The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-02-07 00:00:00

. THE STATESMAN. esenisilimissiireakkamo++ ll . l. g i ven the most serious consideration to the objections of variance urged by the Traverser's Council. In. (Iced, he said, the Judges had given the point refer red for their opinion, such long and serious delibe. ration, it was that which had occupied their attention until that hour. He did not think it necessary to occupy their time further, than to inform them that the Judges were unanimously against the objections offered on behalf of the Traverser. He thought it right to say, that Judge Mafea was not present, as Is in the country. The Arronmex-Ggxecte said, that he had some ,mportant matter to communicate to the Court, if . it were not otherwise engaged. In the case of the Kl4O Th KlawAN : as he found that the Court wonld not sit on Wednesday, and that Thursday Lad been appointed for the trial of Lord Fist:ate, he would thee move, that the verdict, in his case, should be set aside on the collateral issue, and that Mr. KIRWAN should be brought up to-morrow for judgment. Judge Dae.--Is not the Traverser entitled to four days, Mr. Arrotortx-GENERAL?-11e is, my Lord ; but, as Wednesday is an idle day, and Thursday be. iog appointed for my Lord Ft: wails trial, he said, be believed when he offered what he had to say on that point, that the Trave er himself would acquiesce in his proposal. He did not intend to offer any ob servation which might appear an aggratation of the Traverser's offence,or to call for any severe punishment; he would go no further than the justice of the case.— The Government of the ceuetry had taken into its con sideration all the merits of the business, and they were stoi.tied that enough had been done to satisfy the ends of justice and the public at jarge. It was the earnest hope of Government, that enough had been done to restore peace and public order in the country. lie bad great pleasure, therefore, in stating, that as it was not at an the intention of the Government to act with any degree of severity, in the present in stance, and lie would net proceed with any other trial for offences committed against the Convention Act. It could not enter his mind, for a moment, that all those Gentlemen who, he was persuaded had honourable and legitimate objects in view, would encourage proceedings which had an evident tenden cy to disturb the lower orders in society. The Go rernmeet was satisfied that every thing had been done which was necessary to satisfy the suds of pub. justice;lip and if any person, mistaking that spirit of lenity and conciliation, which it than displayed, for any other feeling, should be found hardy enough to transgress the law, he would find the strength and firmness of Government would be exerted for his punishment. He concluded by observing, that the Duke of Itacestorte's conduct had always been that of conciliation, and that his Majesty's Government felt that the object it had in view would be more effectually accomplished by a lenient than a rigour. ous conduct, more particularly as no malt could now plead ignorance on the subject : both the law and the fact having been established by a Jury.—Mr. Gone asked him, would he enter a noli prosequl in the different cases ? he answered in the affirmative, and that he had not leisure to proceed In the At tachments against the different Printers until to morrow. The great length of the Parliamentary Debates, and other important matters, have hitherto prevented m from adverting to the proceedings of the Meet ing, held last week at Lincoln, upon the subject of National Education. it seems that it was matter of astonishment at that place, that the Bishop of the Diocese, who, in coajunetion with the Lord Lieu tenant, railed a Meeting of the County, did not attend. But his absence was surety less a matter of astonishment than that he should have been made a Bishop. All Cambridge would probably laugh, were we to assert that it was in consequence, either of , ritraoidirtary piety or extraordinary talents, that the mitre watt bestowed upon him. It is very well know. that his benefactor, the late Mr. Pirr, to whom this Bishop was first Tutor and then Private Secretary, never pretended to piety ; that he despised all talents but his own, and that his science was confined entirely to the tactics of both !louses of Parliament, the muster-roll of which he "Ad perfectly at heart : Dr. PRETTYMAN, it is well known, was the Private Secretary of the First Lord of the Treasury ; and it is also well known, that Private Secretaries arc to First Ministers what Towyseao, and the other coafideutial gentlemen in )low-street, are to the Police Magistrates, and' know to a :tied) , every gang, and every man in ach gang. What pretensions this kind of know kdge can give to lawn sleeves, we are at a Toss to conceive, though we are tolerably well read in Church History. But that a man should hare been made a Bishop for having officiated, first as a preceptor, and afterwards as an amanuensis and runner to a First Lord of the Treasury, is saying little in favour of the established religion, and does not appear to be the most orthodox way of support. ing it. We know nothing of Lord Baowymow, who opened the ball, and apologized for the absence of Lis Colleague, who ought, as a Bishop, to have takes the lead in a matter so intimately blended with the duties of his profession, and that had for its mewed object no less the salvation of his flock than the eel.' tiration of their minds. The Lord Lieutenant of the 1 O qty appears on this occasion to have been a tool or instrument in the hands of this extra o.dilary Right Reverend Father in God ; and, to repeat a melancholy truth well known to all of 161 US ) this is net the first babbled in *Neil a Layman. h as been made the cat s sepow of a Print' A meeting summoned by the Lord Lieutenant of the county ) it was thought, would give it an eclat ) and ensure it a full attendance. The signature of the Bishop Could not be pro forma, for his name is as unimportant as it is in itself laughable. It can, therefore, be only considered as an Episcopal Mandate to the Clergy to attend, and those who are not deaf to their interests, could not avoid hearing the Great TOM lof Lincoln when he tolled ; the signature of Lord BnowNLow was meant to assemble the Laity. The whole of that' day's proceedings have a curious complexion.—A hue and cry has gone forth in the country that the Mother Church in danger. In 180 7 , the clamour was l e velled solely at the Catholics, in complaisance to the faction in power, who first raised the cry against them. In 1812, it is against every description of Dis- Senters; and, the Clergy of what we think is called rather profanely, the National Religion, as if Eng land had a God of its owu! are all of them roused from their love of titles and of the chace, and are now wonderfully active in rallying round what they have so long neglected. They have started Doctor BELL, a. very deserving Clergyman in. .Dersetshire, against JOSEPH Lancar.-ca.—..-116- gotry, assovidear lise nano of oseheam, ftepplikk the former. Liberality and benevolence sustalor the latter. The Quaker, whose religion, stripe of all the buffoonery as well as all the hypo crisy of priestcraft, is a voucher of his integrity, has been accused by the clergy of having purloined his plan from the Churchman BILL ; and really the fate of this Dorsetshire Parson appears peculari! hard, for Doctor Jvireen, it seems, also - stole thk idea of Vaccine Inoeulation from him, trumpeted forth its virtues, and bamboozled Parliament or of X 30,000, for what never cost him any thin] more than the mere writing of puffs and paragraphs But to return to Lincoln, over which it is pretended the Devil is taking a second peep. A meeting publicly convened, at the instance of the Bishop the Diocese, for the avowed purpose of protecting the established religion of the country, by educatinf the infant poor in its principles ; and it was fair to expert that this Reverend Father in God, as he Is kind of Field Officer in the hierarchy, would ban been first at his pest, especially as it was peculiar! , incumbent on him to take the lead, not only in thk c...pacity of Bi s hop and Metropolitan of the Diocese, but as the principal person at whose request the county was assembled. Surely, if the fears of the Bishop for his Cathedral and fat Deanery had been real, he would have appeared armed with argument without end in support of his Crosier. If his an aiet! for the salvation of the infant generation had been se tamer* as It ought to be, Ina man who is so *eV paid for looking after it, he would have met his flock. both old and young, ant explained to them the ob jects for which they were convened, and not ha; ntposPd his Right Honourable Colleague to the de- Anon of the meeting, by making an excuse for the ab- NOM of the Bishop, as crooked as his vision. This Right Re►. Father in God, it seems, was prevented from attending by the business of the Diocese !! ! What s will this mitred Gentleman pretend that any busi ama couldee more important than that of preserving from heresy, Deism, and Atheism, the population an entire Diocese, rearing the offspring of a nun*. rotas peasantry and handicraft men in the Christian religion, and training them to honesty. Long as this Bishop was in the service of Mr. PITT, he will nc have the effrontery to say, that any object connected with his clerical functions, could rival this part of his duty in importance, and especially as he avows the necessity of such superintendance by calling the County together. Why did he not meet the county ? He is bound to answer this question, or stand marked as a man far more at tached to the temporalities and immunities of his cle rical offices, than to the cure of souls. When " has given his answer, it may not bb amiss to enquire how it has happened, that none of our Clergy, from an Archbishop down to a Welch Curate, ever thong' it worth their while to establish schools for the insteue.—, tion of the poor ? Is it the zeal modactieity of the Mir seaters to propagate useful knowledge and piety, that have alarmed the Established Clergy,who hitherto hat confined their pursuits to their titles, and to runtk i ning after foxes, benefices, prebends, deaneries, slid bisboprics ? If it be the laudable exertion, of the Dissenters which have alarmed the Clergy of the, Established Church, and stimolated them to follow an example which they ought to have given, reli gion will owe as much to the Puritans in the reign of Gaoanz HI. as liberty did to them in the very exceptionable reigns of the STUART race. - -; We understand that, in consequence of ill heal* Mr. Yoaaa has tendered his resignation of the Pre sidency of the Board of Admiralty to the PRIDE* Itzorwr ; and that Mr. RYDER has also tendered bb of Secretary of State for the Home Department s tot from what cause has not been declared. An American Paper of the 30th Dec. says, that certain Merckaots had presented petitions to Con. gross, stating that their vessels and cargoes sent to Naples, after the issuing of the President's Procla mation of Nov. 4, 11310, were there confiscated and sold under the Berlin and Milan Decrees, and pray ' ing relief. The same paper states, that Mr. POWERS reported a Bill s authorising the organisation of a military corps of 50,000 men, which was' read a second time, and referred to a Cetassittee of the whole lions*. „ - .., , • ,oltDPlts IN coulica, 4...irdis._ SHEMEiId, FEB. 4.—ln compliance siith a Akin& sition, signed by Merchants and other respectable persons of this town, a public Meeting of the Inha bitants was called by Mr, Eadon, the Master Cutler, to take into consideration the propriety of 66 Petis tioning Government, on the• subject of the British Orders in Council respecting Neutrals, and the East India Company's Monopoly."—That Meeting was accordingly held at the Town Hall, yesterday, in the forenoon. At an early hour, howeter, the Hall and the passages leading to it, were so crowded with company,. that it was found necessary for the Master Cutler, as Chairman, to adjourn into the lower Room and the people assembled in front of the . . . I ages X. Wit 4 wee the Trade of the Bast India Company limited to Ns sap.l7 tithe United Kingdoms with the prodacts datum, Dowel, - NI the Indian Pesin.ula, and certain existing restric 'lofts and privileges abolished or insdilled,_the vast Sellof Asiofa, NAVAL iN7`BGLi6iENCB. PcittismduTn i Pic 6: tailed die PoLaden, 74 gum; Captain Jackie,' (Carotid,' resford, M. P. being at the Masai df Callismons) ; and the Ye: 'mashie, 74, Lieutenant Jeremy (Sii fildm6 Popham, M. P; being at the Home of Cciniotous); to illtiCkade Cheiburgh ; Arrived the Peacock sloop, Captain Peale, fain a crude and the Camden; Captain Stevenson, frdwi Seaford: Salkd the Yeagenr; Captain Thant MOH** Ilitieria, 38 guns, Captain Ilawkiw, for Plymouth ; and die Crane sidupi Captain Hayden; on a cruise. Went out of harbour the Aveaget, and Nimble dater; FALMOUTH; FLII. 41 Atrited the DOtterell sloop 6( War troll 1J tad , with dig= patches; she sailed pridr to the lierritig schooner, which arrived yesterday, erinseqiientiy brings no firsts meal. Sailed the Darlington packet, Capts Hartey, itidi Mails tat Other hand thereare several not namjd Who assuredly would have voted with them, if they had been pre sent. Major-General MACKINNON, who lately fell at the ' Ciudad of father name, - elder Ary Major and , , ---- - - i muleu sue ii.hon whom ir.n.c4 - 1, a_ npu riarvey, was POO LB lOr 1 ne building. A series Of Resolatiotis on the two subjects in- ! the 'Windward Islands: Prince Ernest paeket, Petre, with is cluded in the Requisition,together ts ith a Petition to the Mails for the Mediterranean ; Lady Arabella packet, Pdteits i ed Prince Regent,were proposed by Mr. T. A.Ward, sup , ', and Duke of Kent paCket, C.mtesworth, with Mails fof tisbon ; , ,/ b e ported in an able speech by Mr. J. Bailey, and Car- I Orion, Rowe, for London ; Severe, Truett , for Watetfeld t /. . 41 lit vied with acclamation by the audience. Two amend. 1 Adventure, Amos, for Biddeford; Henna, Mooting, for user meats, contained in an anonymous letter s which was , sey ; and a Sett of colliers for Wales: is -take appointed The Speedy packet s Capt. Suth e rl a nd, is to I .., handed to the Chairman,being read to the Meeting,were I so moved and seconded by two gentlemen present, but , the dell Mails to the Mediterranean ' and witi bd rnad Y far sea ' 4l 1 about the 7th Inst. - g- rejected. These Amendments, as far as we could YARMCIfiTit, Fri. d. ed 1 understand them, proposed an adjoernment of the p re discussion of the 66 Orders in Council," on the "lid die "66 sloe " war ' CaPtaia 'fildatPidas ad a cruise. 'le • ' ground that Mr. given notice a mo- Brougham had of lt' .Affived th e Hearty gen-brig firdra ditto; and females in Bid ' • - Lion concerning them in Parliament; and of the disc R oa d s hi s hiejesty'l ships Soiebay, Starling, and Thrailser: ' b a cnssion respecting the East India Company's Mono.. !YEA L, Fee: 6: ~ g - • , in poly, on the ground that the Company were now Came dews ffom the River the Tale 'relate, tort, foe • i: : 1 ii- making arrangements With Government for the sure Naidlas and * * main' with his Majesty's MP, East add Welt Ins its I render of some of the powers exercised by them in I diameai mailers' I la d _. _aillici" The .__ . natint l i bduud age . :" P r e - ss 1 their territories. With regardTo the tatter we have 1 /" .64° ' 411 bi1t ..: 1 " 7 * VP' s ` aliaamait " ' ell 1.4164 ' alai ° .ow fair, looks as a it would back la &psi* ffebs the *estward. Ipt !nothing to sa having no knowledge of the arrange - / COWES, Jan. 6: , ments allud ed ; but as to the first, a more urgent A- reason for present public discussion of the Orders in Tbe clutward.bouad maim for Portugal and the klediteria , mean, have made the signal fe Y tr 'anise. , , • 1, Council could not have been Produced, than that TORBAY, dee. s. . • 1 ' .ed those Orders were speedily to , be discussed in Parlia- Sailed yesterday the Loire frigate tae Pittway& t Said thb ' '. • : he went, for thus alone can the Members of the House morning his Majesty's ships Aboukir, cootheriaas s and Fawn, rie of Commons be truly informed of the sense of their , k . for their station of the Bass Isles • I Constituents, on a subject extensively affecting their - - . he . ed interests. It is indeed very probable that the majo• Disc maRKE7S. . 1 rity of the People and the majority of their Repree . lk CORN EXCHANGE, taw/. ' ' tut sentatives may decide in direct contradiction of each Il se m o t et thi s d ay h e , b e t th oet N t h ma yh e m o r Wh ea t. e at v . ' ' tig other on the wisdom and efficacy of those measures ; not mach of remaining suliplket all (*Mete** a small is- . h s , 'but this only furnishes an additional argument why 1 v i zs t e e 1 price-BarieLlikewise,asel in short sup itr ais -Mread eas nearly at t quotation-Grey aad . it the former should appeal to the Prince Regent for sort rather dearer-We have also scanty supplies a Oats, and ' 1 i -- relief from a grievance, which, by his single word, 1 saki la this trade readily obtain the Prices quoted - Phase MY j I 1 is at Meader* advauce. might be redressed to-morrow. Wheat 661 90i 108 s I Tick do. (new) . • iti S 4 ##, • of The following are the Resolutions which were Finediuo ll2 118 Do. (Flat Old) .. 55 55 ng passed almost unanimously :- Rye 5O 56 1 Oats 9O 94 38 ; Barley 42 52 Poland do. 74 86 82 rrp: o tre d z . :: ..., . €80 40 „88 49 • ? ng I. That the vast wealth, power, and prosperity of kind mak doss have been owing, is a great degree, to the enterprisi ng ' White Pees (boilers) to spirit and persevering filmdom of the British Merchant, wh ich . Gre „ 40. a by establishing valuable foreign markets for our Manufactures, ke a' ai i . 58 53 " 88 I kee F ille ala F k l"! ..,.... "L a 951 90 . 1 . 1 - have called into action the native talent and Industry, improved ' ••'• • " • • re the coaditioti, and 'screwed the motivation of the people. ' 11. That we cannot bat contemplate with the deepest concern SMITHFIELD MARK E7'.-Fes. 1. ly the present state ottbe United Kia~um, the unusual number of , To sink the Offal, per slime of 816. he Bankruptcies, the depreciation of tie Currency, the rapid : Beef ....3s. 2d. to 65. 2d. I Head of Cattle this iley I decrease of the prosperity erne Manefacturing Teens, the great I Mout a ..5.. 0.1. to 64. 94. Beasts e, number of workmen now destitute of employuseat, the continual Veal ....7s. (id. to 4. Ud. I /beep .......s;..••• 3,720 • ' I , increase of paupers, the miserable conditi lon of the lower classes Pork ....6s. OA. to 7s. 4d. Calves ••. • ,: ~ lOO s'. in general, and the numerous difilculties Yet maaarramments Lamb ....os. ud. to os. od. Pi e . h e wh ich impede the operations of the me ead manufacturer. it A Y-M Alt K ET. i 111. That these alarmi ng evils have ari •,, great micas* Hay en from the lon of some important branches • : ell port tide, Straw ... ! particularly Met with the (Tilted States of cs„ the larszt Clover -51. Os. Od. to 61. 0.. Od. 1 its and most valuable market.or British in , $ - ty Country seer ponemed, a whic • ..., . •,• 11 ett hat the Island of Java Is fobs/ i - prived by certain regulationells. , . • , to rally known by the naase :• i -"-- ' placed ou tint matatintlO7 '- 1 . 1 l i . .. i , - ~, . 1.. 4 f it eaeace of whieb,tho . ; - .. • , . %e imponatioa of British • . IL, iv. Yttampre these Orders evea se - /11111 Letters y. y from Gibraltar, of the 16th Ilk. ~• . i ,i 0 0 y wool dlipy depriving her of a mar . , - , turn tate, that ch had entirely disappeared from 1 * , b ' onsideraile proportion of her capital A g ri- that neigh. , . , ! t• , , iv culture to Manufactures, cut of a most • . of , British commerce, and groduall.• create rival By the Eh sehtioner, arrived at ratan:l4i , ! 1 ' 1 ' le- to this Country, in the great maims now .. • Co.. from St. Mjcha we learn ;hat the Island of 916. Lb- it :f South America. it v n . e T hat thestierlin Decree did not materially . brine had disap . 1 leasing depth of water sullia Olt with tbe United States, which was never more cleat for any yes a pan over, the place where it • i when the Orders in Council were issued; and it abed. • om our naval superiority would not oily have secur , ad. vantages of that trade, but that a considerable , ' Some accounts represent MARWOWE as advancleg, it ' tinental commerce might inve bees Fest ed, , . ' laR and the private adtices from Oporto of the 24th, , . I Si- the Enemy's Decrees,isy the activity mid e rri . trait , corroborate this statement. " Msammer (say they) • : assisted by British capital, and protected ; rit • i Lllg VI. That the Orders in Comma. so far ace - la . - is coming up by forced marches; General Don.. l of tended objects, have been productive of 1 ° - sums has left Salamanca to join Miassorn, and smad of forcing a trade to die Continent o ~ rope, e ISO- aided the operation debt French Decrees soled • „ great events are on the eve of taking place.- :,.., it-they have, by Varian arm+, draws , ... Coin • lion General Hsu. has been ordered to join Lord War.- this country to the Coatiocat, induced cry ext r_Y, LINGTON immediately, and a general battle is shortly his and unfavourable sines ef exchange, sad - h es ui sot Bri t i s h the License systero, a panne injurious . . rah in of expected." 24 n British Commerce, sad &lefty crass 1 hectic • The statement that eleven Areericau vessels have . n i ; • tad venkoce of the enemy. been sequestrated in the pores of France, by way of . 7 VI I . That manikins ef the Decrees , the 1, art of the British (Mumma ought to ' to retaliatiog for a decision of Judge WASHINGVON., is I ._ and particplar laterals et thh swestry . and that eentradicetd by the intelligence we have received he tinuaace oT pernicieuesed dleinsetive should , by peed upon die will mid ) nneee at the ; and as th e . through the medium of the Americas Gentlemen, •f ; ' 1 ; p er ky s la m Revalue fslatimately_ _ thine • ho left Paris on Thursday last. It is, we believe, j sot mere., a conelderable dimisides Or the lie Income may . pected sleuld sloe Orden le Council . numbed. orrect, that six American ships, which had been . l , • .l his e: led, 'That as many valuable markets been lately WA t I oder process, in the French Courts of Admiralty .1 as- as, it becomes more peculis.rly lin porta to pieserve that . - - r r i l i y o tawndo Milan Decrees. D ha ec ve ree b s e . en condemned, under the 74'' ' , America; and the revocation el the Ordst. in Council, by . l. l :le- Trade to the United Stated/ and theirs with . inarke i t would promote the ymere of American •• In our List of the Minority on Lord Moaerrit's I he debts to Merchants, facilitate ov cofuutunicatioa with . . tion, there were several important mistakes , which Ire the Cesehteet of Europe, to Mate to Ili Al s.mount of coin l ' ; , • ; awl be im rove the rate of foreiga w e gee, revive our 1 ,: . . our duty to correct. Mr. GEORGE PONSONBYII, ,I 1 onl deellend esmeds res, sad glee employteen . and cola - e ther for Cork County, and Mr. FREDERICK Pon. ,: ~.II 1, 3 be feet le Illatinstes. who now languish. ~ i-- t e a s a of Wenre , poverty, distms ' ' T s Member for Galway, were by mistake both , X '!.1! ; • o uc- U. net Awl various doepesee d hefo rliament, it 0•,.. • • though in the House clarinet'. wheiedebate, ,i M . at ibil at d a " ellitil if 6b6 . c li rdie ica " l : then a lit e r g ung i e i a F n o4 ' ev "t int i'tig s not in heretoforetheMi 1 1 hat sad valuable partno v r Minority . fo Th rth e e li Ca on tlio A li N c tl Cl ß ti E eS7 mer i can , , m g tinderlkit Ts theefore tion, and we cannot, therefore, include his name rii. ,., are dessaded lofts( mid , that if his Majesty ' s sub- ' 1 I ' jects cannot haves derided they shield at mast pos. with confidence among the absentees, who w uuld I ;: i 1 un" equal advent A _ _ . __ . ._.,_•*_______.._.._, Peobhbly bare joined the Minority ; but on the 1 gallantry rebellion, be ring the campaigns Copenhagen. Late Peninsula, leilia, the at soundest j -4 most . promising General • Bart. 'most Akita, and America, would he thrown open to the exertions of as.. el _ British ea ital and industry, a hit*, so far from proving injuri- Maj or -‘7s II: soul. amet,trobe:eduirecTow,mthe;:istantiyea, ancHorlibt ecogiae.dalliopetereawnnea:imsdagaaeolij out to the * nal interests of Cie Company, would essentiall y . pro- hol of his tame Chess h a y ename increasi: zre tlie gen . .al , wiefaiwth Majesty d ajes p t ros y to pent wi l th.. of agdr:oth, their terrilotia. :45 rao _maatophprodiesudl X iii ; ooabgeuLthera7 Th t: l lastidagdybra:eimematire as :tedy it iranunrapw m iesebnethit b i l : a _onse e eneyi Pi t t t : ::.: a :.: / a efLirayieg that his sign 11114.cottoydisibe—lherebsiow.."meni:ladoLonrevrbeiarehanwitPrg:opoiemtirleewl:hfle;1141:_ illixfnipedighltihsosaigattililiontia,nalirimytt44 theywoold . t w oit die Prince - rebelliou, bi . VIII. Ilbat Ise Thaslts at lib:, . se the Re-' during the • qaoitiasastse sd e ng. thek onlig the • . JOHN • Maks Cutler. ed for the P Vv. That die Iliale otilii 1. iive n t" b e ( bah' *Mates tht tau, for his able ant ismgeriid • Chair. ' Talavera, at -- ..____ ---• the soondesi The body of a respectable • whit* bad been ners, and in six weeks in the water, Sitio foetid the Serpredne a more proni River on Monday. A . • . . • oat en The General the body . on Tuesday, in lit • before Al.. S. CALL, Rai Tnostif Gut, F..sq• and delivered . , - • Ned the less of ta Drowned. ' a OIL . , . • • • ; • , v ., ... \ 0 4.. ;: ; :, t: - ICY..' .....;t4 . n-;._ ... , • • 4.7* - r - ' ' ' brigade in the storming of Ciudad Rai- )f one of the most ancient families iri Scot- , father was a younger branch of the Chiefs is, and his family became about twoyeers u. branch by the extinction of .he other. . t' ti career was begun at an early age in the 4 Regiment Guards. Some time after the 1.1 t i ',..§ Cr 1 o Holland, he served in the capacity of 1 I'4 jor to Sir G. Nooanr, during the Irish , • 11, fi nd the dispatches of that time bear witness '!' [ l itry and good conduct. After the Irish •• n. le was conspicuous with his regiment, t 0' campaigns in Egypt, in Germany, and ;en. Late in the year 180% he embark- ' 4. 'eninstia, and Lord WELLurroves letters e highest enlogiums on his conduct at t Busaco, and at Fuentes St. Honor ; to it judgment he joined the mildest mart. Lost undaunted courage. There was not . nixing young officer in the British army'. I married in 1804, the daughter of Sir It. who, with two infants, has to deplore most indulgent of husboW4l, sad the bell .. 1 P i . , _ AV t- • . 11