The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-02 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD _RAGLAN.

The sympathy which the which country must feel with
the family of Lord Raglan has been evinced at the earliest
moment. Even the fear of intruding upon private sor-

row has not prevented ari immediate- expression of con-
dolence on the part of some of the highest and the noblest

2 the realm.

The intimation of Lord Raglan's demise reached his

widow at noon on Saturday by the band 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 personally to convey her Majesty's con-
dolence 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 inquiries
as soon as the painful intelligence reached her, and their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, were among the earlist to offer
their condolence. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge also sent to make inquiries.
The Queen's anxiety on - Lady Raglan's behalf was
further exhibited by two messages in the course of yes-
terday. •
The list of visitors embraced the majority of the no-
bility and gentry now in town.
The late Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset was the
youngest child of the large family of Henry fifth Duke
of Beaufort, by Miss Boscawen, daughter of the Hon.
Admiral Boscawen. He was born on the 30th September,
1788, and, like his elder brothers' Lord Robert Edward
and Lord John, adopted the military profession. Be-
fore he had completed his 16th year, in June, 1804,
he was appointed a cornet in the 4th Light Dragoons,
and subsequently served in the 431 Foot and Ist Foot
Guards. In 1808 he was appointed aide-de-camp to the
DukO of Wellington, and in 1811 he was military seere-
tary-to that illustrious general, which arduous and re-
sponsible duty he discharged throughout the campaigns
of Spain, Portugal, France, and Flanders, and was pre-
sent at-the battles of Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera; and
Busaco, and during the attack and capture of Oporto,
pursuit of Marshal Soult, retreat to and occupation of
the lines of Torres Vedras, the operations in pursuit of
Marshal Massena, the battle of Fuentes d'Onor, the first
siege of Badajoz, the brilliant affair of El Bodon, the
siege and capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, the siege and cap-
ture of Badajoz, the battle of Salamanca, the capture of
Madrid, and the Retire, driving the enemy from Valla-
dolid to Burgos, the siege of that castle, and various
gallant affairs on the retreat from Burgos to the frontiers
of Portugal. He also was in the advance in 1813, the
battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, tho action of Irun,
the passage of the Bidassoa, the Nivelle, and the Nive ;
in the aavance in 1814, the battles of Orthes and
Toulouse, and every other engagement which took place
during that campaign. In 1815, he proceeded with
" the great captain" to Flanders, and was present at
Quatte Bras, the retreat of the 17th of June, and the
battle of Waterloo, where he lost his right arm ; he was
also wounded at Brasco. For his military services in
the Peninsula he received a cross and five clasps for
Fuentes d'Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees,
Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. In 1815, after
the battle of Vaterloo, he was one of the long list of
officers who were nominated K.C.B. Lord Raglan
(*en Lord Fitzroy Somerset) was attached to the late
Hon. Sir Arthur Paget's embassy to Turkey iu 1087 ;
and was, for a short period, secretary to the em-
bassy at Paris, in 1814 ; and was minister pleni-
potentiary there, from January 18th to March 20th,
1815. His lordship was again secretary of embassy
at Paris, from 1816 to 1819. He attended on the Duke
of-Wellington to Vienna and Verona in 1822, when the
illustrious duke went as plenipotentiary to the congress
at those places, and in 1826 proceeded with the duke to
St. Petersburg. where he was sent to congratulate the
late Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne.
In 1823, Lord Raglan went on a special mission to
Madrid, without. however, any diplomatic character.
He was appointed in 1819 secretary to the late Duke of
Wellington, then Master General of the Ordnance,
which situation he held up to 1827, and in August of
that year he was made military secretary to the Com-
mander-in-Chief, the functions of which office he per-
formed until September 30, 1852. In November, 1830,
he was appointed colonel of the 53d Regiment, and in
September, 1847, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of
the Order of the Bath. •In September, 1852, his lord-
ship was appointed Master General of the Ordnance,
and in the succeeding month was elevated to the House
of Peers, under the title of Baron Raglan, and was the
same month constituted a Privy Councillor. While
Master General of the Ordnance be was appointed com-
mander of the forces which proceeded to Turkey on the
21st of February, 1854, with the rank of general while
so employed. On the death- of Field Marshal the Mar-
quis of Anglesey, he was made, on the 9th of May,
1854, colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue).
The military services of the deceased lord since his
arrival in Turkey, and the active operations of the army
in the Crimea, are of too recent occurrence to need re-
capitulation. capitulation. In addition to his British honours of
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The late Lord Raglan married, 6th of August, 1814,
the Hon. Emily Harriet Wellesley Pole, second daughter
whom he leaves
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Richard Henry
Fitzroy, born 24th May, 1817, secretary to his Majesty
the King of Hanover, and two daughters, the Hon.
Charlotte and Hon. Katherine Somerset. His eldest
son, the Hon. Major Arthur W. Fitzroy, was killed,
f brilliant career in India, during the first cam-
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Lady Gran3ille Somerset, the Lad
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Fillbh, Lord and Lady Blanche Dupplin, Lord and Lady
Calthorpe, &c.

LIVERPOOL, June 30. SAILING OF THE PACIFIC.—
The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain
Nye, sailed from Liverpool, for New York, this day, at
half-past one, p.m., with a full cargo, the usual mails,
and 112 pa,,seng,erP, among whom was Mr. Van Buren,
ea-President of the United States.

THE ARISTOCRACY.—The appearance at the present
moment of Sir Bernard Burke's " Romance of the Aris-
tocracy "is calculated to excite much attention. It has
been justly observed that the memoirs of our great fami-
lies are replete with details of the most striking and ro-
mantic interest ; yet how little of the personal history of
the aristocracy is generally known, and how full of
amusement is the subject. Almost every eminent family
has some event connected with its rise or greatness, some
curious tradition interwoven with its annals, equally in-
teresting to the general reader as to that sphere of society
to which this work more particularly refers. The anec-
dotes of the aristocracy here recorded go far to show
that there are more marvels in real life than in the crimp
tions of fiction. Let the reader seek romances in what-
ever book, and at whatever period he may, yet nought
will he find to surpass the unexaggerated reality here
unfolded.