The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

GEA ERAL MANNEAGIL-1.11.

• .On Saturday (26th nit.) died r via.,;stone, in !he'
441,h r ear of his age, nijor7Gener.il Cifote Man-
rtingliana; Colonel of the 95th (or rifle). regimen' of
foot, and of tile Equet ,ies to leis Majesty. Tire
good good an, allant otheer a. stconit son of the late
Charle- Eski. of Thorpe, in Surrey, a
ge.itien.3l.l rat real 'integrity and honour ; torrierly
one of ittr Council of Fort William, in 'Bengal. The
late C4enecals Si, Eyre, Coote, and Sir Robert Boyd,
K. B. w, re'nearly related to Major-General Man-
nini;ham on his mother's side; who was idaughter oT
the tale respected Col. Hutchinson, lorn.erly Go.
vernor of St. Helena. It was under hi 4 uncle St:'
Robert Boyd that the Gentrai commenced his ap-
prenticAlip in arms, at the memorable dettrce of
Gibraltar ; being then a subaltern in (Sir itoi.)l.'s
own), the brave 39th regiment, in which corps he
rose to the rank of Captain. He was afterwards Ma-
jor'ot the 45th regiment, which he commanded for
some time in the Island of Grenada, greatly to his.
own ctedit, and to the satisfaction ofat he inhabitants.
Those distinguished officers, Lieut.-Colonels Guard,
Jasper Nicholls, being then 'subalterns under his
command. _ _

On the breaking out of the war in 1793, Major
Manninghatir had th- honour of being appointed to
the infantry battalion formed in the Islands, in
order to join Sir Charles Grey on hisscoming out to
subdue the French West Indies, and was a partaker
in the glory of that campaign, :it the reduction of
Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadaloupe. During the
attack on the former, he cormiianded the detach-
ment which took Pigeon Island, and was particu—
larly distinguished by the Commander in Chief in
General Orders on that occasion ; he was afterwards
seleCted to carry home the dispatches, announcing
the capture of Guadaloupe. He soon rose to the
rank of Lieuienant7Colonel, first in the 8 ist, and
afterwards in tile 41st regiment of foot ; and in
1795 he was appointee Adjutant-General of the
forces, in St. Domingo, then under the command of
Lieut.-General Gordon Forbes. -While upon this
service, he had the misfortune to be severely wound-
ed by an ambuscade of the enemy ; to suffer great
ly in his health 'by the climate and yellow fever;
and above all, to lose his beloved brother and CoM-
paniou, Lieut.-Colonel Buyd Alanningham (by a
year
.only his junior), who, after pursuing from
childhood the same honourable and promising ca-
reer with himself, fell an early vitiirn to that pesti-
lential climate, when Lieutenant-Colonel of the 81t
regiment, and Commandant of the fortress of Cape
Nicola Mole, under ihe flag staff of which his mor-
tal remains now lie interred-'--" A Soldier's Se-
pulchre !"
Upon Lieutenant-Colonel Mannitigham's return
to England he had the honour to be favoured by the
-notice and piratection of his gracious Sovereign, the
friend of every deserving Officer ; and was in 1798
advaeeed to he one of his Majesty's Aides-de-Camp,
with the rank of Colonel, and wen. after appointed
one of his Majesty's Equerries. On its being most
judiciously determined to raise a corps of riflemen
in the year 1800, Colonel Manningbain was selected
to command and form it, as having always applit.d
bis attention and experienced mind particularly io
the discipline and service of light troops. How well
be succeeded in formic g and establishing that corps
(now the 95th regiment)
.under considerable dith-
culties, ma'y be sufficiently known by a reference to
its most distinguished services on innumerable oc-
casions ; and to the well earned fame of the Officers
who are, and have been the brilliant ornaments of it ;
Major-General William Stewart, Colonels Beck-
- worth, Wade, M`Leod, Travers, &c. &c. &c.—
Though one of the youngest corps in the army, it
has already gone far to rival the glories of the most
ancient 'and renowned regiments of the British line
of infantry.
In 1805 Col. Manningham was promoted to the
rink of Major-Gen. and Was employed for some time
On the Home Staff: Last year, when Spain, arousing
from the torpor of ages, bravely determined to shake
off the yoke which the perfidy of a i) rant, and the
baseness and cowardiCe of its own Government bad
attempted to impose upon her, Major-General
Nanningham anxiously sought permission to serve
in the arm, w hich was preparing to assist such ge-
nerous et-forts e and was accordingly appointed to
'the division commanded by the gallant Sir David
Baird, whom he accompanied to Corunua, as next to
him in authority. On the junction being etletted
with the mAn army on the Duero, Major-General
Manning,am commanded a brigade, consisting of
the 3d battalion Royals, Ist ditto, 26th regiment,
32d ditto, 81st regiment, and after sustaining with
them the almost incredible hardships and fatigues of
the latter part of that campaign,, had, at last the con-
solation and satislgtion, at the head of those brave
filen, of successfully repelling 'the forious atiacks of
anpenor numbers of the enemy at the battle of Co-
runiia, and of essentially contributing, by his steadi-
ness and bravery, to the victory -of that memorable
day. His name,is therefore handed down to poste-
rity, encircled with never fading laurels, among the
other distinguished heroes.of that suffering but gal-
lant army ; and his memory is perpetuated along
with theirs in the recorded approbation and unani-
mous thanks of his Sovereign, and of the united
Yarliament of Great Britain and Ireland. ,
Ethic coronat cpus; for here the scene must close;
here was he destined to finish his honourable career.
In a very short period after General Manning-
ham's return to England, in January last, his health
began visibly to decline ; and it is probable that the
excessive fatigues and sufferings he underwent dur-
ing that most severe service in Gailicia, aCling upon
a Constitution already in a degree affected by long
West India service,' and the wounds received there,
produced those feverish and other fatal symp-
toms which hutried him to tile grave at the early
age of 44 years, ripe indeed in glory, but imma-
turely for his farriv, his friends; above all, for his
country. " Salis glorice ; patio parum."—
There never was a time when our beloved Coun-
try could' less 11'.ord to lose any of the truly good,
honourable, an.t brave among her suns. Os how
many, ata's ! have a few short years, nay months,
deprived eer ! S. methng has been said of this la-
nae. !cd Oincer's public life; his personal and, pri-
vate virtues will ever survive in the memory of
Iliose who bad the happiness ot'knovving him. There

never existed a man of- a sweeter or milder temper,
of more true !Concur and-worth: His countenance
tue.index of his mind and disposition ; both
v, .21e equally amiable. His soul was pure and un-
-I,utted ; he
.was indeed a CURIITIAN as well as a
►SOLDIER.

He married Mary, one of the daughters of the
Rev. Mr. Pollen, of Little Bookham, Surrey,
who, with tour infant children, are left to.deplore
their irreparable loss.
Requiescat in Pace!,

AGRICULTURAL REPORTS fw AUGUST.