Adjutant-General; the 17th of January, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 63d foot; the 6th of August, 1800, Colonel of the 5th West India regiment; the 25th of September, 1803, MajorGeneral; the 8th of February, 1806, Colonel of his present regiment, the 14th foot; and the 25th of July, 1810, Lieutenant-General.

This officer is a member of the Consolidated Board of General Officers; one of the Commissioners of the Royal Military College, and of the Royal Military Asylum.

For his long and valuable services, 20 years of which have been in the important post of Adjutant-General of the British army, and in which high official situation he has been constantly distinguished for urbanity of manner, and attention to the claims of officers of real merit, he has been rewarded with the order of a Grand Cross of the Bath; and in October, 1818, was created a Baronet of Great Britain.

126. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GEORGE COCKBURN.

THIS officer was appointed Ensign in the 1st foot guards in May, 1781; Captain-Lieutenant in the 105th foot in May 1784; Captain-Lieutenant in the 65th foot in April, 1785; Captain in the 15th foot in February, 1787; Captain in the 5th or Royal Irish dragoons in March, 1790; which commission was ante-dated to November, 1789; Major of the Royal Irish Independent Invalids, in November, 1790; Major of the 92d foot in November, 1793; Lieutenant-Colonel in the 92d foot the 31st of December following; Colonel, by brevet, the 26th of January, 1797; Major-General the 25th of September, 1803; and Lieutenant-General the 25th of July, 1810. This officer was Aid-de-Camp to Lord Heathfield at the siege of Gibraltar in 1782 after the peace of 1783, and till 1793, he was in Prussia, Germany, and France, (at such periods as he could obtain leave of absence from regimental duty,) attending the chief military exercises at Potsdam, Magdeburg, Silesia, and in the Austrian States. In January, 1806, he was placed on the Staff in England as Major-General, on which he remained till the spring of 1810, when he was removed to the Mediterranean Staff, and sent to Sicily; and on the notification of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-General in November, 1810,

his Staff situation ceased; but he did not return to England till September, 1811, since which time he has not been employed.

127. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL EDWARD DUNNE.

THIS officer was appointed Ensign in the 26th regiment the 9th of September, 1780; he proceeded to join in America, but before he reached Carolina the British army was taken at YorkTown; the 24th of December, 1783, he was reduced on halfpay; and the 21st of April, 1784, he exchanged to full-pay of the 56th; the 24th of May following he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 74th; and the 24th of June, again reduced on half-pay, from which he exchanged to the full-pay of the 14th light dragoons the 28th of December. The 6th of July, 1785, he obtained a company in the 44th; the 30th of September, 1791, a Majority in the 7th dragoon guards; and the 31st of December, 1793, a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the latter regiment. The 26th of January, 1797, he received the brevet of Colonel; and in March, 1798, was appointed Brigadier-General on the Staff in Ireland, and served during the rebellion of that year; he was removed to the command of the light column of the Northern district in Ireland, and remained there till July, 1799, when he embarked for Holland. The 24th of October, 1799, he was appointed Colonel of the Pembroke Fencible Cavalry, and reduced on half-pay the 31st of August following. The 25th of September, 1803, he received the rank of Major-General, with which he served on the Irish Staff for some years; and the 25th of July, 1810, was appointed Lieutenant-General.

128. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JAMES. DRUMMOND. THE 10th of October, 1776, this Officer was appointed Ensign in the 40th foot; he served in America in the campaign of 1777, in the Jerseys, and was in the different actions; he was at the battles of Brandywine, the surprising of Wayne's brigade, the battles of Germantown and Monmouth, and the retreat from Philadelphia. The 10th of August, 1778, he was appointed Lieutenant in the 43rd, and whilst holding that rank was at the taking of Washington's dragoons, &c.; at the siege of Charlestown; and was constantly with the army till

the peace of 1788. The 17th of January, 1787, he was appointed to a company; the 19th of September, 1793, he embarked for the West Indies; the 2nd of December he obtained a Majority; and the 31st of December in the same year a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in his regiment. He commanded the 43d, at the sieges of Martinique, St. Lucie, and Guadaloupe, and was made prisoner on the French retaking the latter place in 1794. In 1795, he made his escape and returned to England. The 26th of January, 1797, he received the brevet of Colonel, and returned to the West Indies; the 29th of May he was appointed Brigadier-General, and sent to command at the Island of St. Lucie, where he remained till August, 1798, and then returned home. In December he was placed on the Irish Staff, where he remained till 1802. In May, 1803, he was appointed a Brigadier-General in Guernsey; the 25th of September, 1803, Major-General, and removed to the Portsmouth district; the 16th of March, 1804, to the Staff, at Malta, and on his arrival at the latter place to the Staff at Gibraltar, where he continued for a considerable period. The 14th of June, 1807, he was appointed Colonel of the late 7th Garrison Battalion, and the 25th of July 1810, LieutenantGeneral.

129. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WILLIAM DOWDESWELL.

THE 6th of May, 1780, this officer was appointed Ensign in the 1st foot guards; in 1782, Aid-de-Camp to the late Duke of Portland, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; 4th of May, 1785, he received a Lieutenancy with the rank of Captain, in his regiment; and in 1793, he joined the army under the Duke of York at Tournay. In the action at Lincelles, Captain Dowdeswell commanded a company, and was present at the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk. The 8th of February, 1794, he succeeded to a company with the rank of LieutenantColonel; and in November, 1797, was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands, from whence he returned to England, in July, 1801. The 25th of June, 1797, he received the brevet of Colonel, and the 18th of January, 1798, a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the 60th foot; and the 24th of February, 1803, was removed to the 86th. In 1802, Colonel Dowdeswell, was appointed Private Secretary to

Lieutenant-General Lord William Bentinck, then Governor of Madras; 25th of September, 1803, Major-General; and 1st of October, 1804, to the Staff of the Bengal army, which he joined the 31st of December, 1804, and was immediately given the command of a wing thereof. In the latter situation he continued during the active operations then carrying on against the Mahratta chiefs beyond the frontiers of the British territories, and including the siege of the fortress of Bhurtpore. In October, 1805, he was detached by Lord Lake in command of a separate division of the army, consisting of eight thousand men, to co-operate with his Lordship in preventing the incursions of the enemy, and protecting that portion of the East India Company's territory called the Doab, and remained in the field till hostilities ceased. On the return of the army into cantonments the Major-General was appointed to the command of the station at Cawnpore and its dependencies. On Lord Lake's departure for England in February, 1807, this officer succeeded, by the appointment of the supreme government of Bengal, to the chief command of the troops, in which he continued till compelled, by ill health, to return to England, where he arrived in November, 1808. He received the thanks. of the government in India for his conduct. The 2nd of June, 1808, he obtained a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the 60th foot; and 25th of July, 1810, was appointed LieutenantGeneral.

130. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ALEXANDER MACKENZIE.

APPOINTED Ensign in the 1st foot in June, 1787; Lieutenant in 1790; Captain in the 42nd in 1792; and Major in the 78th in 1793. He served with Lord Moira's army in the expedition of that year to the relief of Ostend. In 1794 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the 78th, from which he exchanged to the 36th the 22nd of May, 1797. In 1795 he accompanied Sir James Craig as second in command to the Cape of Good Hope. He received the brevet of Colonel the 26th of January, 1797, and was appointed Brigadier-General under Lord Cornwallis in Ireland in 1800, and in the same year Brigadier-General under Sir Ralph Abercromby in the MediterraR. M. Cal.

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nean; he remained with that rank at Minorca in consequence of the brigade he commanded being composed of regiments whose services were limited to Europe. The 25th of September, 1803, he was appointed Major-General, and placed on the Staff of Great Britain; he was from thence removed to the Staff of Ireland, and subsequently to the Mediterranean.

In 1808 he was appointed to the army forming the expedition to Portugal under Sir Arthur Wellesley; but as the troops then at Gibraltar, forming a separate army under Lieutenant-General Spencer, were ordered to join Sir Arthur, from the circumstance of his being senior to Lieutenant-General Spencer, he did not join the army; and as his rank precluded him from serving with it, he went in that year to the army in Sicily, where he commanded a division in the expedition against Naples, and afterwards the troops in the two Calabrias. On being appointed a Lieutenant-General, the 25th of July, 1810, he was named to the Staff of the army in Ireland, and on the departure of the Earl of Harrington, he commanded that army until the arrival of Sir John Hope, now Earl of Hopetoun. He served in Ireland until the peace in 1814, when he immediately resigned his Staff appointment.

This officer is a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Januarius; and also a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.

181. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GEORGE MONCRIEFFE.

APPOINTED Ensign in the 10th foot in May, 1775; Lieutenant in 1776; and Captain in the 81st in 1777. This officer served as a subaltern three years in America; he was at the taking of Fort Washington, landing on Rhode Island, and battle of Brandywine. In 1793 he received the brevet of Major; and in February, 1794, was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the 90th. He served at Gibraltar three years; in 1798 he served at Toulon, and in 1794 again went to Gibraltar. He was present at the taking of Minorca, and from thence was ordered to Malta, and appointed to a corps of Maltese raised by Major-General Graham; he remained there till the surrender, and some time after returned to Minorca, where he continued until it was ceded