unremitting attention to his professional duties, and his | immediately embraced; and he was soon afterwards uniform conduct as a gentleman and a soldier, have not promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy in the same regiment. only procured for him the friendship of the commanders He went through a great deal of arduous duty with the under whom he has served through many active' cam-ninetieth at Gibraltar, and other places, and had a conpaigns, but have also endeared him to the other officers siderable share in the memorable Egyptian campaign. and privates; the last of whom not only honour and re- In the action of the 13th of March, 1801, Major-general vere him as their superior, but gratefully esteem him as Craddock's brigade formed the front, with the ninetieth a friend and benefactor. regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Hill, as its advanced guard. Sir Robert Wilson states the conduct of the ninetieth, on this occasion, to have been most honourable and praiseworthy, and that nothing could exceed the firmness and intrepidity with which they charged the enemy.

In this affair our hero received a wound in the right temple, from a musket-ball, the force of which was partly broken by a strong brass binding in front of his helmet; the blow, however, was so severe, that he was removed from the field in a state of insensibility. When his situation was made known to Lord Keith, he immediately sent for him on board the Foudroyant, and

His first commission was an ensigncy in the thirtyeighth regiment; and, having obtained leave of absence, in order to improve his military knowledge, he was placed at an academy at Strasburg, where he remained about twelve months, and then made a tour through Germany, France, and Holland, in company with his elder brother, and his uncle, the late Sir Richard Hill. Our hero appears to have commenced his military duties at Edinburgh, where he had the advantage of the best society, and received from many of the nobility and gentry particular marks of attention. His removal from Scotland took place in consequence of an offer he received of a lieutenantcy, in Captain Brough-treated him with an attentive kindness, which, no doubt, ton's independent company, on his raising the usual quota of men: this he soon accomplished, and then removed as lieutenant to the twenty-seventh. His friends being anxious for his early promotion, obtained permission for him to raise an independent company, which gave him the rank of captain in the army, in the year 1792.

accelerated his recovery, and enabled him to join his regiment, and continue on duty the whole of the campaign. Whilst he was on board the Foudroyant, he was frequently noticed by the Captain Pacha, who, with many good wishes for his welfare, presented him with a valuable gold box, a sword, and a rich shawl.

Shortly after the return of the troops from Egypt, the ninetieth was ordered to proceed through Scotland to Ireland; and Colonel Hill continued to perform his regimental duty, till he was appointed brigadier-general on the Irish staff. His principal stations in that country were Cork, Galway, and Fernoy; and the inhabitants of each of these places manifested their approbation of his conduct by public addresses, which they caused to be inserted in the Dublin papers. On leaving Cork, he was presented with the freedom of that city.

In the interval of his being attached to any particular corps, he accompanied his friend, Francis Drake, Esq. who went out as minister on a diplomatic mission to Genoa; whence Captain Hill, through the recommendation of his friend, proceeded to Toulon, and was employed as aid-de-camp to the Generals Lord Mulgrave, O'Hara, and Sir David Dundas, who successively commanded there. At this time, he had not attained his twenty-first year; but he had the satisfaction of receiving, from each of his commanders, decisive proofs of their approbation. At the time General O'Hara was taken prisoner, be was slightly wounded in his right hand, and narrowly escaped with his life: it being undetermined for some minutes, between himself and his brother aid-de-camp, Captain Snow, which should as-to join the army of England destined to act in the Pecend a tree, for the purpose of making observations respecting the enemy; the latter went up, and received a mortal wound, whilst Captain Hill, standing immediately beneath, was providentially preserved unhurt.

His next appointment was to a company in the fiftythird, with which regiment he was on duty in Scotland and Ireland. His conduct at Toulon recommended him to the notice and friendship of Sir Thomas Graham, (now Lord Lyndoch,) who made him an offer of purchasing a majority in the ninetieth: this proposal he

On the 30th of October, 1805, he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and attended Lord Cathcart in his expedition to Hanover; which, however, proved unsuccessful. He then returned to Ireland, and, in the summer of 1808, he embarked with his brigade at Cove,

ninsula. In the battles of Roleia and Vimiera he was actively employed, and gained the approbation and thanks of his comrades by his own conduct and that of his brigade.

During the whole of Sir John Moore's advance and retreat, the exertions of our hero were unremitting; and he was appointed, with a corps de reserve, to guard the embarkation of the army at Corunna. His humanity and attention to the suffering troops on their landing at Plymouth, excited the admiration of the humane and

enemy from Arroyo del Puerco; on the 26th, the troops arrived at Malpartida, which place the enemy had left for Caceres, followed by the second hussars, who skirmished with his rear-guard. On the 27th, General Hill

benevolent inhabitants of that place; and he was pre- | made a reconnoissance with his cavalry, and drove the sented by the mayor and corporation with an address, expressive of their cordial approbation of his conduct; and, as a proof that his proceedings were not obliterated from their recollection, the body corporate convened a meeting in 1811, and unanimously voted him the free-learning on his march to Torre Mocha, that the enemy dom of the borough, in terms of glowing praise, as stated in the Plymouth papers. On his arrival in England, in the beginning of the year 1809, he found himself appointed colonel of the third garrison battalion; and, about the same time, he became possessed of a handsome estate (Hoodwich Grange) and property, left to him by his uncle, the late Sir Richard Hill, Bart.

bad quitted that place, and halted his main body at Arroyo del Molino, leaving a rear guard at Albala, being quite ignorant of the near approach of the allies, he made a forced march to Alcuesca, where the troops were placed, so as to be out of sight of the enemy, and no fires were allowed to be made. The general had previously determined to surprise or to bring him to action. The account then proceeds:

The general had not been many days in the metropolis, before he received orders to hold himself in readi- "The troops moved from their bivouac near Aleuesca, ness for further service; and, as soon as his instructions about two o'clock in the morning of the 28th, in one were completed, he proceeded through England (pass-column right in front, direct on Arroyo del Molino. ing five days with his friends in Shropshire) to take the command of the troops ordered from Ireland for the second expedition to the Peninsula.

In the passage of the Douro, on the 12th of May, 1809, when Lieutenant-general Sir E. Paget received a wound that unfortunately deprived him of his arm, our hero took his place as first in command, and conducted the enterprise with complete success.

At the battle of Talavera, in which Lord Hill received a slight wound on the head; his firmness in repelling the successive attacks of the French upon his position, contributed materially to the success of the day. When the thanks of both Houses of Parliament were voted to the British army for this victory, Mr. Perceval, in noticing his exertions, observed, "that the manner in which General Hill had repulsed the enemy at the point of the bayonet was fresh in every one's memory." For his services on this occasion, the colonelcy of the ninety-fourth regiment was conferred upon him without any solicitation.

The generalship of our hero, in surprising and capturing a French corps in Spanish Estremadura, is particularly entitled to the notice of our readers. The following is his own account of the affair, in a letter addressed to Lord Wellington:

"My Lord,

"Merida, October 30, 1811.

"In pursuance of the instructions which I received from your lordship, I put a portion of the troops under my orders in motion, on the 22d instant, from their cantonments in the neighbourhood of Portalegre, and advanced with them towards the Spanish frontier."

The general proceeds to state that, on the 23d, the head of the column reached Albuquerque; on the 24th, Aliseda; on the 25th, the Conde de Penne Villamur

"As the day dawned, a violent storm of rain and thick mist came on, under cover of which the columns advanced in the direction and in the order which had been pointed out to them. The left column, under táé command of Lieutenant-colonel Stewart, marched direct upon the town; the seventy-first, one company of the sixtieth, and the ninety-second regiment at quarter distance; and the fiftieth in close column, somewhat in the rear, with the guns as a reserve. The right column, under Major-general Howard, having the thirty-ninth regiment as a reserve, broke off to the right, so as to turn the enemy's left; and, having gained about the distance of a cannon-shot to that flank, it marched in a circular direction upon the further point of the crescent on the mountain above mentioned. The cavalry, under Lieutenant-general Sir W. Erskine, moved between the two columns of infantry, ready to act in front, or move round either of them, as occasion might require. The advance of our columns was unperceived by the enemy until they approached very near, at which moment he was filing out of the town upon the Merida road; the rear of his column, some of his cavalry, and part of his baggage, being still in it; one brigade of his infantry had marched for Medillin an hour before day-light. The seventy-first and ninety-second regiments charged into the town with cheers, and drove the enemy every where at the point of the bayonet, having a few of their men cut down by the enemy's cavalry. The enemy's infantry which had got out of the town had, by the time these regiments got to the extremity of it, formed into two squares, with the cavalry on their left; the whole were posted between the Merida and Meddelin roads, fronting Alcuesca ; the right square being formed within half musket-shot of the town, the garden-walls of which were promptly lined by the seventy-first light infantry, while the ninety-second regiment filed ort

and formed line on their right, perpendicular to the enemy's right flank, which was much annoyed by the well-directed fire of the seventy-first. In the mean time, one wing of the fiftieth regiment occupied the town, and secured the prisoners; and the other wing, along with the three six-pounders, skirted the outside of it; the artillery, as soon as within range, firing with great effect upon the squares.

infantry and six hundred cavalry, being at this time totally dispersed. In the course of these operations, Brigadier-general Campbell's brigade of Portuguese infantry, (the fourth and tenth regiments,) and the eighteenth Portuguese infantry, joined from Casa de Don Antonio, where they had halted for the preceding night; and, as soon as I judged they could no longer be required at the scene of action, I detached them with the brigade, consisting of the fiftieth, seventy-first, and ninety-second regiments, and Major-general Long's brigade of cavalry, towards Merida. They reached

the enemy having, in the course of the night, retreated from hence in great alarm to Almendralego. The Count de Penne Villamur formed the advanced guard with his cavalry, and had entered the town previous to the arrival of the British.

"Whilst the enemy was thus occupied on his right, Major-general Howard's column continued moving round bis left; and our cavalry advancing, and crossing the head of their column, cut off the enemy's cavalry | St. Pedro that night, and entered Merida this morning; from his infantry, charged it repeatedly, and put it to the rout. The thirteenth light-dragoons, at the same time, took possession of the enemy's artillery. One of the charges made by the two squadrons of the second hussars, and one of the ninth light-dragoons, were particularly gallant; the latter commanded by Captain Gore, the whole under Major Bussche, of the hussars. I ought previously to have mentioned, that the British cavalry having, through the darkness of the night, and the badness of the road, been somewhat delayed, the Spanish cavalry, under the Count de Penne Villamur, was, on this occasion, the first to form upon the plain, and engaged the enemy until the British were enabled to come up. The enemy was now in full retreat; but Major-general Howard's column having gained the point to which it was directed, and the left column gaining fast upon him, he had no resource but to surrender, or disperse and ascend the mountain. He preferred the latter, and ascending near the eastern extremity of the ascent, and which might have been deemed inaccessible, was followed closely by the twenty-eighth and thirty-fourth regiments; whilst the thirty-ninth regiment and Colonel Ashworth's Portuguese infantry, followed rornd the foot of the mountain, by the Truxillo road, to take him again in flank. At the same time, Brigadier-general Morillo's infantry ascended to the left with the same view.

"The enemy's troops were by this time in the utmost panic; his cavalry was flying in every direction, the infantry threw away their arms, and the only effort of either was to escape. The troops under Major-general Howard's command, as well as those he had sent round the point of the mountain, pursued them over the rocks, making prisoners at every step, until his own men became so exhausted and few in number, that it was necessary for him to halt and secure the prisoners, and leave the further pursuit to the Spanish infantry under General Morillo; who, from the direction in which they had ascended, had now become the most advanced; the force General Girard had with him at the commencement, which consisted of two thousand five hundred

"The ultimate consequences of these operations I need not point out to your lordship; their immediate result is the capture of one general of cavalry, (Brune,) one colonel of cavalry, (the Prince D'Aremberg,) one lieutenant-colonel, (chief of the êtat-major,) one aidde-camp of General Girard, two lieutenant-colonels, one commissaire de guerre, thirty captains and inferior officers, and upwards of one thousand non-commissioned officers and soldiers, already sent off under an escort to Portalegre: the whole of the enemy's artillery, baggage, and commissariat, some magazines of corn, which he had collected at Caceres and Merida, and the contribution of money which he had levied on the former town, besides the total dispersion of General Girard's corps.

"The loss of the enemy, in killed and wounded, must have been very severe, while that on our side was comparatively trifling, as appears by the accompanying return, in which your lordship will lament to see the name of Lieutenant Strenuwitz, aid-de-camp of Lieutenant-general Sir W. Erskine, whose extreme gallantry led him into the midst of the enemy's cavalry, and occasioned his being taken prisoner.

"R. HILL.

"P. S. Since writing the above report, a good many more prisoners have been made; and I doubt not but the whole will amount to thirteen or fourteen hundred. Brigadier-general Morillo has just returned from the pursuit of the dispersed, whom he followed for eight leagues. He reports, that, besides those killed in the plain, upwards of six hundred dead were found in the woods and mountains. General Girard escaped in the direction of Serena, with two or three hundred men, mostly without arms, and is stated by his own aid-decamp to be wounded.”

In the speech of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, delivered by commission, at the opening of the British parliament in 1812, this affair is thus noticed :"The successful and brilliant enterprise in Spanish Estremadura, of the destruction of a French corps by a detachment of the allied army under Lieutenantgeneral Hill, is highly creditable to that distinguished officer, and the troops under his command, and has contributed materially to obstruct the designs of the enemy in that part of the Peninsula." In addition to this gratifying declaration, his Royal Highness conferred on our hero the order of the Bath, and appointed him governor of Blackness Castle.

"My Lord! The great events upon the peninsula of Europe, in which your lordship makes so conspicuous and brilliant a figure, are so deeply rooted in our memories, as to render an enumeration of them unneces sary; and I will not offend your lordship's delicacy by dwelling upon a subject which has attracted the notice and admiration of the world: But I am irresistibly im pelled to say, that the action at Almarez would alone have transmitted the name of Hill to the latest posterity.

"To a citizen of London, it must be matter of pride and exultation, to examine the state of the British peerage: he will there find that many of those noble characters, who now adorn the upper house of Parliament, have numbered among their ancestors some who have done honour to the civic chair of this great metropolis. And I am happy in this opportunity of declaring, in the presence of the noble lord whom I have had the honour to address, that the chair, which is now

was, nearly three centuries ago, graced by an ancestor of the noble lord, Sir Rowland Hill, who was the first Protestant lord-mayor of this city; a man who was not only eminently useful as a citizen of London, but who has left lasting monuments of his piety and munificence, by his extensive and liberal endowments in his native county."

Our hero was now entrusted with a separate command in the Peninsula, for the purpose of observing and counteracting the operations of Marshal Soult, whilst the Duke of Wellington was pursuing his ulte rior measures against the enemy. In this separate command, he displayed the greatest skill and judgement; but, as most of his proceedings have been also ably filled by the present excellent chief magistrate, ready detailed in our account of the Duke of Wellington, it would be superfluous to notice them again. In the battle of Vittoria he bore a conspicuous part, and might be considered the right hand of the illustrious Wellington on that memorable occasion. In all the subsequent battles, which led to the final termination of hostilities, we find our hero entrusted with the most important part of the operations; and in all the public despatches the warmest encomiums are bestowed upon him by the commander-in-chief. As a reward for his eminent services, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent was pleased to raise him to the British peerage, by the style and title of Baron Hill of Almarez, and of Hawkestone, in the county of Salop. Parliament also voted an annuity of two thousand pounds per annum to him and his two next surviving heirs; and, on the In the glorious battle of Waterloo, the subject of 11th of June, 1814, the chamberlain of the city of this memoir bore a distinguished part; and, in noticing London delivered to him, with the usual formalities, his services on that occasion, the Duke of Wellington the freedom of the city, and a valuable sword, accom-says-"I am particularly indebted to General Lord panied with the following remarks: Hill, for his assistance upon this as upon all former occasions."

"Lord Hill,-1 give you joy! and, in the name of the lord-mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the city of London, in common council assembled, give you their thanks, for the skill, bravery, and exertion, which you so eminently displayed upon the 21st day of June last, when the French army was completely defeated near Vittoria, by the allied forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington. It is with peculiar satisfaction that I carry into effect their unanimous resolution, by admitting you into the freedom of the metropolis of the British empire; and I have likewise the honour to present to your lordship this sword.

Lord Hill made a short but handsome reply; declaring it to be the proudest day of his life, when he received this honourable distinction from the citizens of this great metropolis; and declaring his readiness to employ the sword thus bestowed on him by their liberality, whenever he should receive his sovereign's commands to resume his military duties, for the defence and honour of his country.

"To judge of the magnitude of this memorial, the | Nelson's, and, exclusive of the pedestal, thirteen feet best mode will be to compare it with some of the most higher; and exceed the diameter of the Paris column remarkable structures of a similar kind. one foot; and will, it is presumed, be the largest doric *The Monument in London is fifteen feet in diame-column ever erected. The site is an elevated spot at the ter, Lord Nelson's column at Dublin thirteen feet, and entrance of Shrewsbury from the London and Bath the height of the shaft and capital about seventy-seven roads. The estimated expense, five thousand five bunfeet. The column erected by Buonaparte at Paris is dred pounds. fourteen feet in diameter, and one hundred and twenty in height; so that Lord Hill's column will be equal in diameter to the Monument, two feet more than Lord

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL

THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA.

THIS accomplished nobleman, who, in consequence | dition to Holland; and, in the general attack made on

of his meritorious conduct at the battle of Waterloo, the 2d of October, 1799, his lordship was attached to was elevated to the rank of a Marquis, having before succeeded to the earldom of Uxbridge by the death of his father, was born the 17th of May, 1768, and received the first rudiments of his education at Westminster; whence he was subsequently removed to Christ Church, Oxford.