of the day and as your Excellency was an eye-witness to the difficulties they surmounted, I need not say more on the subject; and when all behaved well it would be invidious to distinguish particular merit. Major Henderson was wounded and disabled from further service by a ball in the breast, in close contact with the enemy Being myself afterwards disabled, the command would have devolved on that gallant officer Captain Stark, had he not, with Captain Darling, also been wounded about the same time. I understand by the exertions of Captain Sutherland and Mathewson, the regiment was formed, and prepared to advance in the morning, to carry into effect your Excellency's plan of forcing the passes of the bridge, to the success of which you were an eye-witness.

"To the Staff of my brigade I feel much indebted: BrigadeMajor Brereton was amongst the foremost in the attack, and continued with them all night: Captain Grey, Assistant-Quarter and Barrack-Master-General, was also most actively employed till disabled by a wound near the close of the action.

"I have sincerely to regret the loss of many brave officers and soldiers, killed and wounded; the return of which, as far as can at present be collected, I have the honor to enclose.

(Signed)

"I have the honor to be, &c.
"C. WALE,
Brigadier-General.

"To Lieutenant-General, Sir George Beckwith, K. B.
&c. &c. &c."

GENERAL ORDERS.

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"Head-Quarters, Beau Vallon, Guadaloupe, "February 5th, 1810.

"The Commander of the Forces, not being yet in possession of official reports from the general officers commanding divisions and brigades, intended to have deferred adverting in public orders to the high sense he entertains of the eminent services rendered by the generals, the staff, the officers of all ranks, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the army now serving under his immediate command, until the final reduction of this important colony: but the conduct of the Royal York Rangers,

under the command of Major Henderson, effected in the pre sence of Brigadier-General Wale, commanding the reserve, of which corps this regiment constitutes the principal part, has been of a nature so brilliant and so decisive in its effects, that the Commander of the Forces feels it his duty to return his thanks in this public manner to Brigadier-General Wale, to Major Henderson, and to the officers and men of the Royal York Rangers, for their distinguished valor, in forcing the enemy from their entrenchments and fastnesses in the woods and mountains, on the evening of the 3rd instant, turning the left of their position, seizing and maintaining the heights which commanded it; and the General is not less sensible of the merits and discipline of this young corps, in having the next morning at daybreak, after being deprived of the talents and experience of the Brigadier-General, and of Major Henderson, their Commanding Officer, both of whom were carried off the field wounded during the night, persisted in completing the important objects arising from their position, by detaching under their Captains, whose individual merits he cannot at this moment designate, and driving the enemy from his batteries opening the passage of the bridge of Noziere to the army, which was not to be forced in front.

"Such a service is a precious deposit in the history of any corps, and cannot fail being honored with some signal mark of the approbation of their King and country, and the Commander of the Forces trusts that the state of discipline of this regiment, its distinguished merits last campaign.in maintaining Fort Edward, under the ordnance of Port Desaix, and the exertions of Major Henderson, its Commanding Officer, on that and on the present occasion, will secure to this Officer all that consideration and promotion, which his uncommon services so highly entitle him to.' Head-Quarters, Beau Vallon, Guadaloupe, 66 'February 6th, 1810. "The capitulation of the Island of Guadaloupe, and its dependencies, was signed by the Commissioners on both sides last night, and ratified this morning at 8 o'clock by the Admiral and Commander of the Forces.

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"The enemy are prisoners of war, to be sent to England, not to serve until duly exchanged.

Thus, by the general exertion and co-operation of the fleet and army, has been effected the important conquest of this colony, in nine days from the landing of the first division, and with a loss which, however to be lamented, from the character and merits of the parties, is comparatively small from the nature of such a service.

"The Commander of the Forces returns his public thanks to Major-General Hislop, commanding the first division, for his uniform attention and exertions in the discharge of his duty.

"To Brigadier-General Harcourt, commanding the second division, for his activity in carrying into execution his instructions for compressing the enemy, and for the judgment he has evinced in the whole course of these operations.

"To Brigadier-General Barrow, commanding the second brigade, for his general conduct.

"To Brigadier-General Maclean, commanding the third brigade, for his zeal and activity on all occasions.

"To Brigadier-General Skinner, commanding the fourth brigade, for his unremitting attention in effecting whatever has been entrusted to him and to Brigadier-General Wale, commanding the reserve, for the attention paid by him, in the first instance, to bringing up provisions for the ariny from the landing at St. Mary's: for the judgment with which he penetrated through the woods from the heights above Trois Rivieres, to the upper extremity of the Palmiste, on the morning of the 2nd; and for his subsequent march to Morne Houel on the same night, which covered the right of the army on approaching the enemy, and led to the brilliant and important termination of the operations, so fully described in the General orders of yesterday, and for which service the Commander of the Forces has already given his public opinion.

"The General desires to convey his thanks to BrigadierGeneral Gledstanes, the Quarter-Master-General, and to all the other officers of this department, for their exertions and services.

"To Brigadier-General Ramsay, the Adjutant-General, and to the officers of this department, for their uniform attention to their duty.

"To Brigadier-General Sir Charles Shipley, comman d

the Royal Engineers, for his exertions with the second division

of the army.

"To Colonel Burton, of the Royal Artillery, for the order manifested by that part of the corps under his command attached to the brigades; and the General is persuaded that had the powers of the enemy enabled him to maintain himself in such manner as to render it necessary to attack him in form with cannon and mortars, the ordnance department, generally, would have evinced the same superiority and excellence which was so conspicuous last campaign at Martinique.

"To his personal Staff, for their exertions and services on all occasions, the General desires to express his obligations.

"To Commissary-General Bullock, and bis department, for the laborious but important duties incident to this branch; and to Doctor Baillie, the inspector of hospitals, and to the medical officers of the army, for their effectual and unremitting attentions to the comfort of the sick and wounded.

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"The Commander of the Forces also returns his public thanks to the officers of all ranks, for their meritorious exertions, and to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers for the cheerfulness with which they have undergone the fatigues of a march, difficult in its nature, through the strongest country in the world, and the spirit they have manifested upon all occasions to close with the enemy."

81. GENERAL THOMAS ROBERTS.

THIS officer entered the army in 1771 as a Cornet in the horse guards; in 1773, being desirous of active employment, he negotiated the purchase of a company in the 38th foot, to which he did not succeed; in 1780 he obtained a troop in the horse guards; in 1794 he effected an exchange into the line, and a large force being immediately required for foreign service, he suggested to Mr. Pitt that the principal inhabitants of the manufacturing towns should be invited to promote the recruiting service in the places under their influence. The idea being adopted, 10,000 men were shortly raised, 2,000 of whom were recruited by this officer, and formed into the 111th regiment, of which he was appointed Colonel. In the course of a year

the

111th regiment was drafted into the 99th foot, and this officer was placed upon half pay. On the 18th of June, 1798, he was promoted to the rank of Major-General; and in 1804 was placed upon the home Staff; in which situation he continued till the 30th of October, 1805, when he was appointed LieutenantGeneral, and on the 4th of June, 1814, General.

82. GENERAL GEORGE JAMES,

EARL LUDLOW, G.C.B.

His Lordship was appointed Ensign in the 1st foot guards in May, 1778, and in February, 1781, went to America with a detachment of his regiment. In March following he was appointed Lieutenant and Captain. He joined Lord Cornwallis's army in Virginia, and served at the siege and surrender of York Town, where he was made prisoner, The 24th of November, 1790, he was promoted to a company with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; and in 1793, at the conclusion of the siege of Valenciennes, joined the army in Flanders. He served in the different actions of the remainder of that and the following campaign till wounded, the 17th of May, 1794, in the vicinity of Roubaix, when having lost his left arm he returned to England. The 21st of August, 1795, he obtained the rank of Colonel; and the 18th of June, 1798, that of Major-General. He was placed on the Staff of the home district, and afterwards, in 1800, sent in command of the 2d brigade of guards to Ireland, whence he sailed in August of that year with the army under the late Sir James Pulteney in the expedition to Ferrol. He afterwards proceeded to the Mediterranean, and landed with his brigade on the morning of the 8th of March, 1801, in Egypt. He was engaged in the battles of the 13th and 21st of that month, and also in the approach to the westward of Alexandria, immediately previous to its surrender, where he commanded a brigade of the line. In December, 1801, he returned to England, and in 1803 was placed on the Staff. The 10th of October, 1805, he received the Colonelcy of his present regiment, the 38th foot; and the 30th of the same month, the rank of Lieutenant-General. In 1805, he commanded a division of the army in the expedition to Hanover,