The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-29 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE MA_QUIS OF

ANGLE6E Y.

This venerable and gallant nobleman expired this
morning, a few minute,4 before five o'clock, at his town
residence, Old Burlington-street, Piwadidy.

Hardly a month passes without our having the melan-
cJyrly duty of-recording sthee death of some -orate or other
ef. our
.Peninsular heroes. Day by day-they are drop-
Ping from
.us, and m aSew short years a living Waterloo
veteran will be almost' unknown; One of the most
illustrious of the- remaining few has died, full of years
sled honours ; leaving behind a name which will ever
rank among the foremost in the meals of our most dis-
tinguished military chiefs.
.4. short time since, as the public are aware, 'this venee
ftele and'-disiiinguiShed officer was, while taking his
usual morning Walk, suddenly seized with an attack of
eralysis in one of the streets in the neighbourhood of
iceadilly,
on which occasion he was carried home,by
gentler
nan who saw him lean,f er support against a lamp-
PPt. Under that attack his lordship 'rover lost, his
irits—a circumstance which, feVoured by medical aid,
Materially conduced to his recovery. Slight, however,
nos., the attack was, it did not fail to waken fearful_ inroad
fteaemsei:aly general health, for, notwithstanding his recovery
`°'n the paralysis, his strength and vigour have since
peen slowly on the ebb, and so low had be sleek on yes-
morning as seriously to alarm the members of his
dimilY and household, who with all promptitude imme-
diately sent foiehis lordship's surgeon, Mr. Ferguson, of
toing.° College. Every aid was of course administered
. .
ioubasues:yin the dying hero, but in vain. He died sur-
rounded by the immediate members of his family.
`William Paget,' first Marquis of Anglesey and:
r7thad heir of the Earl of Uxbridge, was born on, the
details which
1768, and few and. unimportant are the
which have been preserved to us of this gallant,
tiehleman's early youth, All' we know for certainty is,"
t when still very youth, young Paget was placed at
asstaestminister School, which has, long since ranked him
Lleeng its distinguished pupils. with Churchill, Colman,
~, Yd, Cumberland, Cowper, Warren Hastings, and Int-,
sel-Yi After leavieg Westniinister, he was entered at
ur'stehurch, Oxford, and haVing passed through the
university eareer-with eclat, quitted Oxford about
‘,2: At this time the ferment of Parisian opiniens was
th -!"g all Europe to its very centre. Lord Paget
4,.?1?gh otherwise of liberal opinions, was, like the young
sad
'of his day, bitterly opposed to the democratic
Young
social Maxims of the new regime. Unlike other
mere noblemen, however, he was not Content with a
3,• '8 expression of adverse sentitnents." With all that
ivacious impefuesity which distinguished his subse-
Tient career, he embraced the military profession, and
Zsed among
his father's tenantry the 800 Regiment of
ti 9t, or Staffordshire Volunteers, which have since dig-
_ ilgilished themselves in almost' every engagement of
rte, from the Pyramids to the Sutlej. When completed
col " 600 men, Lord Paget was presetied withtlie lieutenant-
nelcy ; and on 400 more melt being added to the regi-
raent his lordship was offered the culonelcy, which,
Roth rare discretion and moderation in sii young a man,
" modestly declinea, on the 'ground of his not having
seena foreign service. At this period the regulations
:el'. introduced into the British army were not
force, and Lord Paget's nomination to
,the per-
manentrank in of a field officer, militated against uu exist-
; g rule of promotion. His father, who had been him-
velf a soldier, honoured with the confidence of his -So-
}lreign, eagerly seconded the disposition of young
enry William to take a share in the vast military
42;i:7y:cent: which were then going forward 'all over the
Continent. Accordingly, three mouths after the letter
Lord Paget, with his regiment, embarked
for-Guernsey, and from thence, in 1-794, he joined his
Royal Highness the Duke of York in Flanders ; and in
the alternate checks and' triumphs of that camp iign
Ymitmenced a military career which was destined to
Srerniinate so gloriously both for himself and his coui.try.
4." the disastroug repulse of Turcoing young Paget
earned_ a name for dashing bravery to which his after-
engagements could add but little. From the date of
(rat important check the English troops lost ground
ily, retired rapidly upon Bois-le-Duc, and from
thence were driven across the Meuse. • 'During this
memorable retreat; which was effected in the midst
of 'an intense frost, and in want of almost every ne-
cessary, Lord Paget, .at . the bead of his gallant
4th, acquired additional lurels ; and
ag, although at
!Is.at time. only twenty-five a
years of e, during the
temporary absence of Lord Cathcart, 'had the distinc-
tion of replacing that officer-at the head of the brigade.
On his return to' England in 1795; 'his lordship was
transferred from the 80th to the command of the
7th Light Dragoons, and sent down to Ipswich with
that and other bodies of -cavalry under his command.
Here it was that his lordship comnienced that series of
evolutions, anti laid the foundation of that system of
discipline, which effected an entire reform in cavalry
practice. Indeed, it was chiefly through the unwearied
zeal and dligence displayed at the time by Lerd Paget,
that our cavalry became the formidable and effective in-
strument which it proved itself in the fields of the Penin-
sula, and on the dreadful-day of Waterloo.
At the close of the year 1799 his lordship again 'pre-
pared to accompany his Royal Highness the Duke of
York in the expedition to Holland. In the general at-
tack made on the-2d of October, 1799, Lord Paget was
attached to the division under the command of the Ens-
elan General de Herman, posted on the Sand Hills',
where leis brilliant cavalry manceu,vres contributed ma-
terially to the victory that day obtained by British
troops,, under circumstances .of .the most discouraging
nature. Late in the evening the enemy's cavalry hay-
big been defeated in an attempt which they made upon
the British Horse Artillery, were charged by Lord Pa-
get's brigade, and driven back, with considerable loss,
nearly to Egmont-op-Zee. In the final retreat his lord-
ship's
arduous services were recognised by his being
honoured with the difficult and dangerous duty of pro-
tecting the rear. While engaged in' this duty, a skir-
muish took place in which some pieces of our camicin-were
captured by the enemy, his, lordship, with one squadron
made a desperate attack upon the force of Gen Seition,
amounting to seven squadrons, utterly routed them,
recaptured the British and live of the enemy's cannon,
sustaining a ,merely nominal loss.
Soon after the return of the army from,Holland on the
Ist of July, 1795, his lordship- was united to Caroline
daughter
er the Earl of Jersey, by whom' he
had eight-chilurene but with whom, nevertheless, he did
si.ot lead as happy a life as might naturally be anticipated.
iutifte.erst.his tithe Lord Paget remained fur some years de-
otitig hiniself entirely to the di charge of his regimental
By his unremitting attention and admirable die-
' 1 ePluie, the 7th Light Drsgoons, in which he took much
Pride, became one of the first cavalry corps in the
service.
. .
1. Towards the close of 1808, having in the meantime
Paget
gazetted a major and lieutenant general„ Lord
was ordered into Spain with two brigades of
consisting Of tlit.e.7th, 10th, 15th, and _lBth
i,segunents of Hussars, to strengthen the corps of the
j'etn'Y under Sir David Baird, who was marching
with the
Galicia for the purpose of effecting a junction
tl4l the niaini body advancing upon, Salamanca under
disembarked
brave but unfortunate Sir John Moore. Lord' aget,
mris,einbarked his force at Corunna, amidst the
difficultiesinnurne-
opposed by the want of forage, the apathy'
fficient,supplies they
oa-abff lire
de
st .
ro,
aniarde,tiie tardy and insu
very different to what either men orehorses
taken
been accustomed to, `and proceeded in the route
J",.‘en by the division of Sir David Baird. On the 10th
a-VJeceniber Lord Paget arrived at Zambra, and, after
'ong' and ialeerious- March, hrought up to the assistance
• If John au active and well equipped body of cavalry..
t was on the night' of the 24th of November, the very
, rst
e 4, night 'of poor Moore's disastrous though masterly
e'lleat, that Lord Paget effected this junction. Ott that
memorable night, to use Moore's own words in the
e
of war, " It was clear the bubble had burst, and
be he must have a run forit." Not a moment was to
e lost in hurrying forward the retreat, for abe-patrole
°I Napoleon's army were already in sight, and had actu-
ally Came
up
with the rear of the British columns, while
. Soult at the same time was pushing forward-at the other
:id% Then succeeded the miseries of this long and bit-
ter March. Then were they sometimes driven forward
443 miles a day over rocks and mountains, in the midst
f rain and snow and tempests, enduring all the suffer-
ings of hunger, cold, and thirst, and with an insulting
tnernY incessantly harassing their flank and rear. On
the 20th of December a, junction was effected with the
oivieion under Baird, and at that time Lord Paget was
stationed.-with his division of cavalry a few miles from
1.4 heagurn. At the latter place a body of the enemy's
shi 'tome, amounting to 700, bad been posted, which his lord-
P .by a rapid movement;to cut off from the
• 'lain body of the French forces. Accordingly, at 2 o'clock
pn the morning of the 21st,, Major-General Slade was
dispatched n
tio, by a different route than that which his lord-
tlP proposed pursuing, with the 10th Dragoons, while
e.ard Paget, with the 15th, moved rapidly in a contrary
reached eSahaeum felu o. "the other eidee, and
surprised a picquet of the' awns. Unfortunately, some
men escaped and gave an alarm, which afforded the
French an opportunity of forming e.in an advantageous
Position in the outskirts of the town. The strength of
Post was particularly favourableirom a steep hollow,
which opposed any regular charge of the British cavalry ;
sad some delicate mance:tyres . were thus forced upon
14°1'd Paget in order to gain- the advantage of the
ground for his intendecroperatism. Here the :practical
result, of the long training and consummate abilities of
his lordship were displayed to some effect.- - lie out-
-111 anoint-red the enemy, and charged them while getting
440 line. The' rapidity and force with which our
• °avalr3' rushed on could not, be withstood by the. French
--their line was broken, slaughter and total dispersion
Boon followed; Two lieutenant colonels and upwards of
• 200 other prisoners were the fruits of this bold atid well-
- Preened expedition.
In the reluainder of the retreat his cavalry brigade
brought the rear, when 'his lordship's somewhat
. leraPtudent ardour frequently exposed him to mi-
. 'lent danger Skirmishes, of course, were of. more
thadaily - o'ccur but by the masterly dispel-
\ 4,
0,
e.. ce.
"vc t his lordebip, and the consummate discipline and
alaerity he had infused into: his brigades; the British
troops were enabled' 'to continue their retreat with
t
irltlifig lose. At Majorga, a well-dtrehted attack was
executed oq a considerable force of. the enemy by a de-
. t achutent of the 10th Hussars. in Which the British
sod
successful, and upwards
of 100 of the French, men
d officers, made 'prisoners. At Berievente, Lind
- l'aget's 'division 'was fiercely attacked by the chasseura
Guard. The piequete eloniS the' river
having been driven-in; his lerdelep reinfOrced them
with the inlying piequete- and a• part of =the • German
~ussare, which gallantly kept in check six squadro-ne of
- the Imperial Guards; Lord Paget having:arrived on
the
eventuallyssp°frfoutedutltfroerrittleienglaot.gehd. in a bloode.skiriniah.. He
gave orders it- an attack
With the picquets,.,while he formed the 10thand'
ellaiged at their head sle • - line, an
.SllO
.Ineltious
than the lapitei Guru rite iittirifoviztoo
__7lh

the loss of a general, seven officers, and 100 men made
prisoners, and nearly as many killed.
By a e-intinueLl series of such bold operations Lord
Paget gra Wally acquired for the English cavalry that
high iyeatige which they so well maintained in subse-
quent campaigns, and the very able manner in which the
retreat upon Cori-Irma was protected throughout by the
Hussar division obtained the approbation of the la-
mented commander, and will ever continue a 'theme for
admiration and example to the rest of the army. Had
the list of the noble marquis's services terminated at,
this period, he must have carried with him from the
Spanish coast the reputation .of one of the most gallant
spirits of those stirring times, and decidedly the most .
brilliant cavalry officer in the army..,
In the Autumn of 1806 Lord„Paget returned to Eng-,
land, where he remained for some time, taking no part'
in the Peninsular Campaigns. -During, this time his
lordship was divorced from. Lady Paget, and then mar-
ried Lady Cowley, who was divoi•ced frOin: Lord Cowley
in 1810. From 1806 to 1812 Lord Paget sat in the
'House of Commons as represe6tative for Milburn Port,
when the death of his father, in the latter year. removed
him to the House of Peers as Earl of Uxbridge. But,.
though gifted. with stropg common sense, and much
keen penetration, Lord 'Uxbridge's natural scene of
action was not in . a legislative assembly, and events
were rapidly -preparing employment for his' genius on
more congenial subjects.
Early in March, 1815,- all Europe was thunderstruck
by Napoleon's sudden burst into France from his island
cage. The allies recalled their scattered armies, and
again took the field. This campaign was to be fought
by minutes. Both sides knew well that all depended
on time. By a happy appointment the command of the
large cavalry forces attached to the Anglo-Belgian army
was given to the Earl of. Uxbridge. Of his bearing and
exploits on that field, when . the Imperial power was
broken for ever, it is .needless to speak. His deeds have-
been the theme of 6rator and historian, and are too
familiar in all their incidents.to require. repetition. Con-
spicuous for bravery when all were brave, leading on his
brigades to charge after charge, and exciting applause
even among the French officers, "he contributed largely
to the success of the operations by which the day was
won, and left a limb behind-him-to attest the gallantry
with' which his person was exposed to the fearful acci-
dents of the field. Almost one of the last cannon-shot
fired by the flying foe struck his lordship in the right
knee, inflicting a wound which rendered immediate am-
putation necessary, and the leg of the hero having been
appropriated as a - relic by -the owner of the house in
which the operation was performed, lies buried beneath
a green mound in a garden oppositethe inmi at Waterloo.
For his part in this great event the Earl of Uxbridge
was, on the 23,11 of June, 1815, created . Marquis of
Anglesey, and he largely shared in all the other rewards
with which agrateful country hailed: her victorious sol-
'diers.
In politics Lord Anglesey played a rather conspicuous
part. Under Mr. Canning's brief administration he
succeeded the Duke of Wellington as Al:aster-General of
the Ordnance, with a seat in the Cabinet. On the Ist
of March. 1828, be was appointed Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland. Here his characteristic impetuesity and liberal
opinions betrayed his lordship into taking a decided part
with Daniel O'Connell and the Catholic Association,
which led to his immediate recal, after having held office
one year. He was succeeded in the Viceroyalty by the
late Duke of Northumberland.
In December, 1830, his lordship was again appointed,
and arrived in Dublin on the 23d. Here' he was re-
ceived by the good -citizens with anything but a popular
manifestation of feeling, in consequence of his lordship's
support of Lord Chief Justide Doherty against Daniel
O'Connell. The feeling of irritation, such as it was, was
much increased by his lordship's issuing a proclamation,
,on the 25th of December, against an intended procession
of the trades of Dub in to the house of the Irish Libera-
tor, in Merriun square. The affair, however, was no-
thing more than, a nine days' wonder, and soon blew
over, and his lordship eventually regained in 'lreland all ,
the popularity which he formerly possessed, and to which
he was justly entitled.
In 1834 the noble marquis resigned the Viceroyalty
in consequence of declining" health, and from ' that
period he took little part in public affairs. He rested
his fame entirely upon, his military services, which in
this country, as well as wherever he cause of European
liberty is valued, must always entitle him to the highest
consideration. - His lordship, as well as being a Knight
of the Garter. was a member of most of the principal
military orders in Europe.—/fornidg &raid.

At the moment when we are beginning a new war we
have to announce the death of one of the heroes of our
last great struggle Field-Marshal the Marquis of
Anglesey, in his 86th year.
It any sense of relief mingled with the regrets for the
death of Wellington, it was that the Waterloo Banquets
came to an end. As' more and more of the Waterloo
heroes' dropped off, the ceremony came to have more
of mourning than of cheerfulness in it. The drinking to
the memory of those who were gone was done in a more
and more solemn silence, and no doubt it sometimes
crossed the minds of those present that the Duke him-
self might possibly be the last survivor. There' was
some comfort in its not being so. Here is another of the
band, now gone, who kept one anniversary of Waterloo
'in his owned mind, and perhaps liked that banquet
better than the brilliant one at Apsley-house. The issue
of the institution (as- we may call it) of the Waterloo
Banquet reminds one irresistibly of that club of the last
century, the members of whiCh (all old friends) pledged
themselves-to keep-their anniversary meeting as long as
any of them lived. The numbers dwindled till there
were four grey old men'to play the rubber, an 4 sitround
the now small supper table. Next year there were three,
and they played dummy. When there were but two, they
r&used the cards, and sat talking with their feet on the
fender. At last -there was but one, and he -faithfully
fulfilled his pledge spent the- evening alone with his
bottle of port, in the old room, li4tening to the fall of
the cisid,rs, which was, the only break in the silence.
Wellington WAR not left to this survivorship, which was
not much relieved by the presence of unqualified and
younger men ; and it is well that his imposing club is
broken-up -with him. He left one senior-1-the- old friend
who has now followed him. The most interesting rwr-
sonagef perhaps, at the funeral of the Duke was the
aged M trquis of Anglesey. When; just after daybreak
on that November morning, his carrirge, surrounded by
an escort of the Blues, .entered the park, a manifest
thrill pervaded the as,embled multitude—e Very man of
whom knew how fiercely and how long he had suffered
for his gallantry, in the last of England's European
battles ; and prob tbly every one felt, as he must have
himself felt, that he would ere long take his place in the
;rain of fanerals which are sanctified by the glories of
Waterloo. The grey. shattered, tremulous old comrades
who stood. looking down into the crypt at St. Paul's
were an aff,.e.ting spectacle, and among them the Mar-
quis of Anglesey was conspicuous, as bearing the Field-
Marshal's baton of the deceased.. It seemed to be his
• own farewell to the public,—and so it has proved.—
' Daily News.

THE LATE CAPTAIN FOOTE.

20
The following is a copy of a letter addressed by go
Mr. Sloggett, the surviving officer of the' unfortu-
nate calamity which re•iolted in the death of the
late Captain John Foote, of the Conflict, to W. 20.
Hodson, Esq. : 00
100
" Her Majesty's Ship Conflict, Memel, April 19.
"My dear Sir,--Although I feel myself scarcely equal .
to the sad task of writing to you, I cannot allow the post
to, leave without doing so, as I know well how, gladly you
will receive any details of sad accident of which I was
unhappily a witness. Lieutenant Hon, who is now in
temporary command of the ship, has already related to
you theLaccount of the death of Captain Foote, though no
words can express the sorrow and grief felt by every officer
and man for a captain so mach and so deservedly beloved.
Although so short a time of the comulission has elapsed,
his constant, unvarying kindness, his thoughtful care for
the comforts and even the, convepience of every one, and
his mild amiability of temper in command had so endeared
him to every one, that his loss is felt as 'that of a near rela-
tive, an ola and.valnea friend. Mr. Horn has explained to
yon the reasons of the ship being at this port, and of the
captain's motive for landing. As I was anxious to see the
town, he very kindly asked me to accompany him, and had
ordered dinner on board at, five o'clock, to which he had
invited his officers. This being a bar harbour, with a very
rapid river, the wind on shore makes a tremendous surf on
the bar. Though, when we left the ship yesterday morn-
ing, there was a light breeze, there was no danger to be
apprehended, and we crossed the bar without getting a
drop of spray. After calling on the commandant of the
town, the captain arranged all the business necessary for
sending home the prizes, and left the shore at half-past
thheiciT.
o'clock.
" The captain, knowing that the surf is often dangerous
on this bar, made many inquiries as to whether the sea had
risen, but could not learn of it being more than in the
morning, when crossing was perfectly safe. Indeed, neither
he nor I was at all aware of theincrease of surf en the bar,
return tloo
until Thee
w. e were
fi rnearlysts ian w
second turned her over. I saw the captain swim away man-_
jeltsit' u of
k-f it
us s afitillietdhtehne
too late
fully for the shore. then about half a mile off; but, encum-
bered with his reatcoat andboots, and having in addition to
struggle against the rapid current which set him backon the
breakers, he was not long able to bear up against it, and was
seen to go down by_one of the crew, the
,only rnan.saved
but_myself. The boat's crew were five, four of whom were
drowned with the captain ; three of them managed to get
on the boat's keel, but only one was able to keep his hold,
and he was washed off three times. By the gracious in-
terposition of Providence, I was enabled to get hold of
couple of oars and support myself until the surf-boat came,
which was about 20 minutes. They picked me up just as
I had let go the oar in a state of insensibility.
" The pilots entertain no very strong hopes of recover-
ing the bodies, from there being. a strong undercurrent set-
ting into the Baltic ; but ever% search is being made along ,
tinheenctosaswti,llabne,l,nimittiehebybottliayeofßtrhie aptticshcaoinnsiusifofourtliiaerpraronpgeer- "-55
e pyltitirr. 6110,f:hies remains.nown o shove,
and will himself see that all 4
the necessary 'arrangements are made. The inhabitants of 20
the town are almost wholly Protestant, and there are-many 25
churches. 25
" In conclusion, I can only express to you, my dear Sir,"
the wish that I .maybe of soniefurther service. Any wishes 2"
.2"
of your own with reference to the captain's property on
0
board will be attended to as a sacred duty by Mr. Here. 20
Perhaps, when Mrs. Foote is able to listen to these details, 2C,
they may tend in some way to soothe her, though I fear,
indeed, it Wiil,bierleoutnga,inv,e year long, ere such can happen. ",
sir
t 1
vary ru y yours,
fit.as H. aIA,PGETT.

" W. Efotlgso, rExq, PlymoUth."

ARRIVALS OF GOLD --Thren.vePsels arrived yesterday-
joun Australia -w.i th ..26,290.0unces valued at
1042890 C the Joshua, which left Melbourne 6rt
the 30'th of. January, with 12,000 ounces ; -the:Victoria,.
from .Adela!de theist of January, with 8,200. cancel
aod-the Thaines,.from the same port the 28th of Decere--
-bel.,.witli about 6,000 ounces. _They also .bring. canine
_o# wool and Aoliptr. . ir
oa Might 1009 ova?* of gokl!