one, he was most actively and laboriously employed in getting the army, (which, with the exception of the British troops, was principally composed of young battalions, hastily got together), into order. He was more especially anxious to introduce an uniform system of movement among these troops, so that, although scattered over a very wide extent of country, they might, if suddenly called upon to act in a body, move with regularity as if they had been kept assembled en masse. And when this emergency did afterwards occur, in the month of June 1815, those who witnessed the extraordinary expedition with which the army was brought together, and the perfect ease with which each regiment brigade and division took up its allotted station, will duly appreciate the excellent method and system, which sir H. Clinton, by the most zealous and unremitting attention, had established in the heterogeneous body of which the army, which fought on the ever memorable day of Waterloo, was composed.

On that day, sir H. Clinton commanded a division of the corps under lord Hill. At the beginning of the battle he was placed on the right of Hougoumont but, as the object of the French became manifest, the division was moved to the more immediate support of, and to the left of, Hougoumont. On the general advance of the line at the close of the day, this fine division was moved forward, and followed the enemy's retreat, until night put an end to the operations of this hard-fought battle.

On the subsequent advance of

the army to Paris, and during the occupation of that metropolis by the Allies, sir Henry remained with his division encamped in bivouack in the Bois de Boulogne, where it was distinguished for its order, excellent discipline and perfect precision of movement. During the winter of 1815, and till May of the following year, he remained with his division, which formed part of the Army of Occupation. In the month of May of that year, he received, for the third tine, the thanks of the House of Commons, and this last time in his place, when the Speaker addressed him in the following words.

Lieutenant-general Sir H.

Clinton;

"After serving through the long campaigns of the Peninsular War, from Salamanca to Orthés and Toulouse, there remained nothing for a soldier to desire, but to be present at the great Battle of Waterloo; and if in that terrible conflict it were possible to select one spot more than another where our national military character was put to its fiercest trial, it must have been that where you were commanding, with Hougoumont in your front, and directing or supporting the brave brigades of Byng, Maitland and Adam.

"In estimating the services of that gallant army, this country has not contemplated alone the glory of a single day; they have looked to the toilsome marches and sharp combats which preceded it, and to the steady, skilful, and victorious march by which that army completed its success, and entered the enemy's capital. They have seen also, with a just exultation, that whilst British troops

held the gates of Paris by right of conquest, their camp displayed, at the same time, a model of good order and well-regulated discipline, which even the conquered could not but applaud and admire. "Your present stay amongst us we understand to be only for a short period. But on returning to your brethren in arms, let them be assured by you, that whenever their foreign service shall terminate, they will find that their great deeds have not been forgotten by us; and we trust, that, on re-entering the metropolis of their native country, they will behold some lofty and durable monument, which shall commemorate, to the latest ages, our never-ending gratitude to the armies who have fought for us, and the God who has delivered us,

"You, Sir, are the last of those distinguished officers to whom our thanks have remained undelivered; and I do now, in the House, and by the command of the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in parliament assembled, deliver to you their unanimous thanks for your indefatigable zeal and exertions upon the 18th of June 1815, when the French army, commanded by Buonaparte, received a signal and complete defeat." Upon which lieutenant-general sir H. Clinton said,

"Mr. Speaker;--I am extremely grateful to the House for the honour which has been conferred upon me, by the vote of its thanks for my services in the Battle of Waterloo; a reward to which you, Sir, so well know how to give the full value; and I wish to assure you, Sir, that I am fully sensible of the favour I have received at your hands.

"It is impossible for me to mention the name of Waterloo, and not to feel an irresistible desire to join in the general voice of gratitude to the hero who commanded us, and in that of admiration of the extraordinary talents which he has so long and so usefully devoted to the service of his country.

"An army bastily drawn together, composed of the troops of various nations, and amongst which were counted several brigades of inexperienced militia, was the force the Duke of Wellington had to oppose to one of the most formidable and best appointed armies which France ever produced.

"Every officer and soldier, I am persuaded, did his duty; but the Duke of Wellington alone was capable of giving union to such a force.

"No other man living could have rendered the service which he performed, with an army SO composed.

"His great name filled it with confidence: by his constant vigilance, his undaunted firmness and the exertion of the greatest intrepidity and perseverance, he was able, throughout that well-contested day, to defeat every effort of a powerful and enterprising enemy, and ultimately to gain that victory by which he restored peace to Europe, and increased to the impossibility of our ever requiting it, his country's debt of gratitude.

Here sir Henry's public life may be considered as closed; for although he was with his division during a part of 1817, he was never entirely free from a malady with which he was attacked in the month of June, 1816, which had the character of asthma, and the attacks of which were so frequent,

and so distressing, that during the paroxysms, he was totally incapacitated for the discharge of business. Very soon after the commencement of his illness, he had the misfortune to lose his wife, the late lady Susan, daughter of Francis, Lord Elcho, and sister to the present earl of Wemyss and March; who had been his faithful and most attached companion since his marriage in 1800, and had accompanied him to India. During the winter of 1816-17, he availed himself of leave of absence, to travel abroad, in the hope of recovering his health. He visited the south of France, the north part of Italy, and Switzerland, where, for a short time, the complaint seemed to have in some degree subsided, and there was a gleam of returning health; but as he proceeded by Paris, to join the Army of Occupation, the disease again assailed him with all its violence, and appeared to baffle every thing that was done to allay it. He however persevered; resumed all his duties with his wonted zeal, on joining his division; and, whenever he had the least respite from his complaint, exerted himself in perfecting the fine battalions of which his division was composed, in every branch of their military duties. In consequence of his exertions, these British troops, which were stationed, during the summer of 1817, in the vicinity of St. Omer's, were peculiarly distinguished for their excellent order, high state of discipline, and the admirable precision of their move

ments.

Towards the latter end of September, sir H. Clinton's complaint had become so painful and oppressive, and he was so exhausted by its severe and repeated attacks, that he was at length compelled to

give up all his active pursuits, and to return to England. Although, from the high respect in which his character as an officer was held, he for some time remained as the ostensible head of his division, yet he was totally unable to do any duty afterwards.

Sir Henry continued to struggle against his complaint during 13 years, and although extremely reduced, and often subjected to great bodily suffering, his mind continued unimpaired to the last. And when free from absolute pain, he enjoyed the society of his friends, and mixed with great cheerfulness in conversation. This continued to within a very few days of his death, which took place at his country house at Ashley, near Lymington, Hants, on the morning of the 11th of December, 1829, in the fifty-eighth year of his age.

Sir Henry was tall, and till his last long illness, had been remarkably handsome; his general appearance and manner was manly and noble. He was enthusiastically attached to his profession; and he took the greatest delight in informing himself of its duties, in the several stations he had filled, whether as a regimental or a staffofficer. No one was more familiar with every duty and detail, or more punctual in the performance of them: while, at the same time, no one was more considerate of those under his command. With him this feeling was so strong and habitual, that, during all his long illness, he kept up a constant correspondence with the officer commanding his regiment, and when not absolutely compelled, by acute suffering, to desist from all attention to business, interested himself warmly in the concerns and wellbeing of the regiment itself, and

ticular pleasure in the study of military geography. Early habits. had given him a taste for the profession in which he first began his public life; he retained a strong recollection of all he had then seen and been taught, and he never went to sea, that he did not keep the ship's reckoning.

In conversation he was cheerful; his memory was excellent, and his judgment sound. His character was frank, his manner courteous, and no one was more firm in his friendships, or more affectionate to all his relations. In every situation in which he was placed, he upheld moral rectitude; yet he was indulgent to the errors of others, and his religion, though he was punctilious in the discharge of its duties, was without ostentatious display.

Russian Voyage of Discovery. -A Letter from Dr. Martens, Botanist to the expedition, contains the following particulars: Our ship, the Siniävin,' sailed from the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul on the 19th of October, 1827, and arrived on the 22nd of November off the island of Ooalan, which was re-discovered by captain Duperey, in the Coquille, in 1824; where we found a people, in the purest state of nature. Not a single weapon, nor any thing resembling a weapon, was met with in the whole island. The complexion of the natives is of a bright brown, the arms and the thighs tatooed, their hair in a bunch braided together upon the head, and adorned with flowers; their features resemble those of the Malays. Our naturalists found them most faithful guides on their excursions, and the most careful keepers of the insects and plants which they collected. One of their chiefs, named Sipa, offered them his dwelling for their residence; and here also they had an opportunity of making themselves acquainted with the domestic arrangements of the inhabitants.

The

Ooalanese are particularly distinguished from the inhabitants of the other Carolines, by being entirely free from the propensity to stealing. They treat their women with great kindness and affection. We could not obtain any clear

notions of the religion of these people. Their diet consists of bread-fruit, banians, sugar-cane, cocoa-nuts, fish, snipes, pigeons, and some wild fowl. As far as we could learn, the island is divided into between forty and fifty districts, each of which contains several villages, and belongs to a chief. Several of these chiefs live on a small island, separated from the rest of the inhabitants. One of them was treated with particular reverence: he might be considered, in some measure, as the king of the whole. After remaining three weeks among these people, the Siniävin' continued its voyage on the 20th of December. On the End of January, 1828, they discovered a new group of islands, the highest and also the largest of all the Carolines, except the Pellew Islands. The ship cruised eight days among these islands; but no attempt to land was made, because the inhabitants appeared very hostile. When the 'Siniävin' put out a boat, to look for an anchorage or landing-place, it was immediately surrounded by other boats, the crews of which used very menacing gestures. They carried short spears, headed with teeth of the saw-fish, and a sling made of plaited rushes. When pistols charged only with powder were fired at them, they made no impression on them, and yet every thing indicated that these natives