removed to the privateer, and he was also selected to go on board as a hostage; but was exchanged for Captain Lord Frederick Fitzroy, of the 62nd regiment, (a son of the late Duke of Grafton.) Some days afterwards, the privateer, with his Lordship and the English crew, &c. &c. went to the bottom in a violent gale of wind, off the coast of America. The ship Lieutenant-Colonel Hay was left in, (manned with French seamen) escaped, and got safe to the river Delaware, though nearly a complete wreck. On arriving at Philadelphia he obtained the necessary passports from the French Chargé d'Affaires, and soon afterwards sailed for Great Britain.

Almost immediately on his arrival in England, he was appointed (May, 1797,) to the command of the 1st dragoon guards, as Lieutenant-Colonel, and in June, 1798, he was removed to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 2nd dragoon guards, the regiment in which he originally served. In the year 1799, Lieutenant-Colonel Hay was appointed Commandant of the cavalry depôt. The 25th of September, 1808, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the army. In July, 1804, he was put on the Staff as Brigadier-General, and served as such in the Southern district till June, 1806. In February, 1807, he was again placed on the Staff, in the same district, where he continued to serve until his promotion to Major-General, the 25th of July, 1810. In August of the same year he was removed to the Staff of Ireland, and in June, 1811, brought back to the English Staff, and placed in the Kent district. In September, 1812, he was appointed Adjutant-General to the army in Ireland, in which situation he remained till his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-General, the 4th of June, 1814, (which necessarily removed him.) In July of the latter year he was placed on the Staff of Ireland, and nominated to the Western district, by the Commander of the Forces, where he remained for some time.

262. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WILLIAM COCKELL.

THE 12th of July, 1782, this officer was appointed Ensign in the 31st, and the same year removed to the 2nd foot, with which regiment he served six years in Gibraltar. In 1792, he

was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 2nd; the 31st of March, 1793, to a company in the 95th; the 18th of April, 1794, to a Majority in the 105th; and the 16th of September, 1795, to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the latter regiment. On the reduction of the 105th, this officer was placed on half-pay, and shortly after appointed Assistant-Adjutant-General in Ireland. In 1800 he received the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 46th foot, and in October, 1802, was removed to the 5th foot. In August, 1802, he was appointed Inspector of a Recruiting district in Ireland: the 24th of August, 1804, Brigadier-General on the Staff at Guernsey, where he served till the 24th of June, 1806. The 25th of September, 1803, he received the brevet of Colonel; and the 25th of October, 1806, was appointed Brigadier-General at the Cape of Good Hope. He sailed from the Cape of Good Hope, on the 26th of October, 1810, with a brigade under his orders, consisting of a detachment of the Royal artillery, the 72nd and 87th regiments, to co-operate with a force sent from India, under the command of Lieutenant-General Abercromby for the reduction of the Mauritius. After the capture of the Island he returned to the Cape of Good Hope, leaving the troops he had taken with him, to garrison the Mauritius. He continued at the Cape for some years. The 25th of July, 1810, he had the rank of Major-General; and the 4th of June, 1814, that of LieutenantGeneral.

Previous to obtaining his commission in the 31st regiment, this officer quitted school unknown to his friends, who opposed his entering the army, and accompanied the 33d in 1776 to America, where he served till sent home by Lord Cornwallis, at the request of his friends. He was present at the taking of Long Island, New York, and Philadelphia; the battles of Whiteplains, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth; besides various skirmishes in New Jersey. Upon his return to England, in 1780, he served eighteen months as Ensign in the 1st West York Militia.

263. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LEONARD SHAFTO ORDE. THIS officer was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the late 132d foot, the 16th of September, 1795; Colonel in the army the 23rd of September, 1803; Major-General the 25th of July, 1810; and Lieutenant-General the 4th of June, 1814.

264. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL RICHARD BINGHAM. THIS officer received an Ensigncy in the 17th foot the 5th of October, 1787; and in May, 1790, a Lieutenancy and the Adjutancy. The 21st of May, 1793, he raised a company in Ireland, with which he was sent to Chatham, where it was drafted. He obtained a Company in the 102d foot the 31st of October, 1793; a Majority in Februáry, 1795; and a Lieutenant-Colonelcy the 16th of September, 1795. The regiment was drafted the 24th of September following, and this officer remained unattached till placed on half-pay the beginning of 1798. In July of the latter year he was sent to Alderney to take the command of the forces stationed there, and remained till July, 1799, when he was placed on the full-pay of the 6th West India regiment, and in August removed to the 9th foot. The 1st of August he embarked and joined the expedition under Sir James Pulteney, and afterwards that under Sir Ralph Abercromby. In December he returned to Lisbon, and in March, 1801, to England. The 24th of October, 1802, he was again placed on half-pay; and the 9th of July, 1803, appointed to the 3rd foot. The 25th of September, 1803, he obtained the rank of Colo ́nel; and the 25th of July, 1804, was placed on the home staff as Brigadier-General, and on which he continued till the 24th of June, 1806. In 1808, he was appointed to the staff in Ireland, and remained there till the 25th of May, 1809, when he was removed to the staff of Malta. He has since been employed on the staff of the Sussex district. The 25th of July, 1810, he received the rank of Major-General; and that of Lieutenant-General the 4th of June, 1814.

265. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JOHN LEE.

THIS officer was appointed Ensign in the 16th foot, the 28th of August, 1783; Lieutenant in the 71st foot, the 28th of April, 1784, and placed on half-pay. The 10th of January, 1787, he was appointed to the 70th foot; and the 28th of February 1788, to a Company in the 62d. From the beginning of 1790, to November of the same year, he was on half-pay of the 74th foot; in November, he was appointed to a Company in the 44th; from November, 1798, to May, 1795, he served as Captain of grenadiers in the expedition under Sir Charles Grey, and was at the capture of Martinique, Guadaloupe, and St. Lucie. The 1st of September, 1795, he was promoted to a Majority in the 44th foot: the 19th of September, 1795, to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the 112th; the 1st of January, 1797, placed on half-pay; and the 25th of September, 1803, he received the rank of Colonel. From December of the latter year to September, 1804, Colonel Lee served on the Volunteer Staff in Yorkshire, and was then removed to Ireland as BrigadierGeneral, where he continued till the 24th of June, 1806, and was re-appointed the 25th of May, 1808. He obtained the rank of Major-General the 25th of July, 1810; and that of Lieutenant-General the 4th of June, 1814.

266. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL

SIR HENRY CLINTON, G.C.B.

THIS officer is the son of the late General Sir Henry Clinton, and younger brother of the present Lieutenant-General Sir William Henry Clinton. He commenced his military career, the 10th of October, 1787, as an ensign in the 11th foot, from which he was removed to the 1st guards the 12th of March, 1789. From October, 1788, to August, 1789, he served as Lieutenant with the Brunswick corps, under Lieutenant-General de Riedesel in Holland; and the 25th of March, 1790, he joined his regiment, the 1st guards. He received a company in the 15th foot on the 6th of April following, from which he exchanged into the guards the 30th of November, 1792. In

January, 1793, he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, in which capacity he served the campaigns of 1793 and 1794, in the Netherlands; he was present at the action of St. Amand, battle of Famars, siege of Valenciennes, action of Lidreghem, battles of Wattignies and Maubeuge, and action of Vaux. On the 22d of April, 1794, he was appointed Major, by brevet, and with that rank was at the action of Camphin on the 10th of May following; in which being wounded, he was absent from the army to the 10th of August, when he joined near Breda.

Major Clinton next served at the siege of Nimeguen by the enemy. He returned to England with the Duke of York, and remained Aid-de-Camp to His Royal Highness until promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 66th regiment, on the 30th of September, 1795.

In October, Lieutenant-Colonel Clinton proceeded to join his regiment in the West Indies. He was present at the landing in St. Lucie, under the late Sir Ralph Abercromby, and at the siege and surrender of Morne Fortunée; after which he joined the 66th at Port-au-Prince in St. Domingo. The 20th of October, 1796, he again exchanged to the 1st guards, and sailed from St. Domingo to join that corps, but was made prisoner on the passage, and did not arrive in England until June, 1797. He served with the guards in Ireland in 1798, and in that year was appointed Aid-de-Camp to Lord Cornwallis, the Lord Lieutenant and Commander in Chief in that country, under whom he served the short campaign in Connaught, and was present at the surrender of the French force under General Humbert at Ballinamuck.

In April, 1799, Lieutenant-Colonel Clinton being attached to Lord William Bentinck, employed on a mission to the AustroRussian army in Italy, he was present at the battle of the Trebia, sieges of Alexandria and Seravalle, and at the battle of Novi; after which, being appointed to attend Marshal Suwarrow on his march into Switzerland, he was present at the action in forcing the passage of St. Gothard; at those of the Teufels Brück, Klonthaler See, and Glarus. Early in 1800, being employed on a mission to the Austrian army in Swabia, then commanded by Field-Marshal Lieutenant Kray, Lieutenant-Colonel