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ad sixteen children, twelve of whom survived their moth(
,ord Hill entered the army in the sixteenth year of his ag

nis nrst commission was an ensigncy in the 38th R
and having obtained leave of absence, with the view of im-
proving his military knowledge, he was placed at an academy
at Strasburg, where he remained one year, and then ac-
companied his elder brother and his uncle, the late Sir
Richard Hill, in a tour through Germany, France, and
Holland.
Lord Hill commenced his military duty at Edinburgh,
where he had the advantage of the best society, and received
from many of the nobility and first families particular notice.
His removal from Scotland took place in consequence of an
offer he received of a Lieutenancy, in Captain Broug4ton's
(afterwards Lieutenant-General Sir John Broughton) inde-
pendent company, on his raising the usual quota of men ;
this he soon accomplished, and then removed as Lieutenant
to the 27th. His friends being anxious for his eurly promo-
tion, obtained permission for him to raise an independent
company, which gave him the rank of Captain in the army,
in the year 1792. In the interval of his being attached to
any particular corps, he accompanied his friend, Mr. Francis
Drake, who went out as Minister on a diplomatic mission to
Germany, whence Captain Hill. through the recommendation
of his friend, proceeded to Toulon, and was employed as
Aide-de-Camp to the then successful General commanding
there—namely, Lord Mulgrave, General O'Hara, and Sir
David Dundas. Capt. Hill had not at that time attained
his 21st year, but had the honour of receiving from each
of his commanders decisive proofs of their approbation.
His next appointment was to a company in the 53d, with
which regiment he was on duty in Scotland and Ireland.
His conduct at Toulon recommended him to the notice and
friendship of Lord Lynedoch, who made him the offer of
purchasing a majority in the 90th : this step was gladly ac-
ceded to by himself and friends, and was soon followed by
promotion to a lieutenant-colonelcy in the same regiment.
He went through arduous duty with the 90th at Gibraltar
and other places, and had his full share in the memorable
Egyptian campaign. In the action of the 13th of March
1811, Major-General Craddock's Brigade formed
with the 90th Regiment, commanded by Lord

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Ail Lois affair to lA.
Jos t honourable; and that nothing could exceed the intre
pidity and firmness with which they charged thP 0
this occasion Colonel Hill received
temple, from a musket
tially averted, by a -
helmet : the

e enemy

wound on the right

force of which was prov
binding, in the front of h

LIG WE
moved from the field of battle in a state of insensibility. IS re-
During the whole of Sir John Moore's advance and re-
treat4General Hill continued indefatigable in his exertions.
On Gewwal Hill's arrival in England, in the beginning of
the year 1809, he found himself appointed Colonel of the
third Garris3n Battalion, and about the same period he be-
came posnssed of Hardwick-grange, an estate left to him by
his untie, the late Sir Richard Hlll, Bart.
At the battle of Tallavera General Hill was slightly wounded
on the head. After which, the activity which enabled him to
surprise a considerable corps of the enemy under General
Girard, at Arroyo de Molino, is indicative of his high at
tainments as a military man. On this latter enterprise '
otn ' the

a, 4reu a-rince d'Aremberg, who was sent prisoner to
Oswestry, and afterwards to Bridgenorth, both in this
county.
On the dissolution of
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Parliament, in 1812, the Hon. Wm

signaled his intention of resigning
his representation of the borough of Shrewsbury, and the
family of General Hill were solicited to offer him as a candi-
date, and his election for that borough was 1
In 1813 and 1814, the inhabitants of Shre

obtained

hire ere,

magnificent column as a testimon
In May, 1814, General Hill wr
and of Hawkstone, and an annuity o
voted by Parliament to his 10mb:1,1111

y of esteem to his lordship.
s created Baron of Almarez
2,000 per annum was

remainder to his nephew.
Peace having been signed at Paris, in May, 1814, his lord-
ship returned to the bosom of his venerable father and his
friends at Hawkstone, in the followinr. month. On his road

thither he was received with the utmost enthusiasm in every
town through which he passed. His return to his native
county was 'anticipated by the inhabitants with the liveliest
A day was set apatt fora public dinner and rejoicing
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with all the honours and enthusiasm of a triumphal entrance ;
the town poured forth its population to gratulate him ; a
cavalcade, comprising the principal personages in the county,
escorted his lordship into the town, and he afterwards dined
at the Town-hall. A short time after, the freedom of the
borough was presented to his lordship in a gold box, and th
reedom of the Drapers' Company
"His lordship now

o pass the remainder of his days
.
upon his estate and among his friends; but he was imme-
diately appointed to take command of an expedition against
the Americans. Happily, however, the in
that power terminated with the signature of

;ociations with

the return or lionaparte from Elba, on the 4th of March,
1815, and his reascendancy in France, Lord Hill was offered
a command in the Netherlands, and was present at the ever
lemorable battle of Waterloo. His lordship, on that oc
on, bad a horse shot under him ; and his two brothers

ounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir R. Hill was ahot through

the upuer part of the
chest, but not deeply
wound was in hiS•thig

right arm, and the ball entered leis
Lieutenant-Colonel Clement Hill's
11; a sabre passed quite through the

Perhaps the occasion on which his lordship most distin-
guished himself was the desperate fight of Almarez, in 1812,
from which he took his second title. Wellington directed
Sir Rowland Hill to destroy the bridge of Almarez, defended
on both sides of the river by very formidable works and a

work, watcl

soldiers were crowded on the parapet of thei
the progress of an attack upon Miravete

which, however, was merely a feint, intended to have been
simultaneoua with the escalade. They had no suspicion of
an attack till the rush of the assailants, the sight of their
ladders, and the opening of their firing parties, thinned them,
already on the alert, into swift resistance. With a good
order, exceeded only by their valour, the 50th Regiment,
and one wing of the 71st, soon mounted the parapet, and the
defenders gave way. Their contest for the interior defences
was but short ; they abandoned the intrenchment and tower,
and fled to the tete de pont. Here was a scene of great con-
fusion ; for the pursuers entered the work with them. They
rushed upon the bridge; but three oflhe boats were already
cut away by the fugitives who first crossed. Many fell or
leaped into the river, and were drowned; and about 250 wer
made prisoner

The river was soon passed; the towers and magazines in
the fortes, and in the tete de pont, were blown up; the guns
thrown into the Tagus; the palisades,:barriers, stores of tim-
ber and of tools, the pontoons and their carriages, were con-
sumed by fire, and the works utterly effaced and destroyed.
This important service was effected with the loss of only 15
officers and 162 privates, killed and wounded.
In reference to the battle of Waterloo, it is observed by
Captain Boyle Sherer, that there does not seem to hove been
that accurate information gathered of tne share borne by the
corps under Lord Hill in this memorable battle as in those
actions already recorded. It is true, that for some time the
corps of Lord Hill took no prominent part in the engage-
ment. The post of his Lordship during the severe combats
at Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and on the centru of the
position, was on the slope of the heights of Merke Brrine, to
the right of the Nivelle-road, covering the right wing of the
general line. From this position he anxiously observed every
movement of the enemy ; and, as Napoleon gradually con-
centrated his left in the_ impetuous attacks upon Housou-
mop*

..., his Lordship carefully opposed him until the whole of
his command was formed in squares on the heights which
overlooked that important position between the roads of
- and Gemappe. From this moment to the triumphant
of the battle, he directed their operations in person.
J great crisis of this conflict, when Napoleon made
A effort, and the Imperial Guard advanced to the at-
...lC, the services of Lord Hill, and especially of that brigade
of his Lordship's corps commanded by Lieutenant-General
Adam,.were conspicuous ; and by the judgement and ardour
with which he supported the British Guards, be largely con-
tributed to the final and glorious result.

In the year 1828, his Lordship was appointed the General
Commanding in Chief of the Army of England, a situation
at the Horse. Guards which he continued to fill under save-
, e• • . •

e Lord Hill, as a commander, never
suffered a defeat, yet no heedless sacrifice of life ever
purchased for him the field of victory. The laurels he
bravely won were solely attributable to his generalship and
extraordinary skill in directing the energies of his troops
under his command :—" With Hill," it was usually observed
by the soldiery, " both life and victory may be ours." The
Soldier's Friend was his acknowledzed title.
His lordship was in his 71st year, and is succeeded in his
title by his nephew and heir, Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., M.P.,
of Hawkstone, which will consequently cause a vacancy in
the representation-of the northern division of this county.
Viscount Clive will be the new member.

though we b

FICKLE WOMAN.—A woman named Eliza Taylor, 40
ars of age, was last week committed for trial at Hereford
sizes for bigamy. it appeared that a honeymoon and a week

action towards her husband. having
th of Septemder married one George Taylor, and
on Nov. Ist sworn to "love, honour, and obey" Ed. Jones.
Iler beauty, certainly, was not the cause
.of discord between
the two benedicks (of whom the former did not appear at the
examination) but there was a small property, of which she
had the management for two children by a former marrirge.

fOr her

MURDER AT YARMOUTH.—A few days ago two ferrymen,
named Cook and Mann, having to settle about some fish
which they brought to market, and Mann not giving full sa-
tisfaction to the other, a quarrel ensued, and Cook knocked
Mann down, saying, " Now, you , I will do for you."
and gave him a kick in the abdomen. The poor fellow never
spoke afterwards, and expired in about an hour. Cook was
apprehended the same night, and was tali-6n before Mr.
Samuel Palmer, the mayor, and a bench of mngistrates, on
Monday, when, after a lengthened investigation, be was
committed to Norwich Castle to take his trial at the next
assizes.

We are indebted to a correspondent for some interesting
extracts from the private letters of one of the American cot-
ton planters in Bengal. Our readers will learn with regret
that hitherto the experiments in that presidency have been
failures. This, however, is entirely to be ascribed to the
unfavourable nature of the climate in Bundelkund—the wi-
thering hot wind which prevails there having blasted the
hopes of the planters. The intelligent writer, however, does
not despair of being able to find suitable beations where
these disadvantages do not prevail. The indigenous cotton
appears to thrive better than the American—and there is a
marked superiority of the American over the native mode of
cultivation. The planter says :
be tront I " Had those who

ttled us here explored all India for the
t, this would have been the spot they
n. This is proved from the fact that

in the, part of the Dooah and Btindelkund, where we are

located there are no indigo factories or sugar mills ; in a
word, thare is nothing produced here but a little miserable
grain, which affords the people a precarious subsistence, and
a little poor cotton which affords them scarcely clothing, and
which is too uncertain to risk being planted by itself, but is
sown with a dozen different kinds of pulse. Notwithstanding
the unfortunate result which has attended our efforts here,
we do not despair of success in a more genial clime; and I
doubt not that India possesses territory equal in extent to
the whole cotton growing region of the United States which
will produce the article ; and, with the assistance of govern-
ment, which I am sure the present rulers will lend, we will
find them out ;. and judging from the description► Hamilton's
Gazetteer gives, I would venture to point out the following
countries in which I think the American cotton very likely
to, succeed, viz., Bengal about Dacca, Moorshedabad, Bhan-
gulpore, Jumu!poor, Dinagepoor, Rungpoor, and even to
Ghornekpoor, Oude, Rohilcund, &c. In the selection of
these districts I have_ kept entirely out of, the range of the
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course of this part of the country hot winds. I may also
add Malwa, particularly about Saugor and Jubbulpoor.
From the latter district Captain M`Leod sent us some seed,
and on looking over them I found a lock of cotton, which I
think particularly good. I need not attempt to enumerate
the many sections of country on your side of India in which
I think good cotton can be produced, as you will have a great
acquisition to your practical knowledge in the planter who is
qf setting out for your presidency. The native

upon the ev

nourishes most luxuriantly under our Mode of culti-
vation ; the hot wind does not affect that so much as it does
a foreign plant. It is not very prolific under any circum-
stances, but from its present appearance it will produce a
great deal more than the natives realise from it, but unfor-
tunately we have planted largely of the American variety,
and but sparingly of the indigenous. The rain just came in
time to save the khureef, or wet weather crop ; so, upon the
whole, this will be a good season for the native grain crops.
The khureef will not be so good as it would have been with
a shower or two in August, but the people will not starve.
The Indian corn crop is entirely cut in this neighbourhood.
—Bombay Times, Nov. 2.

REVIVAL OF THE SERGE MANUFACTORY.—We are hap-
py to tind that the good news from India and China has had
the effect of re-animating the serge manufactories in Devon,
which had been drooping for some time past. The extensive
factories for this article at Ashburton and neighbourhood,
have been set upon full work ; and the inhabitants seem in-
spired with a new life, at the prospect of a revival of trade to
the East.

ARRIVAL OF TIIE TREATY
CIIINA.—The Locust steamer_

ND DESPATCHES F 11.03.1

Commander John
Lunn, arribed at Plymouth on Friday from Malta, which she
left on the 25th ult., bringing Major Malcolm, Secretary of
Legation, and Commander C. Richards, of her Majesty's
ship Cornwallis, the former charged with the Treaty of Peace

vv.,,Luueu with china, and the latter with despatches for the
Admiralty, with which they immediaeely on landing proceeded
express for London.

—Although Germany
iron, in the mountains
their product does not suffice to
...cent of consumption, and that of the railroads
in progress on so many points of her territory. The imports
of this metal continued, therefore, still on the increase in
Hamburg, and principally from England; from whence, in
1841, no less than 30,000 tons were despatched and received
in that port, and which, according to the basis of valuation
there, represented a value in sterling equal to about £320.000.
.—Barcelona, which was said to have submitted to
,„.nt, still holds out. The Junta wanted to surrender
certain conditions: these his Highness refused, insisting
that the surrender must be unconditional. The Junta re-
turned to the city, roused the citizens, and caused the toc-
sin to be rung, for the purpose of raising the whole district.
The Regent was preparing to bombard the city ; one account
says that the bombardment had actually commenced. An
English and a grench squadron had assembled in the roads
of Barcelona. The Christinos were suspected either to have
had a hand in getting up the insurrection, or of a design to
turn it to the advantage of the cause of the exiled Queen.
Major Malcolm, the bearer of the despatches from China,
with the treaty entered into by the Emperor, landed at
Devenport on Sunday. He left Nankin on the 16th, and
Hong-kong on the 26th of September, in the Auckland, and
arrived at Suez on the 9th ult. On his reaching Alexandria,
no English steamer being present, he proceeded by an
Egyptian steamer to Malta, where he arrived on the 20th,
but was detained, in consequence of there being no steamer
ready to put to sea, till the 26th, when the Cyclops having
arrived from Corfu, he proceeded in that vessel to England.
Some of the accounts brought by this channel state the sum
shipped by the Blonde frigate to be 5,000,000 dollars, instead
of 3,000,000 dollars, as first stated.

THE IRON TRADE IN GERMAIS
ssesses rich and numerous mines
rr

cover the e

THE AFFGHAN PRISONENS BOUGHT. —From India we
learn that all the surviving prisoners have been recovered,
without exception ; and at the same time we learn that the
apprehension lest they should be carried away beyond the
reach of our advancing army was by no means groundless ;
they were carried away, to be scattered in slavery among
distant and strange tribes. Some indignation was once ex-
pressed at the idea of purchasing back our brave fellow coun-
trymen ; they have been purchased, with a large bribe to their
keeper. It was, they say, a matter of life and death. Per-
haps some stern politicians will maintain that Florentine Sale
and Eldred Pottinger and their captive friends ought to have
gone into hopeless bondage, for the " national honour,"
rather than have been bought in?—Spectator.
TIE. PRESENT STATE OF Moscow.—The Russian jour-
nals give some details, relative to Moscow, which are not
without interest. Towards the end of the 17th century, ma-
nufactories of cloth, silk, cotton, glass, porcelain, and
crockeryware, were established in this city, but without any
decided effect until 1822, when, in consequence of the pro-
tective system adopted by the government, Moscow became
the centre of a vast number of manufactories, all in the most
flourishing state. At present there are, in and about the
city, not less than a thousand of these establishments, send-
ing forth goods to the amount of 40,000,000 silver rubles a
year. Upwards of 40,000 workmen are employed in those
manufactories, besides 30,000 in various trades. The pro-
sperity of the city has, in fact, increased to such a point,
that all traces of the terrible catastrophe of 1812, by fire, are
entirely effaced.

LORD ELLENuonoNq Ifs POLICY.—We quote with plea-
sure the following extract of a letter from an officer on the
personal staff of the GOvernor-General of India. The re-
marks at the commencement seem to us to throw more light
on Lord Ellenborough's policy, hitherto shrouded in such
mystery, than is likely to proceed from any other quarter
previous to the discussion of which it will be the subject iu
Parliament, and the fact mentioned in the sequel is both
novel and interesting :—" Simla, sth October, 1842. I dare
say there has been an outcry against Lord Ellenborough in
England, on the supposition that he was going to withdraw
the armies without visiting Cabool or Ghuznee. The fact is,
he did not choose to disclose his views and intentions to
every babbling newspaper editor in India, who would soon
have given information to the enemy. The result of his
secrecy has been mantfest. The Affghans, under the im-
pression that Nott would retire without taking Ghuznee, did
not think it worth while to garrison or improve the defences
of the pace; and did not find out that he was coming that
way till he was within 80 or 90 miles of it. What, indeed,
would better have shown Lord Ellenborough's judgment and
prudence, than the complete success with which his measures
have been crowned ? The country owes him a great deal.
A clever stroke of policy has been his order to Nott, to con-
vey away from Ghuznee the gates of the Temple of Sacu-
nauth, which originally belnnged to a Temple in Guzerat,
and which were carried away to Ghuznee from thence 800
years ago, by Mahomoud of Ghuznee. They are the chief
trophy of Mahometan conquest existing; and their being
restored to India, and to their proper Hindu temple, will
have the most gratifying effect in convincing all Asia of our
irresistible power. The Hindus are delighted and the Mus-
sulmans are quite dispirited. The story of the gates is so
well known in India, that all the natives are quite familiar
familiar with it, and long before we heard here of Ghuznee
being captured, we heard the bazaar report of the gates being
carried away from Ghuznee."—Glasgow Courier.

SWAN RIVER WHALE FISHERY.—A few days ago some
remarks were made upon the wealth the Americans were
deriving from the whale fishery at the Swan River; and in-
volving, as it appears to do, the enterprise of the British
merchant, who, from all that can be learned,, had not ex-
plored that part of the southern seas with anything like the
success attending our Transatlantic brethren, the subject
deserves increased attention. The Americans, it would seem,
are making the trade in oil, or at least the produce of these
fisheries, entirely their own ; for whereas, in two or three
instances which have come under our own special observa-
tion, it has been discovered that while a fleet of American
vessels have fished, as was stated the other day, in the most
successful manner in the bays of Western Australia

ser-
f a dozen of our whalers visit those
)rodent, who has forwarded some statistics