ment, this officer was appointed an equerry to His Royal Highness, which situation he continues to hold.

237. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WILLIAM SPENCER.

THIS officer was appointed Lieutenant in the 1st dragoons the 4th of May, 1776; Captain-Lieutenant and Captain the 1st of September, 1784; Lieutenant-Colonel in the army the 20th of May, 1795; Lieutenant-Colonel in the late 23rd light dragoons the 19th of September, 1795; Colonel in the army the 29th of April, 1802; Major-General the 25th of October, 1809; and Lieutenant-General the 4th of June, 1814.

238. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SAMUEL GRAHAM. APPOINTED Ensign the 31st foot in 1777; Lieutenant the 25th of December, 1777, in the 76th; and Captain-Lieutenant the 9th of April, 1779. In August following this officer landed with his regiment at New York, and in the spring of 1781, embarked for Virginia, with the army under Major-General Phillips; the 19th of October, 1781, was taken prisoner with the army under Lord Cornwallis at York Town; and in February, 1784, returned to this country. In April he succeeded to a company, and was placed on half-pay; and in April, 1786, obtained a company in the 19th foot, which corps he joined at Jamaica in 1787, and in 1789 returned to England. In the autumn of 1793 he landed at Ostend, and joined the army of the Duke of York at Menin, but being ordered to join that of Sir Charles Grey, he returned to Ostend; he was subsequently thrown with his light infantry company into Nieuport, then besieged by the enemy, and on the siege being raised, he embarked and landed at Southampton, when the regiment was put under the orders of Lord Moira, and Captain Graham appointed Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Crosby. In June, 1794, he rejoined the army under the Duke of York, in the neighbourhood of Ghent; and in October following was promoted to the rank of Major. He next served with his regiment under Sir David Dundas, on the Waal; and in the spring of 1795 came to England. The 20th of May, 1795, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2d West India regiment;

and in June following sailed for the West Indies. Being chosen to command a corps of light troops to penetrate through some settlements of Charibs and Brigands, he received in that service a desperate wound through the lungs, by a musket ball, and soon after a second in the hand, by another musket ball. He was sent home to England; and the 18th of January, 1797, was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel 27th foot. He served in the expedition to the Helder in 1799; and whilst charging the enemy, was wounded in the left temple by a rifle ball, which deprived him of his left eye. In August, 1800, he embarked at Portsmouth, and joined the army under Sir James Pulteney, and afterwards that under Sir Ralph Abercromby; in April, 1801, he landed in Egypt, and was employed on the 22d of August to lead the advance of one of the columns under General Sir Eyre Coote, to the westward of Alexandria. The 29th of April, 1802, he obtained the brevet of Colonel; and in August, 1804, was appointed Brigadier-General on the North British Staff, where he remained till June, 1806. In June, 1808, he was placed on the Staff of Ireland; the 25th of October, 1809, he received the rank of Major-General; and was subsequently appointed on the staff in North Britian. The 4th of June, 1814, he obtained the rank of Lieutenant-General. This officer is Deputy-Governor of Stirling Castle.

239. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JAMES MONTGOMERIE,

M.P.

THIS officer was appointed Ensign in the 51st foot the 13th of September, 1773. He joined at Minorca the beginning of 1774; and in 1775 exchanged into the 13th foot, and was appointed Adjutant by the late General James Murray; in 1776 he returned with his regiment to England; and in 1779 succeeded to a Lieutenancy. In February, 1780, he was appointed to a Company in the 93rd, and sailed with an expedition to the West Indies. Soon after arriving at Jamaica, the 93rdwas drafted and sent home; Captain Montgomerie remained in that Island on the Staff, as Major of Brigade to General Garth, and at the end of 1781 returned to Europe. On the reduction of the corps at the peace of 1783, this officer purchased into

the 10th foot, and joined in Jamaica in 1786; in 1790 he was sent to England on the recruiting service, and in February, 1793, he rejoined his regiment, and continued with it till 1794. On arriving in this country, he was appointed Major of Brigade to Major-General Bruce; in March, 1794, he received the brevet rank of Major; and in May, 1795, was appointed LieutenantColonel of the 6th West-India Regiment; he sailed with the officers to Martinique in order to raise that corps, but not succeeding, he volunteered his services in the expedition under Sir Ralph Abercromby in 1796, and was appointed by that General to command the troops at St. Kitts, where he remained till exchanged in 1798, into the 45th, which regiment he joined at Dominica, but was shortly after obliged to return to England from ill health. He was appointed Colonel by brevet the 29th of April, 1802; and in 1804 Lieutenant-Colonel in the 64th foot. In February of the latter year he was appointed BrigadierGeneral in the West Indies. He sailed in March with Sir William Myers, Commander of the Forces, and was selected by him to hold the civil and military command at Tobago. In 1805 he was removed to the colonies of Demerara and Berbice, where he remained till November, 1808, during the greater part of which time he acted as Governor of those colonies. He was then removed by General Beckwith to Dominica; and in 1809 returned to England. The 25th of October, 1809, he received the rank of Major-General; the 26th of April, 1813, the Colonelcy of his present regiment the 74th; and the 4th of June, 1814, was appointed Lieutenant-General. ›

240. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WETHERALL.

IN August, 1775, this officer obtained an Ensigncy in the 17th foot. He embarked at Cork with the corps in September, 1775, for Boston, North America, where he remained during the siege, and accompanied his regiment at the evacuation to Halifax, in March, 1776, and in June following proceeded with the army under the command of Sir William Howe, to Staten Island, preparatory to the attack of New York. In August, 1776, he received a Lieutenancy, in which rank he served five

years, and was constantly employed in North America and Europe. He was present at the battles of Brooklyn, Whiteplains, Fort Washington, Prince Town, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, exclusive of several affairs of posts in North America. He was embarked, and did duty as a Captain of Marines on board His Majesty's ship Alfred, and was in the battles of Capes Finisterre and St. Vincent's, under Sir George Rodney, previous to the relief of Gibraltar. The 17th of May, 1781, he raised an Independent Company, which was embodied in the 104th regiment, and was employed on the Island of Guernsey; and the 16th of April, 1783, exchanged into the 11th regiment, and proceeded to Gibraltar, where he did duty six years. He attended the Duke of Kent to Quebec in 1790, and accompanied His Royal Highness as Aid-de-Camp to the West Indies in 1794; he was at the taking of Martinique, where he received two wounds. The 1st of March, 1794, he was appointed Major in the 11th foot, and employed as Deputy-AdjutantGeneral to the forces in Nova Scotia, under the command of the Duke of Kent, to which situation he was appointed the 23rd of August, 1794. The 20th of May, 1795, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in Keppel's regiment, and employed at St. Domingo under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Adam Williamson and Major-General Forbes; he was entrusted by the latter officer with dispatches for Sir Ralph Abercromby at Barbadoes, and on the passage taken by a French frigate, and wounded in action; he remained at Guadaloupe a prisoner of war upwards of nine months, closely confined in a dungeon, in irons, without any other clothing than a shirt, and a pair of trowsers, or any description of bedding; and on a daily allowance of three buiscuits, and a quart of water. The following circumstance is illustrative of the character of the soldiers of the British army.

A Detachment consisting principally of the 32nd regiment, with which corps this officer served at Gibraltar, were taken prisoners on their passage from that garrison to Barbadoes, and brought into Gaudaloupe at the time he was a prisoner there. On hearing of the severe and inhuman treatment he experienced by order of the Revolutionary Governor of the Island, Victor

Hughes, they made a collection amongst themselves of elevenguineas, and forwarded it to him through the medium of a negro employed in the delivery of provisions to the English prisoners, concealed in a small loaf of bread with a note from a Serjeant of the 32nd regiment, requesting, in the name of the men of that corps and other unfortunate companions in captivity, his acceptance of the money as a small token of their esteem, and in the hope of its affording some relief and comfort under the sufferings and cruel treatment they understood he experienced. It is not necessary to add one word to give weight to this noble The circumstance was mentioned to the Commander-in Chief, by the Lieutenant-General, and His Royal Highness spontaneously conferred an Ensigncy on the Serjeant.

act.

When exchanged he was appointed Adjutant-General to the forces under the commaud of the Duke of Kent in North America. The 3d of August, 1796, he was removed to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 82d, and the 29th of April, 1802, received the brevet of Colonel. He afterwards raised, and was appointed Colonel, the 9th of July, 1803, of the late NovaScotia Fencible regiment in North America, and AdjutantGeneral and Brigadier to the forces on the Charibee Island station, in May 1806. He was removed to the Cape of Good Hope, the 25th of October following, when he served as Brigadier to the forces in that Colony.

This officer obtained the rank of Major-General the 25th of October, 1809, and was then appointed to the Staff of India. On his passage there, from the Cape of Good Hope, he was taken prisoner in the Honorable Company's ship Wyndham, after a severe action by a French squadron in the Mosambique channel, and carried to the Isle of France, when after being confined two months, he was exchanged, and sailed for Calcutta. On his arrival there in November, 1810, he was appointed by the Governor-General in Council, to serve as second in command uuder Sir Samuel Auchmuty, on the expedition against the island of Java, which terminated in the conquest of that valuable possession. For his services on that occasion, he had the honor of receiving a medal, and the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. After the reduction of Java, he returned to