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

DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN.

WAR DEPARTMENT, June 30.

LDED PANMIIRE has received intelligence from General
Simpson announcing the fatal termination of Lord Raglan's ill-
ness. Until 4 p.m. on the 28th his Lordshiphad 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

impioved.
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ROYAL SYMPATIIY.—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 Majesty's condolence in an autogiaph 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 in the course of Sunday,

Fisid-Mhrshal Fitzroy Jaiies Henry 'Somerset, Ist Baron ,
Raglansninth son of the fifth Duke of Beaufort, was born in
MS; married in 1814 the second daughter of the third Earl
of Meftington, niece of the Duke of Wellington ; entered
'the array as cornet in the 4th Dragoons, 9th June, 1804;
Bentenant, 1805; captain, 1808; major, 1811; lieut.-colonel,
/8123 colonel, 1815 ; major-general, 1825 • lieut.-general,
1.838; general, 20th Jane, 1854; field-marshal, Nov. Z, 1854.
Lord Raglan has -had issue-.-Riehard Henry Fitzroy, b.
1817.—Charlotte Caroline Elizabeth,b. 1815.—ArthutVilliam
Fitzroy, major in the army, b. I'Bl6 ; d. 1845, of wounds
'received at the baffle of Ferozeshah, having in. 1845, Emily
Louise, widow of Mellish, Esq., (who married 3rdly, 1850,
Henry Webster, tsq.) --liatherine Anne Emily Cetilia, b. 1824.
Lord Raglan was Master-Genetal of the Ordnance, a lieut.-
general in the army, colonel of the 53rd foot,'and a Commis-
sioner of the :Royal Military College and loyal Military
Asylum ; was 'formerly 'secretary of embasSy at Paris, and
secretary to the Master-General of the Ordnance from 1819
to 1827. His lordship entered the army as'tornet in the 4th
Dragoons, in 1804; became a lieut.-general 'in 1838, and was
appointed colonel of the 53rd foot in 1830. 'He received a cross
and Eve -clasps fbr his. services as aidscle:oamp and military
secretary to' the • Duke- tf Wellington, -at Fuentes de Onor,
Badaioz, 'Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes,
and Tonlouse ; and after serving in Flanders, was at Waterloo,
where he -lost' his right arm. His lordship was secretary to
two successive Commenders-in-Chief,ssaid, on the death of the
Dike 'WellingtonThe was raised -to the peerage on being
appointed Master-Gsneral of the Ordnance.
Upon this Subject' the Times of yesterday says :—Although
Lord Raglan did ntt possess the highest qualities of military
genius, and althOugh the enormous magnitude of the' enter-
prise hi which itwas his fate to be engaged may have de-
manded a degree of energy and a vehemence of character
more often' fbuttel in younger men, the reputation be leaves
behind him is cue which the brdvest might be proud to enjoy
andsthe best might envy. HaVing passed a long life 'in the
sersice of 'his country, in posts of high authority, and in the
,digtharge of 'many delitate and arduous duties, he dies with
,oft an enemy, and his memory is unstained by a single act of
selfishness, 'inhumanity, err' mkindness. He brought -to the
Inssfessioroof arms a chiralrous gallantry which increased the
ituStre of ,his descent frail one of those historic families whose
rank is most fitly marked by the services they have rendered
'to the Crown of England, and the great house of Somerset
has borne no scion whose-eaves is more visibly -Stamped with
mobility. In early life it :had been his good fortmietolold a
-place-of trust under the nisost eminent of English generals,
%who made his head-tsaaiters and the field of arms a school of
administration and tf public duty. There first he -learnt to
practise that art of conciliating and governing 'those -subordi-
mate to his orders or bisitriluence by a candid -appreciation of
their merits and. by (constant consideration for their feelings.
/To this period of lairs Ma tribute has been paid by the his-
/torian of the " Peninsular War," which will be read at this
-moment with melancholy interest. Speaking of the condition
of the British army in Spain in 1812, Sir William Napier
says :
"The old regiment:austere incredibly hardsoand experienced
in all things necessary's° sustain their strength and efficacy.;
-Ike Staff was well practised ; and Lord Fitzroy Somerset,
Military Secretary, had established such an intercourse be-
tween the head-quarters and battalion -chiefs, that the latter
[ADA, so to speak, direct communication with the General-in-
Chief upon all the business of their regiments, a privilege
—.nods .i.imulated the enthusiasm and zeal of all. By this
Imethod Lord r ruzroyaoquired 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 military hierarchy was in nomanner weakened.
All the 'daring.young men were excited, and, being none-
,quainted with the political difficulties of their General, anti-
cipated noble triumphs, which were happily realized."
1 • Such were the services rendered by Lord Raglan .on the
staff of the Duke 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 liis,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 kid to his charge as a crime that he
.did not foresee or-carry into effect the changes which a peace
of almost half a ,oentury required. Bred in the highest
-school of Tory politics, trained under the Duke 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 his heart mitigated the effect of opinions
which might have rendered a less kindly and amiable man
arrogant and unjust. The spirit of this age is opening to
wider competition the honours and duties of the public ser-
,vice, whether in the toils of war, in the civil offices of the
State, in Parliament, or in society. A large .ambition ani-
mikes the mass of the community, and the power by which
.empires are conquered or ruled will assert its authority in
whatever rank in life it maybe born. But, by 'whomsoever
these duties may hereafter be performed, on whomsoever this
responsibility may devolve, the interest and honour of the
nation require that the samerules of action be observed, and
we Anow of no higher standard of the art of government
than those qualities of truth, disinterestedness, and self-control
which form the character of am 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 by the 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 ill become the leader of such a host to be chary of his
own. Indeed, upon the field of battle, when the maddening
excitement of the fight rises to enthusiastic contempt of
danger, Lord Evian exposed himself to excess; he dashed
. across the Alma in the midst of the Russian fire with the
gaiety of a foxhunter ; he was the first to come on the Russian
convoy on the flank march, and to ride under Are down the
defile of Balaklava; at Inkerman, when he ordered the 18-
pounders to be brought.ap 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 glorious than
,if he Itad fallen in battle, for he has fallen at the post of
danger apd of duty.

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