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S N, APRIL 9, 1846.

the particular thanks of Lord Beresford in his general
orders upon that occasion.
He was then engaged in the battle of Orthes, on the
27th of February, for which he received the medal of
distinction (being the ninth conferred upon him in the
course of this war), and in the subsequent affairs and
operations, concluding with the battle of Toulouse, o❑
the 10th of April, which was followed by the armistice
and peace of 1814. He was again pointedly thanked
for his eminent services in Lord Beresford's general
orders, at the close of this campaign.
During the whole Peninsular war Sir H. Hardinge
never suffered himself to be absent from his duty by
sickness, leave of absence, or any other cause, except-
ing the very short periods (in neither case sufficient for
that purpose) which he was compelled to devote to the
cure of his wounds received at Vimeiro and Vittoria.
After this campaign his Sovereign was graciously
pleased to mark his sense of the signal services he had
performed, by conferring upon him a company in the
Grenadier Regiment of Guards, and creating him a
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
In this year Sir Henry Hardinge accompanied his
Noble Friend, Lord Stewart, to the Congress of Vi-
enna ; and in 1815, when Bonaparte returned from
Elba, and the war broke out anew, the Duke of Wel-
lington immediately placed him at the head-quarters of
the Prussian army, under Marshal Blucher, with the
rank of brigadier-general, as a military ambassador and
a confidential officer. _ _

This was an employment requiring not only firmness
and military talent, but great discretion, judgment,
and conciliation. His Grace had very rightly estimated
his officer, when he thought him fit for this important
mission, and the result fully justified his choice.
Continuing with the Prussian army, he was in the
obstinate and sanguinary battle of Ligny, on the 16th
June, (which was followed by that of Waterloo on the
18th', and after having given proofs of great military
talent throughout the day, in the suggestion of several
movements which tended much to retard the success of
the enemy, his left band was shattered by a cannon
ball at Marshal Blucher's side, whose unaffected grief
for the misfortune was the best proof of the high opinion
in which he held this gallant Englishman.
Sir Henry tied his handkerchief round the stump, and
remained on horseback till the bat le was over. His
conduct upon this occasion had been so meritorious, and
Marshal Blucher's report of the great service he had in-
dividually rendered so satisfactory, that the Puke of
Wellington devoted a separate Gazette (of the 30th of
June, 1815), to record his approbation of his behaviour,
and his regard for his wound.
He suffered this wound to detain him from his duty
as little as he had done his previous one, although
it occasioned the amputation of his hand, and from
some attendant circumstances become one of peculiar
torture and distress, for in one month from the time
he received it, he rejoined Marshal Blucher, at
Paris. He continued his duties at the Prusian
head-quarters during the whole time of the occu-
pation of France by the Allies, and the two following
facts will suffice to show how high his conduct had
placed him in the opinion both of the Monarch, at the
head-quarters of whose army he had been serving at
such a difficult and delicate crisis, and of that consum-
mate captain who commanded the allied armies. At the
Prussian review he was decorated by the King himsel
with the orders of Merit and of the Red Eagle, and the
Duke of Wellington personally presented him with the
sword which he wore, as a mark of his regard.
The long and brilliant series of services, hastily re-
corded in the foregoing memoir, will speak for them-
selves, and can require no comment.
B. D'URBAN, Major-General.
Hythe, Feb. 9, 1820.

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