ; for that from the breached curtain a descent of at least 20 feet, into a cut off low street, riot only commanded by the retrench ment the enemy had formed, but likewise looked into by the ra vine of the very elevated curtain forming the front of the place; that, accordingly, he could not entertain hopes of success unless some feasible method of carrying that key to the whole was pointed out. The troops were formed for the assault on the 24th, but the ¦quantity of burning matter placed in the breach caused it to be sus pended till the day following. The Major General again took occasion to represent to the Lieutenant General the insufficiency of ofir means for carrying the place, and in a long discussion with the commanding Engineer renewed his objections to the proposed mode of attack. On the 25th the, assault was given ; the explosion of the mine occupied the enemy so much for a moment, that the head of ' the narrow-fronted column got to the breach with less loss than could have been calculated, but they were checked by the, to them un looked-for, descent, and the enemy instantaneously occupying the unimpaired flank defences, opened a most destructive fire upon those at the breach, and likewise upon the reinforcements from the trenches, who in vain attempted to get along the narrow flanked and enfiladed path which led to it. The attempt was impracticable, -and had manifestly failed the moment the enemy showed a deter mination to defend the breach : all that could be done was to stop a further useless effusion of blood by recalling the troops. The loss on this occasion was very severe. Notwithstanding the siege being converted into a blockade, and the heavy artilleiy being embarked, the approaches, parallels, and trenches, almost to the crest of the glacis, were still ordered to be held, which occasioned a very arduous and harassing service to the troops under the Major General's command. The guards in these advances were exposed to continued sallies, and under the com manding fire of an unimpaired front, it was impossible to give them that prompt and adequate support, which the immediate vicinity of the enemy required. This severe and anxious duty, occasioning a heavy loss daily, continued till the 24th August, when active S4S JKlajor ufcenerate. operations re-commenced, the immediate direction whereof fell to the Major General. The attack was now carried on upon an extended scale ; heavy batteries were placed on the left, and both the outworks that com mand the approach, and the flank of the curtain itself, were partly destroyed and breached. On the 30th, when all was prepared for renewing the assault, Lieutenant General Sir James Leith arrived at the Camp to resume his command of the 5th division. On that night the projet for the assault was discussed, and Major General Oswald was called to assist in the arrangement of it. Lieutenant General Leith further expressed his wish to have the Major General's aid in carrying on the attack ; and, in consequence of that request, and Sir Thomas Graham's desire, Major General Oswald did volunteer his services at the assault. It may be necessary to observe that the difficulty with which the fortress of St. Sebastian was carried, notwithstanding the augment ed means brought against it, confirmed the justness of the objec tions made to the first mode of attack. Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Graham thus noticed the conduct of the Major General during the forementioned siege : "*« Your Lordships will now permit me to caU your attention to the conduct of that distinguished officer, Major General Oswald, who has had the temporary command of the 5th division, in Lieu tenant General Leith's absence, during the whole of the camp aign, and who resigned the command on the 30th instant. Hav ing carried on the laborious duties of the left attack with inde fatigable attention, no person was more capable of giving Lieu tenant General Leith the best information ; this Sir James Leith acknowledges he did with a liberality and zeal for the service highly praise-worthy, and he continued his valuable services to the last, by acting as a volunteer, and accompanying the Lieuten ant General to the trenches on the occasion of the assault. I have infinite satisfaction in assuring your Lordship of my perfect ap probation of Major General Oswald's conduct ever since the 5th division formed a part of the left column of the army." The command of the 5th division fell to Major General Hay upon Lieutenant General Leith's wound, but it was again conferred upon Major General Oswald. Upon the 10th November he com manded the division when the enemy's foreposts, in front of St. Jean de Luz, were driven in during the night, he occupied the Fort de Senoa, the day after pursued the enemy through St. Jean de Luz ; and upon the 13th he established the posts of the division in. front of Bedart, and placed it in cantonments immediately adjoining WILLIAM DOYLE. 349 thereto upon the great road to Bayonne ; there, under the direction of Lieutenant General Sir John Hope, he commanded the out-posts and was unremittingly employed in making such arrangements as would admit of the troops being speedily assembled to repulse the attack, to which he foresaw, from the vicinity to the fortress and bridge at Bayonne, that portion of the army was most particularly exposed. But a variety of domestic calls and misfortunes compelled him to solicit a temporary leave, and ultimately, upon the death of a near relation, to return to Britain. In reward of his various military actions, Major General Oswald has been twice honored with his Sovereign's gracious acknowledg ment of services, in which he held chief command ; and three times for those in which he held a subordinate station ; twice by name he obtained the thanks of Parliament ; he was not nominally included in the vote for the battle of Maida, because, though commanding a brigade, he only at the time held the rank of Colonel. He also bears three medals, one for Maida, one for Vittoria, and one for the siege of St. Sebastian's ; and is one of the Knights Commanders of the Bath. 399. Maj. Gen. James M. Hadden, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artillery 7th July 1779; Captain 7th March 1784; Major in the army 1st March 1794; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 9th April 1797; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 14th October 1801 ; Co lonel in the army 30th October 1 805 ; Colonel in the royal artil lery 1st June 1806; and Major General 4th June 1811. He served on the staff at Chatham in 1814. 400. Maj. Gen. William Doyle, Late Lieutenant Colonel in the 62nd Foot. This officer was appointed Ensign in the 24th foot in July 1774, and in March 1776 he embarked for Canada ; he served the cam- 350 l&ajor <8enetai£. paign of that and the following year with the advanced corps of the army. In October 1776 he was promoted to a Lieutenantcy ; he was present in every principal action in which the northern army was engaged, and was wounded at nearly the close of the campaign 1777, which terminated in the convention of Saratoga. This officer was detained prisoner till exchanged in 1781, and then returned to England. In July 1787 he succeeded to a company, and in 1789 again embarked with his regiment for Canada. In May 1795 he received the brevet of Major, and the 27th July 1797 was appointed Deputy Adjutant General in Canada, and Lieut. Col. in the army. He remained in Canada until promoted, in July 1803, to a Majority in the 9th battalion of reserve, and shortly after joining that battalion was appointed an Assistant Ad jutant General on the Irish Establishment. The 16th August 1804 he received the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 62d ; 30th Oc tober 1805 the rank of Colonel ; and 4th June 1811 Major Gene ral. This officer is now serving on die staff-in Ireland, where he has been for some time. 401. Maj. Gen. John Hatton, Late Lieutenant Colonel in the 66th Foot. Appointed Ensign 66th foot 29th June 1780; Lieutenant 16th July 1782 ; Captain 21st July 1783. With the latter rank this officer served in the West Indies eight years, and at Gibraltar nearly three years. The 2d September 1795 he obtained a Majo rity in his regiment, and commanded it in the attack of Leogane, St. Domingo. The 17th August 1797 he was pppointed Lieute nant Colonel in the 66th, and served as such in North America, and in India. The 30th October 1805 he received the brevet of Colonel, and in September 1807 he returned from India and was appointed to the staff in Alderney in 1808. The 4th June 1811 this officer received the rank of Major General. He is now serving on the staff at Perth. PINSON BONHAM. S51 402. Maj. Gen. Pinson Bonham, Late Major in the 69th Foot. The 24th April 1789 this officer was appointed to an Ensigncy in the 4th battalion 60th foot, and joined his regiment in the West Indies ; received a Lieutenantcy in the 3d battalion the 26th Jan. 1791. The 9th June 1793 he obtained a company in 4th batta lion 60tii, and in 1794 exchanged into the 69th and was appointed Major of Brigade to General Cuyler, second in command. In 1795 he was appointed Major of the 2d battalion 82d foot, re duced on full pay, and continued Major of brigade until transferred to the 2d battalion 69th the SOth May 1797. The 9th Septem ber 1797 he received the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel, and served at Martinique as secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, General Cuyler, and afterwards as Deputy Quarter Master General, in which situation he continued till the SOth September 1805, when he was appointed Colonel by brevet ; the 25th August 1807 Bri gadier General, and the 4th June 1S11 Major General. This officer has served twenty one years in the West Indies, during which he has had one leave of absence of six months to ne- gociate for his company. He was ten years Deputy Quarter Mas ter General, during which he was three times at the head of the department, by deaths and removals, and transacted all the duties of it for several months at each time. He also acted as chief on the two expeditions under General Grenfield, one against St. Lu cie and Tobago, the other against Deniarara and Berbice. On the latter he was second in command. In the peace of 1802 he had six months' leave of absence, which was not completed before he was again ordered to the West Indies, where he arrived in time to be present at the storming of Morne Fortunee, St. Lucie, on the night of 2d June 1803. He has served in every colony, English, Spanish, Dutch and French, within the Leeward Island command : he commanded the troops in the islands of Dominica and St. Kitt's, and is now on the staff at Surinam. 352 JRajor iBenerate. 403. Maj. Gen. John Burnet, i Lieutenant Colonel ofthe late llth Garrison Battalion. The 26th July 1762 this officer received an Ensigncy in the 28th, while serving in the navy at the Havannah ; the 8th March 1764 a Lieutenantcy in the 28th; and the 21st April 1768 a Lieute nantcy in the 8th foot. He served in the American war. The 12th December 1781 he was appointed Captain Lieutenant in the 8th foot, and the 31st October 1792 Captain in the 43rd. He Was at the siege of Martinique, St. Lucie, and Guadaloupe, in the expedition under Sir Charles Grey, and appointed Deputy Judge Advocate to that officer's army, and- latterly Assistant Quarter- Master-General. He was at the storm of Fort Flem D'Epee, and on the attack of Point a Petre in Guadaloupe, was wounded in the right arm, on which account he quitted the army and returned to England ; he has not since been on foreign service. The 1 st ' March 1794 he was appointed Brevet Major ; the 13th May 1795 Major of the 43rd; in 1796 an inspecting field officer of the recruiting service; the 14th September 1797 Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th; in 1800 superintendant of hospitals; the 31st Octo ber 1804 he exchanged into the 1st foot and was placed on half pay of the llth Garrison Battalion the 27th February 1808 ; the 10th October 1805 he received the rank of Colonel, and that of Major General the 4th June 1811. He has since served on the staff in Ireland. 404. Maj. Gen. Sir William Anson, Late a Captain in 1st Foot Guards. This officer commenced his military career the 13th June 1789 as an Ensign in the 1 st foot guards. He served on the continent with his regiment from the 25th February to the 25th April 1 793 when he received a Lieutenantcy in his regiment with the rank of Captain and returned home. He again went to the continent and served from the 1st April 1794 until the return of the army in May 1795 ; the 28th September 1797 he obtained a company with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He embarked for Sicily the 25th July 1806 and there served till the 4th January 1808 when he G. W. RAMSAY. 353 came home. The 1 3th October 1 806 he received the rank of Colo nel in the army. The 9th September 1808 he embarked for Spain, and returned the 30th January 1809. He was present at the battle of Coruna. The 16th July 1809 he embarked in the expedition to Zealand and returned the 14th September 1809. The 4th June 1811 he received the rank of Major General. He subsequently served on the staff under Lord Wellington in the Peninsula, and is one of the Knights Commanders of the Mili tary Order of the Bath. 405. Maj. Gen. J. Bouchier, Lieutenant Colonel in the late Royal Irish Artillery. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the late Royal Irish Artillery 1st October 1783 ; he obtained his commission of Captain and of Major in the same corps, the latter the 20th May 1795 ; was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the corps of officers of the late Royal Irish Artillery, allowed to retire on full-pay, 1st October 1797; Colonel in the army 30th October 1805 ; and Major General 4th June 1811. 406. Maj. Gen. G. W. Ramsay, Late Lieutenant Colonel in the 60th Foot. This officer was Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of the late York Rangers 25th May 1795 ; Lieutenant Colonel SOth December 1797; Colonel in the army SOth October 1805 ; and Major Ge neral 4th June 1811. This officer has served on the staff in the West Indies, and was Adjutant General in the Leeward Islands. At present, he is stationed at St. Croix. R. Mil. Cal. 354 Hajot *3eneraIjS. 407. Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Howorth, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. THls officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artillery 7th July 1779 ; Captain 1st December 1782 ; Major in the army 1st March 1794; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1798; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 18th April 1801 ; Colo nel in the royal artillery 29th December 1805 ; arid Major General 4th June 1811. This officer has served in the Peninsula, and is one of the Knight Commanders of the Bath.- 408. Maj. Gen. J. Dorrien, Lieutenant Colonel Royal Horse Guards, (blue). The 2d May 1783 this officer was appointed Cornet in the royal reg. of horse guards; 12th October 1786 Lieutenant; 14th May 1790 Captain ; Major by brevet in 1797 ; Major in the royal horse guards 25th October 1799; Lieutenant Colonel 25th December 1799; Colonel by brevet 18th January 1806 ; and Major General 4th June 181 1. In 1795 he served with his regiment in Germany. 409. Maj. Gen. Thomas Desbrisay, Colonel Royal Artillery. This officer entered the service as 2d Lieutenant of Artillery the llth November 1773. In 1775 four companies of artillery were ordered for Boston, in one of which he was posted. The troops sailed from St. Helen's the 14th September, and arrived at their destination the 1 1th November following. This officer re mained in America during the war, and returned to England in Sep tember 1784. The 7th July 1779 he obtained his commission as 1st Lieutenant; the 21st November 1783 that of Captain Lieutenant, WILLIAM FYERS. 3o6 In June 1789 he was again ordered to America, and he remained there until 1801 ; during which period he commanded the royal artillery at.Newfoundland, Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and in both Canadas ; was four years at St. John's, N. F. between 7 and 8 at Halifax, the remainder at Quebec. The 17th January 1793 he ob tained his commission as Captain; the 1st March 1794 he received the brevet rank of Major; the 1st January 1798 that of Lieu tenant Colonel ; and the 2d October. 1799 he was appointed Major in the royal regiment of artillery. On the 7th February 1803 He embarked on board the Windham East Indiaman in command of three companies of artillery, for the island of Ceylon, and returned to this country in September 1807. The 1st June 1806 he was appointed Colonel in the royal artillery; in 1810 he was appointed to the command of the artillery at Exeter, where he continued till the 4th June 1811, which comrhand he was then obliged to relinquish, being appointed Major Genera}, 410. Maj. Gen. Charles Terrot, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artillery 7th July 1779 •, Captain in the artillery 7th March 1784 ; Major in the army 1st March 1794; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1798 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 14th Oc tober 1801 ; Colonel in the royal artillery 1st June 1806; and Major General 4th June 181 1. 411. Maj. Gen. William Fyers, Commanding Royal Engineers in Ireland. This officer commenced his military duties as Ensign in the Corps of engineers, the 8th November- 1773, at the new works on Ports mouth Common. On the 1 1th of the same month he received his commission as 2d Lieutenant. From Portsmouth he was ordered in the year 1774, to Plymouth. In the year 1775 he joined the 356 3&ajor Generate. army under Sir William Howe, at Boston. He served in that country during the whole of the American war, and was present at most ofthe principal actions which occurred in it, viz. The bat tle of Brooklyn, the landing on New York Island, in the Jerseys, the battle of Brandywine, taking of Philadelphia, siege and capture of Charlestown, &c. For a year after the Peace, he was stationed at Halifax in Nova Scotia. He obtained his commission as 1st Lieutenant the 7th May 1779; and as Captain Lieutenant the 20th April 1787. He returned from Halifax to England, and was employed in tlie Portsmouth district till the year 1788, when he was ordered to Gibraltar ; in which garrison, he afterwards succeeded General Morse as Commanding Engineer, and remained in that situation 12 years, viz. till the year 1807, when he was ordered to England, and appointed Deputy Inspector General of Fortifications. Whilst at Gibraltar, this officer received the fol lowing commissions : Captain 27th November 1793; Major by brevet 6th May 1795 ; Lieutenant Colonel ditto 1st January 1800 ; Lieutenant Colonel royal engineers 1st July 1800; Colonel ditto 1st July 1806. In 1809, whilst holding the office of Deputy In spector General of Fortifications, he served as Colonel and Com manding Engineer with the expedition to Walcheren and South Beveland, &c. The 4th June 1811 he received the rank of Major General ; and the same year he was appointed to his present station as Commanding Engineer in Ireland. Major General Fyers has been constantly on duty since he first entered the army. ' 412. Maj. Gen. G. GLASGOW, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artillery 7th July 1779; Captain 29th December 1784 ; Major in the army 6th May 1795; Lieutenant Colonel in the army the 1st January 1800; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 25th De cember 1801 ; Colonel in the royal artillery 24th July 1806; and Major General 4th June 1811. He has served on the staff in Canada, and where he continues at present. E. STEHELIN. 357 413. Maj. Gen. Robert Winter, Colonel Commandant en Second in the Royal Marines. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in. the royal marines 20th June 1776 ; Captain 14th July 1780 ; Major in the army 1st .March 1794; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1798; Lieutenant Colonel and Captain in the royal marines 1st July 1803 ; Colonel Commandant en Second in the royal marines 24th Sep tember 1806 ; Major General 4th June 1811. 414. Maj. Gen. William Bentham, Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artillery 7th July 1779; Captain 28th June 1786; Major in the army 6th May 1795; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 1st January 1800; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 17th May 1803 ; Colonel in the royal artillery 13th January 1807 ; and Major General 4th June 1811. 415. Maj. Gen. E. Stehelin. Colonel in the Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artillery 7th July 1779; Captain 12th March 1789; Major in the army 26th January 1797 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 29th April 1802 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 1st September 1803 ; Colonel in the royal artillery 1st February 1808 ; and Major Ge neral 4th June 1811. This officer has subsequently served on the staff at Barbadoes, and where at present he continues. sss .major dBeneraljJ. 416. Maj. Gen. John Augustus Schalch, Colonel in th/ Royal Artillery. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artillery 7th July 1779; Captain 13th March 1789; Major in the army 26th January 1797 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 29th April 1802 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 12th September 180S ; Colonel in the royal artillery 1st February 1808; and Major Ge neral 4th June 1811, 417. Maj. Gen. Henry Hutton. This officer was appointed 1st Lieutenant in the royal artillery 7th July 1779 ; Captain 21st May 1790 ; Major in the army 26th January 1797; Lieutenant Colonel in the army 29th April 1802 ; Lieutenant Colonel in the royal artillery 12th September 1803; Colonel in the royal artillery 1st February 1808 ; and Major Gene ral 4th June 1811, 418. Maj. Gen. T. Barrow, Lieutenant Colonel 5th West India Regiment. In 1772 this officer obtained an Ensigncy in the 16th foot; he joined at Pensacola in West Florida ; in 1776 he received a Lieu tenantcy ; and in 1778 a company in the 3rd battalion' 60th foot. He served at the taking of Savannah in Georgia under Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the 7 1st regiment who commanded the expedition. The beginning ofthe year 1779 he was appointed Major of brigade to Major General Prevost, and was present in that capacity at the defeat of the rebels at Briar Creek in Georgia, and subsequently at the siege of Savannah. He served also at the siege and surrender of Charles Town in South Carolina, under the command of Sir Henry Clinton. The following year he returned to the regiment at St. Augustine in East Florida. T. BARROW. 350 From thence the regiment was ordered to New York, where he remained in service until the evacuation of that country. In 1782 he obtained leave of absence to return to England, and whilst there, owing to extreme ill health, was obliged to go on half pay. He continued on it two years and a half during the peace, and then joined the 63rd regiment (as Captain) in Ireland, from whence he proceeded with the regiment to the continent, and served under the command of the Duke of York, uptil the British troops were withdrawn from it. In 1795 he was appointed Major ofthe 5th West India regiment, and immediately proceeded to Jamaica to join that corps. In 1796 he was appointed by the Earl of Bal- carres, then Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Jamaica and its dependencies, to take the command of the British settlement of Honduras on the Spanish main, as His Majesty's Superintendant and Commandant, with the local rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He held these situations when attacked by a Spanish fleet and army under the command of Field Marshal Senor Don Artruro O'Neale in 1798; who were repulsed, and for which service he received His .Majesty's approbation conveyed to him by His Grace the 'Duke of Portland, then minister for the colonial and war depart ment. In 1779 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th West India regiment, and relieved from those situations in 1800 by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Richard Bassett, and in conse quence of such arrangement he was ordered to England to settle his public accounts. He was re-appointed in 1801, holding the same powers, and with the additional local rank of Colonel ; and at the same time removed to the 5th West India regiment then stationed at Honduras. He remained thereuntil 1804 when he was relieved, in consequence of a violent attack of the yellow fever, and returned to England., TheJZSth April 1808 he received "the brevet of Colonel, and in March 1809 a letter of service as Brigadier General on the staffof the Windward and Leeward Cha- ribbee Islands, and on his arrival there, was appointed to the mili tary command of the Island of St. Christopher's ; and subsequently commanded the second brigade of the army under Lieutenant General Sir George Beckwith on the expedition against Guada loupe. Since this period this officer has been in the West Indies, and is now stationed at St. Eustatia. He received the rank of Major General the 4th June 1811. 35o IKajot «5eneraIjJ. 419. Maj. Gen. J. S. Farley, i Lieutetiant Colonel ofthe 68th Foot. Appointed Ensign 68th foot 21st April 1768; he served with his regiment in Antigua, and succeeded to a Lieutenantcy 30th March 1772. In July he proceeded to St, Vincent's, where he served till the reduction of the Charibs in 1773, and then returned to England. The 9th October 1778 he was promoted to a Com pany. In November 1785 he proceeded to Gibraltar, where he did duty till November" 1794, and then returned to England. In September 1794 he had the brevet of Major; and in 1795 was appointed to a Majority in the 68th, which he joined at Martinique in May of that year, and accompanied it in July to Grenada, and assisted in reducing the revolted inhabitants ; after which, in 1796, he returned with the regiment to England. In 1798 he received the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel; and 1st March 1800 the Lieu-* tenant Colonelcy of his regiment. In January of the latter year he landed with the 68th at Martinique, from whence he accom panied it to Barbadoes, where it remained till June 1803, and then embarked for St. Lucie. He was present at the storming of Morne Fortunee, where he was afterwards left in garrison with his regiment till February 1805 ; when it was removed to St. Vin cent's, and thence to Antigua, where it did duty till July 1806, and then returned to England. The 25th April 1808 he received the brevet of Colonel; and in July 1810 was appointed Brigadier General ; the 4th Jane ion i*<= i^dved the rank of Major Gene? ral. Major General Farley has been subsequently appointed to the Staff at Jamaica, where he continues to serve. END OF VOL. r. YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 9002 03537 3852