The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN.

WAR DEPARTMENT, June 30.

LnRD PANMIIBE has received intelligence from General
Simpson announcing the fatal termination of Lord Raglan's ill-
ness. Until 4 p.m. on the 28th his Lordship had been progressing
to the satisfaction of his medical attendants, when alarming
symptoms developed themselves, attended with difficulty of
breathing, which gradually increased. From 5 p.m. he was
unconscious, and from this period he gradually sank until 25
minutes before 9, at which hour he died. The event has
plunged the whole army into the most profound grief.

The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the following:—Already,
some days since, letters from London stated that Lord Raglan
was seriously ill. A despatch from General Pelissier received
to-day, dated June 28,10 p.m., announces the death of the ex-
cellent General whom the Government of Queen Victeria had
selected as Commander-in-Chief of our allies in the East.
France will share the regrets of General Pelissier. His des-
patch to the Minister of War is as follows :
It is with deep regret that I have to announce to you that
the venerable chief of the English army expired this evening
at 9 o'clock. We are the more affected by his death, as during
the preceding 24 hours his health seemed to have considerably

improved.
Royer, Srmrsrnr.—The sympathy which the whole coun-
try must feel with the family of Lord Raglan has been evinced
at the earliest moment. Even the fear of intruding upon
private sorrow has not prevented an immediate expression of
condolence on the part of some of the highest and noblest in
the realm. The intimation of Lord Raglan's demise reached
his widow at noon on Saturday, by the hand of the Hon.
Robert Dundas, who was commissioned to perform the sad
office by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Within a very
short period His Royal Highness Prince Albert called person-
ally to convey Her Majesky's condolence in an autograph letter;
and, further to show that this expression of feeling was not
merely etiquette, again repeated his inquiries in the evening.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent sent to make inqui-
ries as soon as the painful intelligence reached her ; and their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary, and Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meklenburg Strelitz,
were among the earliest to offer their condolences. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Glocester and his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge also sent to make inquiries. The
Queen's anxiety on Lady Raglan's behalf was further exhibited
by two messages inthe course of Sunday.

Field-Marshal Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, Ist Baron
Raglan, ninth son cf the fifth Duke of Beaufort, was born in
1788; married in 1814 the second daughter of the third Earl
of Mornington, niece of the Duke of Wellington ; entered
the army as cornet in the 4th Dragoons, 9th June, 1804 ;
lieutenant, -1805 ; captain, 1808; major, 1811; lieut.-colonel,
1812; colonel, 1815 ; major-general, 1825 lieut.-general,
1838; general, 20th June, 1854; field-marshal, Nov. 5, 1854.
Lord Raglan has had issue—Richard Henry Fitzroy, b.
1817. Charlotte Caroline Elizaheth,b. 1815.—Arthur William
Fitzroy, -major in the army, b. 1816; d. 1845, of wounds
received at the battle of Ferozeshah, having m. 1845, Emily
Louise widow of Mellish, Esq., (who married 3rdly, 1850,
'HenriWebster, Esq.) —Katherine Anne Emily Cecilia, b. 1824.
Lord -Raglan was Master-General of the Ordnance, a lieut.-
general in the army, colonel of the 53rd foot, and a Commis-
-sioner of the Royal Military College and Royal Military
Asylum ; was formerly secretary of embassy at Paris, and
seerttary to the Master-General of the Ordnance from 1819
'to:-?:827. His lordship entered the army as cornet in the 4th
'Dragoons, in 1804; became a lieut.-general in 1838, and was
appointed colonel of the 5.3 rd foot in 1830. He received a cross
and five clasps for his services as aid-de-camp and military
'secretary to the Nike 'of 'Wellington, at Fuentes de Onor,
•Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes,
and Toulouse; and-after serving in Flanders, was at Waterloo,
where he lost his right arm. His lordship was secretary to
two successive Commanders-in-Chief, and, on the death of the
Duke of Wellington, he was raised to the peerage on being
appointed MaSterlGeneral of the Ordnance.
Upon this subject the Times of yesterday says :—Although
Lord Raglan aid not possess the -highest qualities of military
genius, and although the enormous magnitude of the enter-
prise in which it was his fate to be engaged may -have de-
manded a 'degree of energy and a vehemence of character
more often 'found in younger men, the reputation he leaves
behind him is one which the bravest might be proud to enjoy
and the best might envy. Having passed a long life in the
service cf his country, 'in posts of high authority, and in the
discharge of many delicate end arduous duties, he dies with-
out an.enemy, and his memory is unstained by a Single-act of
selfishness, inhumanity, or unkindness. He brought to the
profession of arms a chivalrous gallantry which 'increased the
lustre of his 'descent from one of those historic-families-whose
ranklis most fitly marked by the services they have rendered
to the Crown of England, and the great house of Somerset
hasilhorneno scion whose career is more visibly stamped with
noltity. In earlylifeit had been his good fortune to hold a
plate of trust under the most eminent of English generals,
Whe made his head-quarters and the field of arms a school of
aaninistration and of public duty. There first he learnt to
:practise that art of conciliating and governing those subordi-
nate to his orders or his influence by a candid appreciation of
'their merits and by_constant consideration for their feelings.
-We this period of his life a tribute has been paid by the his-
lorian of the 'Peninsular War," which will be .read at this
--moment with melancholy interest. Speaking of the condition
'tot' the British,arlay in Spain in 181.2, Sir William Napier
'says :
" The old regiments were incredibly hardy and, experienced
'in. all things necessary to sustain their strength and efficacy ;
the Staff was well practised ; and :Lord Fitzroy Somerset,
Military' Secretary, had established -such an intercourse be-
, tweeri the -headquarters and battalion chiefs, that the latter
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Method LordFiteroy acquired an exact -knowledge of the moral
state of each regiment, rendered his own office important and
gracious with the army, and with such discretion and judg-
ment that the xiLlitary hierarchy was in no manner weakened.
All the daring young men were -excited, and, being unac-
quainted with the political difficulties of their. General, anti-
cipated noble triumphs, which were happily realized."
Such weretheservices rendered by Lord Raglan on the
staffof the Mks of Wellington ; and, although these duties
prevented him-'from taking as active a part as • some other
men in the-actual operations of the army, he had no incon-
siderable share.in the successes of those triumphant years
which terminated the last war, and not exempt from the
risks to which .lhis brilliant personal courage exposed him,
he lost his left,arm upon the field of Waterloo.
With such experience, -no man , was better qualified to fill
' the office of Military Secretary at the Horse Guards, which
, he held under Lord Hill and the Duke of Wellington for 25
' years. He administered the system -which then governed,
and still to a.great extent continues to _ govern, that'depart-
ment, with uprightness, justice, and:an astonishing personal
knowledge of the interests and feelings of the army. His
associations and his prejudices were :identified with that
system, and it cannot be laid to his charge as a crime that he
did not fosieseeon carry into effect the changes which a peace
of almost half ,a .century required. , Bred in the highest
school of Tory polities, trained under the' uke of Wellington,
and attached by birth and education to the most exclusive
branch of the British aristocracy, it may justly be said of
Lord Raglan that _the suavity of his temper, the exquisite
fascination of his manners, the moderation of his character,
:and the excellence-of his heart mitigated the effect of opinions
'which might hare rendered a less kindlyand amiable, man
:arrogant and unjust. The spirit. of this gge is opening to
'wider competition the honours and dnties.of the public ser-
-mice, whether in the -toils of war, in the pivii offices of the
:ate, in Parliament, or in society. A large ambition ani-
mates the mass of -the community, and the power by which
empires are conquered or ruled will assert its authority in
iwhstever rank in life it.-inay be born. But; by whomsoever
Om duties may hereafter be performed, on whomsoever this
responsibility may 'devolve, -the interest and honour of the
.nation require that the samerules of action he observed, and
we :blow of no higher standard of the art of government
than those qualities of truth, disinterestedness, anti self-control
which form the chameter of an:English gentleman. Of these
qualities Lord Raglan leaves the world a most conspicuous
example.
Lord Raglan left England with a full consciousness of the
dangers to which a man of his Advanced years was exposed in
war bythe influence of climate, even more than, by the casual-
ties of battle. We remember, to have seen at the -time a
private letter from him to one of his nearest relatives, in
which he expressed with a soldier's piety, but with a soldier's
courage; -the feelings of a man who, under Providence, tenders
his life for the service of his country. But, in war, which
costs so many thousand lives of the young and the strong, it
would become the leader of sueh a' Bost to be chary of big
own. Indeed, upon the field of
.battle,-when the maddening
excitement of the fight rises to enthusiastic contempt of
danger, Lord Raglan exposed himself to excess ; he dashed
across the Alma in the midst of the -Russian fire with the ,
gaiety of a fonhunter ; he was the first to come on the Russian
convoy on the flank march, and to ride under fire down the
defile of BaLsklava ; at Inkerman, when ‘he ordered the 18-
pounders to be brought up which decided •that bloody day, he
stood under a shower of balls. Not such, however, was his
end; he sank under the exhaustion of his physical powers by
disease, but his life is closed by a death not less gloiiious than
if he Ilad fallen in battle, for he has fallen at the post of
danger and of duty.
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LONDON, Monday Night.
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DIgTURRANCES IN HYDE PARK.
At the Marlborough-street Police-court, Mr. Hardwick said,
that at a quarter to six, it was impossible to go into each par-
ticular case ;he should admit the whole of prisoners to
bail to appear to-morrow•

THE WAR.

(From the Second Edition of The Times.)

MARSEILLES, Monday.

The Thabor has arrived with 200 invalids. She left Con-
stantinople on the 25th of June. Despatches leave at 9 a.m,
Capt. Lyons was buried on the 25th.

THE ASSAULT ON THE REDAN AND MALAKHOFF

BATTERIES.

THE °mite contains despatches from the late Lord Raglan,
Sir E. Lyons, and Admiral R. S. Dundas. Lord Raglan writes
on 19th June :
On 17th, at daylight, a very heavy fire was opened from
all batteries in English and French trenches, and maintained
throughout the day, and the effect appeared so satisfactory,
that it was determined that the French should attack the
Malakhoff works the nest morning, and the English should
assail the Redan as soon after as I might consider necessary.
It was at first proposed that the artillery first should be resumed
on the morning of the 18th, and should be kept up for two
hours, for the purpose of destroying any works which the
enemy might have thrown up in the night, and of opening
passages through the abattis that covered the Redan, but on
the evening of the 17th, it was intimated to me by General
Pelissier that he had determined, upon further consideration,
that the attack by his troops should take place at three the
following morning. The French, therefore commenced their
operations at daybreak; and as their several columns came