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services of the late Lord LONDONDERRY do,
in truth, merit at the hands of his
immediate survivors some such grateful and con-
spicuous evidence of their recognition. His gal-
lantry as one of the veterans of the Peninsula was
proved upon many a well-fought field under the
orders of WELLINGTON. His personal prowess was
frequently displayed elsewhere, but never more
conspicuously than during the famous battle of
Fuentes d'Onore (May 5,1311), when, as theclassic
Historian of the War himself records, " General
CHARLES STEWART, joining in the charge, took the
French Colonel LAMOTTE, fighting hand to hand."
(NaPrzß's Penin. War, book xii. oh. v.) An in-
cident celebrated no less pointedly by the Euro-
pean Annalist, Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON Eur.
ch. lxiii., s. 92.) As for the diplomatic achieve-
ments of the late Marquis of LONDONDERRY, they,
too, are inscribed in imperishable characters
upon the tablets of history, those memorable
and romantic annals which recount the Down-
fall of the Great NAPOLEON. It was—ALISON
himself tells us in his record of the events which
marked the close of 1813—it was by reason of
"the able and courteous efforts of Sir CHARLES
STEWART" afterwards Marquis of LONDONDERRY,
aided by those of General Count Pozzo nI BORGO,
that BERNADOTTE, at -a most critical juncture,
was "retained during the campaign in a course
int conformity with the objects of the alliance."
(Hist. Eur. ch. lxxix. s. 42.) It was through Sir
CHARLES STEWART'S personal remonstrances that
at, last, during that same momentous campaign,
his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of SWEDEN,
that same tricky ex-Jacobin, ex-Frenchnaan, ex-
everything good, had, and indifferent, BERNA-
DOTTE, was at length induced to bring his troops
on the 16th of October to Landsburg, and
on the 17th to the heights of Beitenfeld. An
important occurrence at that period, and one
which was actually brought about by a letter of
remonstrance addressed to the Crown Prince by
Sir CHAALES STEWART, then accredited as the
British Plenipotentiary in the north of Germany—
a letter "penned with respect, but military frank-
ness, and breathing a warm but not undeserved
spirit of patriotic indignation."—(Hist. Eur. ch.
lxxxi., s. 48.) A letter so bold indeed and out-
spoken in its language that BERNADOTTE, in the
true fashion of a Gascon, could not help resenting
it a short time afterwards by thus gasconading with
a vapoury flourish as they encountered—" Com-
ment, General STEWART ! quel droit avez vous de
m'ecrire ? Ne rapellez vous pas que je suis
Prince du Suede, un des plus grands generaux de
Page ? Et si vous etiez ama place, que penseriez
vous si quelqu'un vous ecrivait comme vous
m' avez ecrit ? " In fine, it was in consequence
of the vigilant and sleepless watchfulness of the
English Military Plenipotentiary, Sir CHARLES
STEWART. (who again employed very successful and
most energetic remonstrances to the end that
BERNADOTTE might not play false to the Allies at
a juncture of extraordinary emergency) that the
PRINCE-ROYAL of Sweden was, in spite of himself
as it were, compelled at last to abandon alto-
gether the project of allowing DAYOUST and the
garrison of Hamburg the opportunity for escaping
by means of a capitulation. " And thus," says
ALISON in recounting this latter circumstance,
" the same eminent and patriotic officer, who, by
his moral courage on the eve of the battle of
Leipsic, had gained for the Allies the decisive
advantage of bringing the PRINCE-ROYAL'S
army up to the charge on that eventful
day, now rendered to his country the
not less important service of preventing a capitu-
lation which, by restoring twenty-five thousand
veteran troops to the standards of NAPOLEON,
might have entirely changed the fate of the War
next spring in France."—(Hist. Eur., ch. lxxxii.,
s. 39.) Such, in brief, are among the more
conspicuous achievements recorded in regard to
Sir CHARLES STEWART, afterwards third Marquis
of ]LONDONDERRY, in his twofold position- as
Soldier and as a Diploinatiat.
The Peaceful Labours which marked the latter
portion of Lord LONDONDERRY'S lifetime are—we
cannot but think it—yet more memorable, yet
more remarkable, yet more eminently entitled to
some public tribute of grateful and honourable
commemoration. They were achievements so re-
markable, and we believe we do not exaggerate
when we add, so entirely unparalleled as the achieve-
ments of a single individual, that they elicited
some years back from no less important a person-
age than Sir ROBERT PEEL, speaking authorita-
tively as the Prime Minister of England, a pane-
gyric in every way very notable. What were a
few of these home enterprises, of these purely
pacific and industrial achievements ? They in-
clude the digging out of a Harbour upon a
barren and rocky coast, and the building up
of a Town now numbering within it very nearly
five thousand inhabitants—the town and harbour
of Sealtain, henceforth Lord LONDONDERRY'S most
enduring monument ! They include, moreover,
these peaceful labours towards the close of his
career, the daring project of an entire Railway
—a passenger line—a work unexampled before or
since as the undertaking of a single individual,
as an enterprise from first to last his own pri-
vate property—the railroad for goods and pas-
sengers now uniting Seahana with Sunderland.
Besides all this, the princely originator and promo
ter of these gigantic undertakings had to conduct
the working of a Colliery Property known to be
the largest anywhere in the possession of a single
family, a property extending over an area of some
12,000 acres, producing upon an average
1,000,000 tom of coals per annum, and neces

sitating the disbursement every year in wages
alone, exclusive of contracts, of no less a sum than
135,0001. sterling. With an earnest view to
the social and intellectual well-being of the thou-

sands of " families" thus employed in connection
with the Harbour, with the Town, with the Col-
lieries, with the Railway, schools have been

erected, churches endowed, everything that in-
genuity could well devise or munificence rapidly
accomplish, Durham has witnessed, long since
set on foot by tho late Marquis, and very re-
cently in several instances happily completed by
his relict the Marchioness Dowager of LONDON-

DERRY. Hence—remembering all these things,
remembering the exploits of the Soldier in
Holland and in the Peninsula, on the

heights of Busaco and in the hand•to-hand en

counter of Fuentes d'Onore ; remembering the

brilliant successes of the diplomatist in 1813 in

regard to the eve of LF)ipsic and in reference
to the garrison of Hamburg ; above all
bearing in mind his mere beneficent and, in every

way, more remarkable achievements of a pacific

character—the town and harbour of Seaham, the

railway from Seaham to Sunderland, the col-
lieries, the schools, the churches, those products
at once of daring enterprise and personal munifi-

celaea—vre cannot but deem the late lamented

Marquis of LONDONDERRY one who, 112 truth,
"deserved well of his country" in very many

particulars. we cannot but regard his memory
as an object very worthy, indeed, of a public

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monumental commemoration.

AMMIICAN MAIL.--The steamer Ericsson sailed from
Livetpool for New York yesterday morning with teri
paeaeogere and a fair cargo, besides the usual mails.