The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES
OF THE EYE. By William Jeoffreson, late Sur-
geon to the Bombay Eye Infirmary, in the lion. _Ewa
India Company's Service. London, Renshaw, 1844.
Mr. Jeaffreson, the author of this work, possesses
advantages for the study of the diseases of which it
treats which fall to the lot of few practitioners, and
fortunately for the interests of science and humanity,
he was by his previous studies and acquirements
enabled to make the most of those advantages. He
was a pupil of the late John Abernethy, the most
accomplished British surgeon of the present century,
to whose merits he pays the following well-deserved
tribute of respect :
" It was the author's good fortune to be educated
under the justly celebrated and talented surgeon Mr.
Abernethy—a man who was ever more anxious to point
out great and important analogies in nature, than to
fritter away truth by fine-spun differences and dicine-
Lions; a man who was foreitiost in vindicating the great
general principles of surgery, and in showing the coo-
nexion of so-called local diseases with constitutional
states, and their successful treatment by means directed
through the system as a whole. The sound doctrines
taught by this great surgeon, imparted as they were in
language whose eloquence was its simplicity, and further
impressed upon the minds of his pupils with the affee-
donate earnestness rather of a parent than a master,
could not fail to make lasting impressions on the minds
all, and in the calling of life into which after circum-
4ances led me, I cannot express too strongly my grati-
tude to a friend and teacher, from whose precepts I early
learnt to look upon all affections of the eye in oonne/cion
with their constitutional origin and treatment."
In 1822 Mr. Jeaffreson was nominated by the Di-
rectors of the East India Company superintendent
oculist at Bombay, and was instructed to establish a
hospital there devoted solely to eye diseases. Patients
trom the most remote parts of India and Persia
flocked to Bombay to be treated by Mr. Jeaffreson
for diseases of the eye; and from the month of
January, 1824, to that of October, 1834, he attended
no less than 53,391 cases, and in 36,564 of these cases
the patients regained perfect sight. The results of
this extensive practice are recorded in the volume
before us, which must, we feel convinced, become the
text-book on the subject on which it treats. Among
the many improvements introduced by the author, we
would particularly call attention to his new operation
for the removal of cataract, an operation of a nature
almost painless, and totally unattended with danger
either to the eye or the life of the patient. On his
way back to England he visited Egypt, and the fol-
lowing observations on the manner in which not only
ophthalmia, but plague, may be propagated by the
oonsmon fly in that country, are well worthy the at-
tention of travellers :

" The habit of the Egyptians is to crowd themselves
much together ; their mode of living is very poor ; they
spend a considerable portion of time in the bazaars and
other public places, where the profusion of flies, at all
times sufficiently great, is aggravated by the exposure of
dates, raisins, figs, and other sweets, by which they are
attracted ; it is to these flies, catrying the purulent se-
cretion from one eye to the other, that I believe the ex-
tension of the disease is frequently due ; and I would
strongly urge all persons in their travels through Egypt.
to be provided with veils for the purpose of keeping off
these insects ; gauze, or dark-coloured spectacles, may
protect the eyes against the glare of the sun, or partially
even against dust, but they do not prevent flies from
settling on the lids. My belief is that plague itself is
thus frequently propagated."
The author concludes by giving general directions
for the preservation of the eyes, for which purpose he
strongly recommends cold bathing-, The following
observations on the Soorma, used by the females of
India to heighten their personal charms, ,are curious.
Soorma may perhaps ere long become an Article of
the toilette in European as well as in Indian boudoirs

" In conclusion, I shall take the liberty of adverting to
a curious custom which prevails amongst the females of
India, who are in the habit of using a black powder
called Soorma, which they do not put into their eyes, but
paint with great delicacy on the roots of both the upper
and lower lashes. This, besides contributing much to
their personal appearance, by increasing that softness off
the eye, so pecuiliar a feature of Eastern beauty, they
conceive affords them some protection against cataract, a
disease too prevalent amongst them. It certainly has the
effect of keeping the eyes cool, and probably, by absorb-
ing some of the superfluous rays of light by which they
are dazzled and annoyed, may afford some protection as
well as comfort. Much on the same principle, that is, by
diminishing the access of a glare of light to the eyes,
are common eye-shades useful; which, whether worn in
the shape of a green shade over the eyes, or over the
candle or lamp itself, are very valuable means of saving
these important organs. Such practice, however bene-
ficial in health during great exertion of the eyes, as pre-
ventive of disease, must not be confounded with the use
of shades, and still more so of bandages, in many forms
of chronic disease, when a moderate exposure of the eyes
to light, and a free access to them of pure air, are highly
beneficial by acting as mild stimulants, and if the term
may be allowed, as local tonics."

FOREIGN LIBRARY.
Chapman and Hall, London, 1845.
The present Number of this comprehensive Mis-
cellany forms the Seventh Part of Schlosser's His-
tory of the Eighteenth Century, which has been
translated by a gentleman named Davidson, under
the immediate superintendence of the author. A
considerable portion of the Part is devoted to details
of the famous Seven Years' War, in which Frederick
of Prussia acquired such general renown, and in the
course of their details the historian furnishes us with
brief but graphic portraits of Louis the Fifteenth
and his shameless mistress, Madame de Pompadour,
who ruled France more absolutely even than the King.

A CLERGYMAN COMMITTED FOR.
TWO MONTHS.

Yesterday the Reverend Joba Dean, who described
himself as a clergyman of the Established Church, ap-
peared at Clerkenwell, pursuant to his bail, charged
with being drunk and riotous, and also with having vio-
lently assaulted police-constables 95 and 163 G, and
Jane Dean, his wife, waa charged with being drunk and
riotous. . .

Constable 95 G stated that at a quarter to one o'clock
on Sunday morning he heard a great noise in Goswell-
street, which proceeded from the prisoners. He told
them to desist, when the male prisoner told him to go
to h-1, and said they would make as much noise as they
pleased. They were both drunk. They continued their
noise, and on again requesting them to be quiet, the
male prisoner said the police were a gang of thieves, and
might go to h-1. He was about to take them into cus-
tody, when the Rev. Gentleman struck him two ♦iolent
blows on the head with his stick, and it required several
policemen to take him, when he behaved in a most vio-
lent manner. At the station-house he sprang on wit-
ness, seized him by the throat, and said be would de for
him. There were two gentlemen with prisoners when ho
first saw 'them, who were very noisy, but they escaped.
They were not singing songs or psalms.
Constable 103 was assaulted by the male prisoner. A
large mob was attracted by the noise. Mrs. Dean said
she would do as she pleesed. He confirmed the evidence
of 95 G.
220 N and 205 G confirmed the evidence. Mrs. Dean
attempted to rescue the male prisoner, and begged of
them not to break her husband's leg.
The lawyer's clerk said it was unfortunate that the two
gentlemen who were with his clients were not present,
and that the police had acted with great and unneces-
sary violence on the occasion. He would leave the Rev.
Gentleman to make his own statement.

The Rev. Gentleman said himself and wife had been
spending the evening with some friends, who were play-
ing on a key organ, and on returning towards home they
were talking about the music and humming a tune, when
the officer, 103, told them to hold their " din." and he
shook prisoner violently on coming up to him a second
time. lie denied the assaults, or having act,.d in the'
wsy attributed by the policeman. His wife fainted away
twice on the road to the station-house. She was not
drunk, she only had one glass of liquor during the day,
and he had only taken two glasses of ale and two glasses
of brandy and water.
Mr. CONDE said, if he were a clergyman he was now
in a most degraded position, and he hoped, for the sake
of the clergy generally, but more espeelaly for himself,
that his de,criptiun of himself was fictitious.. If the
police had acted as he imputed, they were nut fit to hold
their situations any longer. lie knew them to be proper
officers, and thought they had done their duty. The
only question for him was, whether he should commit
him to the House of Corn cti,,n, or fine him 51.
Inspector Barton, G, said the prisoners were only-
living at a coffee and beer-shop, and had no luggage or
boxes there.
Mr. COMBE said it was impossible, in his opinion, that
he could be a clergyman, living at such a place, and be-
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THE WEATHER.-'---The atmosphere WAS so ex-
tremely thick yesterday on the river, and at the docks
and wharfs on either side, and it was so excessively dark
during nearly the whole of the business portion of the
day, that all business was completely suspended, it being
found impossible to distinguish either the marks anti
numbers or the contents of the packages which were
being landed and housed, or examined for delivery. It
necessarily caused immense inconvenience to trade, and
particularly during the present time, when, from the
long prevalence of easterly winds, and the sudden influx
of shipping into the whole of the departments in the
port, great difficulty is found in providing officers to
meet the emergency without the hindrance caused by
the dark and unfavourable state of the weather. The
gloominess afforded rare opportunity to smugglers and
other ill-disposed persons to carry their operations into
effect, and it is much feared that we shall hear of nume-
rous robberies having been successfully accomplished in
consequence.
FATAL SHIPWRECK.—Letters received in town
inform us of the total loss, in Carnarvon Bay, of the
ship William Turner, commanded by Captain Evans,
with all hands on board. The melancholy catastrophe
occurred either during the night of the 10th or early on
the morning of the 11th inst. The wind was blowing
strongly from the south-west at the time. The William
Turner was 488 tons burden per register, and was
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING rArERS Or YESTERDAY.
fiLOBE.—The protest of the nine Bishops of the
Irish Church against the system of National Educa-
tion in Ireland, is a document of portentous import
in the present state of that country. It is not merely
a manifesto against the policy of the Government,
from a quarter which wields immense influence
over the minds of the party that materially as-
sisted in bringing Sir Robert Peel into office ; by
whose support he must be upheld, or fall. This
would, in a party sense, invest the document with
importance ; but in this only. It would, indeed,
indicate a deeply-seated dissatisfaction, embedded in
the minds of the clergy of the Irish Church, with the
course which the Government had marked out for
itself. It breathes a mortifying sense of the decep-
tions which had been practised upon them, under which
they had been induced to invest Ministers with power,
in the expectation and belief that the puwer they con-
ferred would be employed for purposes materially op-
posed to those for which it has been employed ; and that
the first opportunity would be taken to rectify the
mistakes they had made, and to undo the mischiefs
they had wrought against themselves. To mere poli-
tical partisans this state of things would be a source of
satisfaction. The disappointments 'and complaints of
the Episcopal Protesters and Remonstrants, and the
sympathies they have moved in the clergy and laity
of the Irish Church, would be regarded as an admis-
sion of their chagrin. Having allowed themselves to
be duped into a belief that Sir Robert Peel would
abolish the National Education Board, and consign
Ireland to the curse of ignorance, to please the bigots
of the Church, they mourn their disappointment.
But this would be indeed a narrow and unworthy
view of the subject. The question is too important in
its character and consequences to admit of its being
confined within the contracted space of party politics.
The protest of the Bishops is a manifesto against the
Roman Catholic religion—the religion of the great
mass of the Irish people. It is, in effect, a denial of
their right to the benefits of secular instruction by
means of funds provided by the State, except they
submit to have those benefits conferred under the di-
rection and control of the Established Clergy. The
creeds, prayers, and other formularies of the Protes-
tant'Church are to be in constant use in the schools,
which the Protestors and Remonstrants insist are the
only schools which the State can consistently recognise.
To these schools, then, the Roman Catholic children
are to be brought for education by their poor Roman
Catholic parents, or to be excluded from the benefits
of secular instruction. It is even deemed a concession
—a large and liberal concession—that participation in
the use of these Protestant creeds, prayers, and formu-
laries is not exacted as an imperative condition. The
Roman Catholic children, we are told, are only to be
present when these Protestant prayers are used by the
Protestant children—they need not pray ! They are
required to be present when the creeds are rehearsed
by the Protestant childrep—they are not required to
express their assent to the articles of Protestant
belief. Roman Catholic children are to be the daily,
and almost hourly, spectators and auditors of
these religious practices and prayers, in the sch6olS
to which they are to obtain admission only on
these terms. This is the modest request—the
rational desire of these Protestant Prelates, and
those who labour to advance the object at which they
aim I The spirit of proselytism is so powerful in
Episcopal bosoms, and the means they would employ
to win poor deluded Papists from the errors in doc-
trify-and practice of Rome, so well-adapted to effect
their purpose, that they would debar them from se-
cular instruction as a proof of the pious regard they
. cherish for their immortal interests ! This may be,
and probably is, perfectly consistent with the spirit
of proselytism—we know that it is diametri-
cally opposed both to the genius of Protestantism
and to the precepts of Christianity. But what
will be its probable effects on the popular feel-
ing in Ireland ? There it will be regarded as an
aggressive movement of the Protestant Established
Church against the religion of the people. The ani-
mosities of rival churches will be roused by its means ;
and, the hopes of returning quiet will be disappointed
by the animosities it will fan into a flame. The heads
of the Protestant Clearch are, we fear, answerable fok
this. The flames of agitation will be stimulated by
the materials it supplies. Those who make a gain of
the dissensions and dissatisfactions which disturb
society in Ireland, and fan the feelings of discontent
when they appear to subside, will thank the nine Pro-
testant Bishops, for their manifesto against Popery ;
and appeal to its contents as a justification for re-
newed vituperation of Protestantism.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London Nem Price Current of Jan. 14.)
SP:SAL—To-day there was little alteration in the
vain.° of West India Sugar; but the business trans-
acts d was extremely limited, and which was owing to
the dark state of the weather preventing the samples
iron t being properly inspected ; a public sale of 106 hhds
3 toes of Barbadoes was in consequence postponed.
lisusrrius.—A better demand has been experienced
for this description of Sugar, but the market has been
well supplied, particularly. with bright yellow qualities ;
previous rates are fully supported, indeed, in several in-
rt.ances, good and fine yellow fetched 6d per cwt advance.
At auction 8,010 bass 278 casks were all sold—fine yel-
low at 62s to 655, good mid and good 56s 6d to 608, mid
33s 6d to 565, low 52s to 53e, fine brown 518 to 518 6d,
low and very low dark brown 36s 6d to 40s per cwt;
nearly the whole consisted of middling, good and fine
yellow. - -
'EAST INDIA.—This afternoon three parcels of Bengal
Surer, amounting to 3,872 bags, were submitted to pub-
lic competition ; white all sold at steady rates—that is
to say, flee at 66s to 66s 6d, good 63s to 655, mid 61s to
625, low 595, damp and washed 58a to 64s 6d, sound
grey 591, mid yellow 55s to 568 6d, but the brown, of
winch the bulk consisted, only partly found buyers
at. former terms; mid sound at 42s to 428 6d, low damp
388 to 39s 6d. and mid to good 413 to 44s per cwt. A
public isle of 5,000 bags of Madras, and two of 2,100
white Bengal were postponed in consequence of the dark
state of the weather preventing the samples from being
properly inspected.
FOREIGN.—YeIIow Havannah Sugar has been much
inquired for, but business has been checked by
the short supply at market, and the stiff rates that
are insisted upon. 1,000 boxes have been sold pri-
vately since Tuesday last at 21s 6d to 23s for mid-
dling to fine quality. At auction 1,197 chests were
put up, the damaged amounting to 535 chests sold
at 19s 6d to 21s 6d fur slightly, and at 18s to 20s for da-
maged, but the sound was taken in above the value,
middling and good middling at 21s 6d to 22s 6d, ordi-
nary 19s 6d to 21s, and fine brown 19s per cwt, but the
chief part has since been sold at those rates. Brazil good
and fine Bahia realised 18s to 19s, and white 208 Gd to
248 6(1 for fine quality. In other sorts there has been
rather more business transacted at previous quotations.
REFINED.—To-day the home trade were less inclined
to purchase Refined Goods, and there was more desire
on the part of refiners to sell. Brown Lumps at 71s,
and Standard Lumps 73s per cwt. Bonded Crushed
Sugar is greatly wanted at 31s per cwt, but at which
there are no sellers.
Motum:S.—West India is much wanted, but a fur-
ther advance in prices being required, has tended to
cheek business ; the sales amount to 300 puns, chiefly at
23s Griper cwt for Antigua, being fully the former worth.
/last India are inquired for at 148 to 17s per cwt. The
stock of all sorts is diminishing, and holders manifest
firmness.
Rim—This afternoon Importers of Bengal Rice were
more inclined to realise, and 1530 pockets 1764 bags at
public sale were mostly sold at a decline of 6d per cwt,
mid white went at 104 6d to 11s, good mid lls to
Ils 6d, second and third class 98 to 104, fourth class Bs,
sea damaged and repacked 8s to 8s 6d per cwt. - •
COFFEE.—West India is not much wanted at present
for home consumption, and the market has been better
supplied this day week, still holders have refused to re-
duce their prices for clean sorts, but for unclean Berbice
a decline on the former value of 2s to 3s per cwt has
taken place ; the quantity of Coffee brought forward
has proved more than sufficient for the wants of the trade.
This afternoon at public sale 250 bags of Manilla Coffee
were sold at 968 to 36s 6d for fine ordinary pale, 348 6d
sea damaged first class, 348 for second class, 29s for third
class, and 30s for sea damaged and repacked. Ceylon
met with attention, and 43S bags at public sale were all
sold at very full rates : good ordinary pale went at 52s
to 524 6d, dark Plantation 558 to 51s, find yellow 86s 6d,
mid 7.2 s 6d. 165 bags of bulked Bahia were taken in,
good ord 29s to 328, ord 26s 6d to 275, and triage 25s per
cwt.

TlA.—Merchants still show firmness, and none hls
been offered at public sale, and at present there is no-
thing declared, but the market is not so brisk as it was.
To-day there was little inclination to purchase Tea, but
merchants insisted upon full rates, common sound
Congou was not to be purchased under lid, Twankay
Is 3d, and clean Pouchong 7d per lb. Duty has been paid
at this pert on 419,7001b5, during the past week.
COCOA.—The market has become quiet for West
India, but merchants will not take lower rates, on ac-
count of the smallness of the stock. At auction a part
only of 459 bags of Trinidad found buyers at the former
currency ; good middling and good red at 48s to 503,
middling 44s to 46s 6d, low 42s 6d to 43s 6d, and grey
4ls to 438 per cwt. Foreign, however, is much wanted,
and the supply being small, a further advance has taken
place in prices. At auction 80 bags Bahia fetched 37s
to 39s per cwt for good red.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There has been a
good business transacted in Calcutta Rum. In Leeward,
several purchases made, proof selling at 2s 2id to 2s 3d
per gallon. In Demerara the transactions are upon a
more extended scale, at 3s 3d for 32 to 33 per cent over-
'proof. In Jamaica 300 puns have been disposed of-28
to 33 per cent ovenproof at 3s 6d to 3s 80i for fair and
middling quality, and 33 to 35 per cent over at 4s
per gallon for good. In Brandy an increased business has
Pe.n transacted ; an advance in prices of ld per gallon
has taken place for the best descriptions ; interior and
middling are held with firmness. We quote Cognac best
brands, of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 3d, puns
5s Id ; ditto, 1839, hhds 3s, puns 48 10d ; ditto, 1840,
bh,:ts'ss,' puns 4s 10d ; ditto, 1841, hhds 4s I Id, puns
4s 9d; do 1842, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d; do 1843, hhds
4s 6d, puns 41 4d; common, 2s 8d to 2s 11 d ; mid to good
Middling, 3s to 3s 10d; and Bordeaux common, 2s 6d to
2s 8d per gallon. Of Geneva the stock here is small;
prices are in consequence firm; shipping sort is 10d to
la 1 ldoptld fine 2a 6d to .3s 6d. For English Corn
Spirita I 2d per gallon, cash, is readily obtained, and
JOs 3d fo small quantities. To-day iomo parcels of

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Calcutta Rum were sold at 2s to 2s ld, and Leewards at
2s 2id to 2s 3d per gallon, proof. There were several
inquiries for Jamaica, but the rates offered were such
that holders would not accept.

FRUIT.—To-day there was much activity in the Cur-
rant market, and a further advance took place in prices,
Patras fetching 49s to 51s, and Zante and Cephalonia
48s per cwt.
SPICES.—This afternoon at public sale 27 chests of
Nutmegs were sold at full rates ; ord Penang 2s 9d to
3s Id, mid 3s 2d to 3s sd, good mid and good 3s 6d to
3s 10d, fine 4s 2d, mouldy 2s 7d to 3s Id, worm-eaten
10d ; 6 chests of Mace sold at 2s 8d to 2s 10d,
for mitldling, and was considered cheap. Black Pepper
met with increased attention, and 2247 bags of Malabar
at auction were all disposed of at full rates ; that is to
say---half heavy clean brown at 31d, good light 3kd ;
sea-damaged first class 3d to aid, second class 2id, and
third class 2id per lb.
Woot.—Public sales of Colonial are advertised for
next month ; there will be a larger quantity brought
forward than was expected. There has been a fair busi-
ness transacted in Foreign, and very full rates are paid.
English has been in excellent demand, and the prices
given are id to Id per lb above those that prevailed at
the close of the past year.
liintoo.—There has been a fair business transacted in
Bengal since this day week. and out of the present sales
300 chests have been disposed of at about 2d per lb
under those of October rates ; the chief part consisted
of shipping descriptions. In other sorts of East India
there has been rather more business done at prices rather
under those of the last auctions.
SALTPETRE.—This afternoon rough was sought after,
and 1,360 bags of Calcutta at public sale were all dis-
posed of at Gd advance, and fine grey 51 per cwt refrac-
tion, fetched 26s 6d; 4; ditto, 275, common grey 101 per
cent 25s 6d; washed and sifted 15s to 225, and not re-
fracted 26a per cwt.
OILS.—For Olive Oil there has been an excellent de-
mand, and prices are on the advance. This afternoon
many purchases were made, Gallipoli at 421 to 431,
Spanish 41/ to 41110 s, Sicily 414 and Barbary 391 to 401
per tun. Palm has met with more attention ; fine qua-
lity has been selling at 25s to 26s per cwt. Cocoa Nut
is not offered upon lower terms, but the demand has been
limited, and of 200 hhds of Ceylon at public sale a very
small part only sold at 28s per cwt for good quality.
Rape Oil, Pale selling at 36s to 36s 6d, and brown 35s
to 35s 6d per cwt. Linseed Oil on the spot at 23s 6d to
23s 9d, and for forward delivery at 24s to 24s 6d per
cwt. Cod Oil at 301 to 301 5s per tun. Southern
is little wanted, and prices are going down, of 120
tuna at auction a part only sold at 291 to 311 for British,
and at 311 to 33/ per tun for foreign fishing. Seal, pale
331 to 331 5s accepted, yellow 301 to 311, straw 31/ lOs to
321 10s, and brown 281 to 291. Sperm, auction 20 tuns
of British selling at 8515 s to 861 per tun. This afternoon
at public sale 75 hhds Ceylon Cocoa Nut Oil sold at
27/ 10s to 281, and 20 brls African Ground Nut Oil at
34/ lOs to 35/10s per tun.
TALLOW.—lfolders of Russian have been desirous to
realise on the spot, and submitted to a reduction on pre-
vious rates of 3d to 6d per cwt. The market having
been abundantly supplied with other descriptions
of Tallow a decline in the value has occurred; at auc-
tion 244 casks of New South Wales fetched 37s 6d
to 41s 6d for mid to tine quality, 50 casks of P Y Can-
dle 38s 3d to 39s 3d ; 171 casks olf fit. Peteraburgh Soap
Tallow 38s, 30 casks of Archangel 38s 3d, 570 packages
South American 33s to 38s 9d for common to fine, 40
casks of East India 40s 6d to 40s 9d ; lOO casks of
Odessa Sheep Tallow 39s 6d, and 15 casks of Beef ditto
375. Town Tallow is selling at 40s 6d to 41a per cwt
nett cash.

DEATH of GEN. SIR HENRY GREY

This Gallant Officer, who has been in the military
service of the country since November, 1779, when he
obtained his first commission, an Ensigncy in the 26th
Foot, died at his house in Hertford-street, May-fair, on
Saturday, having nearly reached his 80th year, 65 of
which he had held the royal commission. He had held
the Colonelcy of the 13th Light Dragoons since 1811, and
the date of his commission as a General was May, 1825.
He was the ninth General in seniority in the service.
He was removed from the Line to a Cornetcy in the
19th Dragoons, and served as Aide-de-camp to his
father, the late General Earl Grey, at Plymouth, until
1783 ; he was also for some time, while in the 17th
Dragoons, Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Rutland, during
his Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland.
He served at the following places :—At the siege of
Nieuport ; as Deputy-Quarter-Master-General in the
West Indies ; at the reduction of Martinique in 1794,
and on the staff at home as Assistant-Quarter-Master-
General until September, 1795, when he again went
out to the West Indies, in command of his regi-
ment (the 18th Dragoons), with the expedition
under Sir Ralph Abercromby, and served at St.
Domingo, until April, 1787, when he came home with
the 17th Dragoons as its Lieut.-Colonel. He was
nominated Aide-de-camp to George 111. in 1798, and in
1805 Major-General. From this date he served on the
staff in England until July, 1806, when he was appointed
Commander of the Forces at the Cape. He returned
home in 1811, and from that time to 1814 commanded a
district. In December, 1811, he got the Colonelcy of
the 13th Light Dragoons, which is of course at present
at the disposal of the Horse Guards.
General Grey was also a member of the Consolidated
Board of General Officers.