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London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

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The DECEMBER NUMBER contains AZINE.
REVELATIONS :
OF LONDON.
y HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.
Book the First.`Chapter 111. The Hand and the Cloak.—lV. The
Iron-merchant's daughter.—V. The Recognition.
With two Illustrations on steel, by " Phiz."
A Jar of Honey. (Conclusion.) By Leigh Hunt.
The Court and Court Circular; an Anecdote of "Old Townsend."
By the Author of " Mornings in Bow-street."
The Painter of Chihuahua. Part I. The Governor's Daughter.
By P. B. St. John.
Anticipations of 1860.—Pleasures Penal. By R. B. Peaks.
The Crescent and the Cross.
PROMETHEUS VINCTLS.
One of Mr. Webster's Rejected Comedies.
By VISCOUNT MAIDSTONE.
The Man with a Grievance. By Laman Blanchard.
Progress of Poetry. Hunt—Brown—Bennett.
A. Triad of Sonnets. By Edmund Oilier.
Abraham's Fatherland. By W. Francis Ainsworth.
The Country Curate. By Charles Oilier.
Bonny Kate. By George Raymond.
A Night in a Fog. By Mrs. White.
SAINT JAMES'S; OR, THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE.
By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.
(Concluded.)
London: John Mortimer, Publisher, Adelaide-street.

LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR JOHN
CAMERON, R.C.B.
This Peninsular officer died at his residence at Guern-
sey on Saturday last. The deceased, whose health had
been declining for some time past, was second son of
Culchenna, and nephew of Cameron of Caltort, Inver-
ness-shire, whose ancestor was a younger son of Lochiel,
chief of the clan. He was born in 1773, and married in
1803, Miss Brock, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Brock,
of Belmont, Guernsey, and niece of the first Lord de
Saumarez. Sir John entered the army as ensign in the
43d Regiment of Foot, in September, 1787. In 1794, he
served under Sir Charles Grey, in the West Indies, and
was present at the reduction of Martinique (including
the siege of Fort Bourbon and other minor engage-
ments), at St. Lucia and Guadaloupe, and particularly
displayed his gallantry at the defence of the latter in
the same year, and at the sortie from, and at the assault
made by, the enemy on the fortress of Fleur d'EF4e. He
was at the action of the 30th of September, at Berville
camp, under Brigadier-General Graham, and in the
action of the 7th October, he was severely wounded and
was taken by the enemy. He remained a prisoner of
war during a period of two years, and then came to
England ; but his military duties at home were of
short duration, for in six months he was was again or-
dered with his regiment to the West Indies, where he was
on foreign service for nearly four years. The General,
on his return to his native country, was ordered
with his regiment, the 9th Foot, to the seat of war in
Portugal, Sir John at that time holding the rank of
.1".;,-‘-”„ant-Colonel in that gro' His service
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distinctions. At the battle of • he commanded
the 2d battalion of the 9th Foot. 2.t, was at Corunna,
under the unfortunate Moore, and by the intrepid bra-
very he displayed at that sanguinary conflict, the de-
ceased gained the approbation of his superior in com-
mand. In July, 1809, he embarked on the 9th on the
expedition to the Scheldt, then commanding the Ist bat-
talion, and returned in September to England. In March
following he was sent out to increase 'the force of the
army in Portugal, then commanded by the Duke of
Wellington, and he continued in active service under
that great commander until the termination of the war
in 1814. He particularly distinguished himself at Bu-
saco, where he had a horse shot under him ; also at Sa-
lamanca and Vittoria. In July, 1813, previous to the
assault and capture of San Sebastian, he carried, with I
the 9th Foot, the fortified convent of San Bartholomew,
in front of San Sebastian thus gaining a position which
contributed greatly to the advantage of the allied army.
He subsequently took an active share in the battles of the
Nive of the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December, and in those
encounters he had another horse shot. During those
services he was twice wounded, and twice severely
contused. In acknowledgment for his eminent services
in the Peninsula, he received the decoration of a cross
and three clasps. Sir John, in 1814 and 1815, proceeded
to Canada, but was recalled from North America, owing
to the warlike aspect Europe had assumed, and the return
of Napoleon to France. He reached Ostend in August,
and immediately proceeded to join the allied army occu-
pying Paris. He was subsequently appointed Lieutenant-
Governor of Plymouth, and had the military command of
the western district, the duties of which he discharged
for a period of fourteen years. In consideration of his
eminent services, he was nominated a Knight Commander
of the Military Order of the Bath by his Sovereign, and
on the 31st of May, 1833, he was appointed to the Co-
lonelcy of the 9th Regiment. The Portuguese Govern-
ment conferred the Order of the Tower and Sword on
Sir John, for the able services he rendered to that nation
in the course of the French war in that country. His
commissions were dated as subjoined :—Ensign, 25th
September, 1787 ; Lieutenant, 39th September, 1790 ;
Captain, 11th July, 1794 ; Major, 9th October, 1800 ;
Lieutenant-Colonel, 28th May, 1807; Colonel, 4th June,
1814 ; Major-General, 19th July, 1821 ; and Lieutenant
General, 10th January, 1837. It will be seen from the
above, that Sir John had filled all the intermediate
grades to that of Lieutenant-General. The Colonelcy of
the 9th Regiment is, by his demise, vacant.

HABEAS CORPUS.-JERSEY.
(From the Jersey Gazette of Nov. 25.)
We have the pleasure of announcing that an offer from
he Royal Court to Mr. Wilson, made through Advocate
Hammond, to liberate him on his own bail, has been this
afternoon unhesitatingly spurned. By no trick or de.
vice can Mr. Wilson be induced to damage the cause of
which he is the representative.
TO THE BRITISH RESIDENTS IN JERSEY.
Gentlemen and Friends,—Let not the apparently un-
favourable news which arrived from London by this
day's mail occasion you any anxiety. It has had no
effect upon my spirits, nor upon my hopes, nor upon my
conviction, that at the end of perhaps a long vista, more
or less varied, we shall safely arrive at last at the Tem-
ple of Victory and of Peace. Before the week is closed
I hope to offer to you for your perusal the affidavit of
the Procureur do la Reine, on which his application to
the Bail Court was based. In the mean time let us not
prejudge its contents or its effects. " Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof."
Remember how our foes chuckled, day after day, be•
cause the habeas corpus did not arrive. Remember their
looks when it had arrived. Did I prophesy falsely that
it would come ? Judge me, then, for the future by the
past. I prophesy again. I shall be discharged from this
vile custody sooner than you expect. And I add to this
prophesy, that I shall be discharged by habeas corpus,
and by habeas corpus only—or in a coffin.
Fancy not that I hold my life so cheap that I would
commit suicide. Fancy not that I hold law to be so
despicable that I would accept my liberty upon any
terms but lawful terms ; or that I would, for a few
weeks of disgraceful freedom, enter into a recognisance
at the instance of the corrupt Royal Court in Jersey, or
at the command of any court in London.
It shall only be by a coffin, or by habeas corpus, that I
will be removed from this custody.
I have the henour to be, gentlemen and friends, your
faithful servant,

CHARLES CARUS WILSON,
A prisoner by lawless violence.
Jersey Gaol, Nor. 24, 1844.

REGISTRATION OF THE BIRTH OF 1118 ROYAL
HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED.--Her Majesty having
commanded that the registration of the birth of the in•
fent Prince Alfred should take place at Windsor Castle,
on Sunday, Mr. Towers, the district registrar for Wind-
sor, attended at the royal residence, in pursuance of her
Majesty's commands, for the purpose. There were also
present,ln the apartment adjoining the Queen's boudoir,
where the registration took place, the Right Honourable
Sir James Graham, Secretary of State ; Major Graham,
the Registrar-general ; and Mr. William Cole Long, the
superintendent registrar for the district. The Castle
and its precincts being extra-parochial, it was necessary
to register the birth of the infant Prince in the books of
the parish contiguous to where the birth took place ; but
in consequence of upwards of six weeks having elapsed
since that period, a fee of 7s. 6d. was incurred. The
Prince was registered in the names of Alfred Ernest
Albert. his Royal Highness Prince Albert was present,
and appeared 0 take great interest in the ceremony.