The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

MILITARY REdORD of GENERAL JAMES'STUART,
Late Colonel of the 72d Regiment of Foot.
This Officer was appointed Ensign on the Ist October 1761,
and a Lieutenant on the 7th December 17G4, in the 64th (or 2d
Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot.
Lieutenant Stuart served in America from August 1768 to
October 1778. He was in the actions at Long Island, White
Plains, Brandywine, and Germantown.
He was promoted to a Company the Ist January 1770, and,
being Captain of the Grenadiers, was present at most of the
other actions and skirmishes in which the army under Sir W.
Howe was engaged, during the time that Officer commanded in
America.

Capt. Stuart succeeded to a Majority on the 18th December
1777, in the 78th, now the 72d Regiment, and was appointed
Lieut.-Colonel, by brevet, on the 23d May 1781. He served in
the East•lndies from 6th May 1781 to March 1805.
He received the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 72d Regiment
on the 13th February 1782.
Lieut.-Col. Stuart was in the action at Amge, 2d June, 1782 ;
in the affair at Cnddalore, 13th June, 1783 ; at the siege and
capture of the fortress Pollyghautcherry, 21st December, 1783 ;
in command of a detachment of 4,000 men, sent on an expedition
againSt the Little Murwar Rajah in 1788 ; at the action at Ral-
lengoody, in the Little Murwar country ; at the action and
capture of the fortress of Caliacoil, the capital of the Little
Murwar country; and in command of a detachment that be-
sieged and captured the fortress of Dindigull.
This Officer received the local rank of Colonel 13th June
1782, and appointed Colonel by brevet, on the Bth of August
following, and Aide-de-Camp to the King.
He commanded the right wing of the army under Lord Corn-
wallis, at the siege and capture of Bangalore, 21st March 1791;
and also in the action at Scringapatam the 15th of May fol-

lowing.
Colonel Stuart commanded a detachment that besieged and
captured the fortress of Savondroog, 21st of December; and of
a detachment that besieged and captured the fortress of Outre-
droog, 24th December, 1791. He alsos'commanded the right
wing of the Army, at the storming,of the lines of Tippoo Sul-
tan, on the island of Seringapatam, on the 6th and 7th of
February, 1792.
He was appointed Major-Gentral on the 25th February,
1795, and selected to command the Army ordered on the expe-
dition against the island of Ceylon, in the same year.
Major-General Stuart was present at the siege and capture
of the fortresses of Trincomalee and Osnaburgh, and their de-
pendencies, on the 26th and 31st of August, 1795 ; and at the
siege and capture of the fortress, of Columbo, and its depen-
dencies, on the fall of which, the whole island of Ceylon sur-
rendered on the 16th of February, 1796, to his Majesty's arms.
He received the local rank of Lieutenant-General on the 3d
of May, 1796, and was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the
Army, under the Presidency of Bombay, in which he conti-
nued till July, 1800. He commanded in the action with Tip-
poo Sultaun's Army, where that Prince served in person, and
in which he was defeated at Sidesin, on the 6th of March, 1799
—was also in command of the Bombay Army, at the siege and
capture of Seringatam, the 4th of May, 1799, and was ap,
pointed; on the 24th of February, 1801, Commander-in-Chief
of the Army on the Coast of Coromandel.
This Officer returned to England in 1805; was appointed
Colonel of the 82d Regiment, 2d of March, 1797—Colonel of
72d Foot, 29th October-1798—Lieutenant-General, 20th April,
1802, and General, Ist of Jan. 1812. He died in 1815.