Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-07-25
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| il the British Houss Of Connons Mr.. Roe
buck had moved resolution attfibuting &
the inef5cieocy and want Of energy Of Lor,
/ Raglan much Of those in the Crimean disas
tiers which bare set 80 deep stain on Eng
lands military fame. The mail III yesterda,
| brings rs Intelligence Of Lis dcc,asc. Il
sc,fnfnl mockerJ Of human intrigues ant
ptats, the angel of death has stepped between
Though Lord Raglan had been suffering fo
some days from an sttack Of dysentery 81
severe az to lead to the report that be had re
signed his command. he had been gradual,
progressing to convalescence until the 2Stt
OF June, when alarming symptoms developed
themselves and after few hours struggl.
he expired.
Lord Raglan, or, as he was better known
for 50 many years, Lord Fitzroy Som srset
was the youngest son of the eth Duke oil
Beaufort, and uncle Of the present Duke
He was born in 1888, and was consequently
in his sixty-eigi.th year. The Somerscts are
OF tho proudest and most ancient blood oil
Britain. To travel back to the source Of
their origin would be as hopeless task as ia
penetrate to the fountain of the Me. eTwo
centuries ago." we were told, ssno rroudel
man was seen in England than the then Duke
of Somerset, who had the highways cleared
before him that he might not be looked on
by vulgar eyes, and who rebuked his second
wife for tapping his shoulder with fan, say
ing. MADAME, my first wife was percy,
and she never took such liberty"
Ia the good old times when Lord F. Som
erset made his debut in life, there were no
Administrative Reform Associations to Dor
impertinent inquiries or disturb the delights
Of privileged plumber. Many Colonies OF
the army in ose days were hardly out OF
swaddling clothes, and before they left the
cradel were high in command. Lord Fitzroy
Somerset was Cornet in 1904, Captain IN
1908, Mayor in Isl and Colonel in 1872,
accomplishing in eight years what cost Sir
De Lacy Evans, who saw still greater SCI vice,
forty years to achieve, and which Col. Enoch,
the Deputy Quartermaster General who fol
lowed the colors of the 23d from Walcheren
to Waterloo, has only recently acquired
If the young aristocracy of England were
with cruel injustice raised over the heads of
many brave veterans whose brows were
bronzed by many suns and SCARED by MANY
battles, it is but just to them to saw that
when called on they have not blanched at the
cannon's mouth, nor ever disgraced their
lineage Or their country; and among those
few whose ancestral bucklers have flashed ut
Agincourt and Greasy, and in whose veins
flowed blood which had been shed in earlier
fields OF glory. In this spir Lord Fitzroy
Somerset was present Mt every one of the
great Pcninsular battles. His rank, as ia
ever the case, at once recommended him to
the Duke Of Wellington, then Sir A Welles-
ley, who was but too happy to attach to his
interest the powerful family Of the Bsauforts
by naming him on his staff, and afterward
raising him to the post of Military Secreta-
~. In this capacity he served through the
whole war, exhibiting on every occ ,sion SOL
dier-like abilities combined with fearless
courage. He WAS twics severely wounded,
and lost his right arm at the farm of ella
Haye ssSa;nte," on the day Of Waterloo
When after that great engagement the cur
tain fell upon the wars of Europe, Lord
Fitzroy Somerset was appointed, in addition
to other honors, Secretary of the Embassy
at Paris. Thence he attended the Duke Of
Wellington to Vienna and Verona in 1922,
and in 1926 proceeded to St. Petersburg,
whittier he was sent to congratulate the late
Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the
throne. In 1919 he was appointed Secretary
to the Duke of Wellington. Master Genera
Of the Ordinance until 1927, and in 1897
was made Military Secretary to the Com
mander-n- Chief, the functions of which Of
fise he performed during the reign Of the
several COMMANDMENT Chief down to the
death of the Duke of Wellington. On the
death of the Duke, the commander-in-ch CHIEF
was, much to the disappointment of Lord
Fitzroy Somerset, conferred on Lord Hard
inge, and Lord Fitzroy being unwilling t.
serve under an officer of similar standing to
himself, was appointed Master General OF
the Ordinance, with Peerage, which he as,
sumed under the title of Lord Raglan, thu
name of castle which Edward Somerset
one Of his ancestors, held against Cromwell,
as the last of mobiles.
During the long reign of Lor ! Hill, and thu
subsequent one of the Duke of Wellington a
the Horse Guards, Lord F. Somerset, OWN:
to the age Of these veterans and the conf.
dence reposed in him, though acting as Mil
itary- Secretary, was virtually Commander
in-Chief, and in an Office where so much tao
and delicacy were required during that lon,
period, with strong class prejudice, to vii
and retain the respect and regard Of the ar
my. He never for one moment forgot sshi
order" or abandoned that faith in the divin,
right of aristocracy which he inherited b,
birth and education. But he concealed hi
prepossessions and bigotry with such grace
full art and such silvered verbage, as to max
tbs refused Commoners who left his leve
more blessed in the fascinating refusal tina,
in rude compliance with their request.
Without any mill airy genius Lord Raglan
possessed the sound judgment, fearless cour
age, and inAexible sense Of justice. Tn
Duke of Wellington entertained so high al
opinion of him as to give expression to
prediction rare in so cold and uneulogis
tic nature that che would yet be an homo
to his country" In such position as tina
in which the Duke Of. Wellington say
and Judged him he would have doubles
justified the prediction. Devoted to drill
dutiful to death and daring to destruction,
just and generous gentleman, of honor, cour
age and deep sense of duty, hepossessed ev
cry quality for a second in command, bu
was wholly untitled to govern an army. H
had not the prescience to foresee, the geniu
to direct, the strength of mind to control, o
the energy to repair, which should belong t.
a great general. Lord Raglan was just tina
character of man which the English system
in its best form begets. Trained in ever
step to refer to memory instead of exercis
ing mind, as long as things 60 on by the pre-
scribcd regulation all is well. But when al
unruly monster like Sebastopol stands acros
the path and will not be trodden down t
order, the country cries and the press thun
ders for head, preferring even the rud
Pelissier before Lord Raglan.
Lord Raglan was above the middle high
and of ordinary, one might almost say vul
gar, presence which was redeemed, strang
to say, by certain romantic air which hi
loose armless sleeve gave HIM, a.manner mos
gently and courtly and disposition sing,
larly kind.
/ He is succeeded in command by &c,
Simpson, an officer who has seen some Sc
vice in the Peninsula and great deal in Ii
dia, having served as second in command ,
the late Sir Charles Napier, to whose hig
opinion h" is indebted for the position I
which he has been raised.
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