and observed that the soldiers must make an exertion | grateful and modest reply, of which the following is the most interesting passage: to accomplish them. The rear-guard,' said he, 'cannot stop; and those who fall behind must take their fate.' These representations, however, proved ineffectual: in fact, it was impossible to obey them; mauy of the men were exhausted and foot-sore, and could not keep their ranks; others, who had totally broken all discipline as soon as the route began, left them, in order to obtain liquor. "The partial actions at Lugo, and the risk to which he had been exposed of a general one, checked Soult in his pursuit; and he was too sensible of the danger he had escaped, to trust himself again so near the British without a superior force. The British army, therefore, gained twelve hours upon him, and, on the 11th of January, reached Corunna, with little further molestation. Here, if the British had been numerous enough to have occupied a range of hills four miles from the town, they could have defended themselves against very superior numbers: but these heights required a larger force than the English army, of which not less than a fourth part had foundered in the way. Both flanks would have been liable to have been turned: it was therefore necessary to relinquish them to the enemy, and to be content with occupying a second and lower range." On this position, arrangements were made for that memorable battle which covered the British army with laurels, and enabled them to embark with perfect safety, though their gallant leader fell in the contest. From this time, our hero does not appear to have engaged the public attention, until the brilliant battle of Waterloo, in which he bore a conspicuous part, having the command of the cavalry on that memorable occasion. After distinguishing himself by repeated feats of valour, at the close of the day he received a wound, by almost the last shot fired; and, had it not been for this circumstance, it has been confidently affirmed, that Buonaparte would have been his prisoner. The amputation of his leg, in consequence of this wound, obliged him to return as soon as possible to England; and the Prince Regent, in consideration of his eminent services, thought proper to confer on him the dignity of a marquis, by the style and title of Marquis of Anglesea. On his way to his family-seat, the marquis was received with triumphal honours at the city of Litchfield. The corporation addressed him in suitable terms of eulogy; and the recorder, with appropriate congratulations, presented a sword voted to him. His lordship made a "In respect to that great, illustrious, and beloved commander, under whom I have the honour to serve, I am quite unable to speak of him in any thing like due terms of praise. If I were to attempt it, I feel conscious that I should be obliged to abandon such an intention. In that arduous contest which has led to such important results, our troops, under any other commander, must, I conceive, have failed. With any other troops under that great chieftain, the struggle must have been unsuccessful. It required, and tried equally, the skill and the valour of our resources. For myself, gentlemen, I had little more than a plain duty to fulfil. With such zeal in my officers, and devotion in my soldiers, I had only to lead them into combat. Gentlemen, I shall ever regard this token of your esteem and approbation with the proudest feelings of grateful remembrance; and shall gird this sword on my side with just emotions of pride. Though, in future, I cannot look forward to the hope of that activity and vigour which I have formerly enjoyed, but must, in a degree, calculate on an impaired state of bodily health, and an occasional languor and feebleness of mind consequent upon such indisposition; yet, when I feel this sword by my side, I shall derive new strength and vigour from the recollections it will excite. "Gentlemen, I can add no more than that I shall ever remember, with the liveliest emotions of pleasure, the honour which your kindness has conferred upon me." On the 18th of June, 1816, the anniversary of the victory of Waterloo, the first stone of a column to the memory of our hero was laid, with great ceremony, on the summit of an eminence called Craigy Dinas, on the banks of the river Menai, and commanding an extensive and picturesque prospect. Immense crowds from the circumjacent country assembled on this gratifying occasion; and the strongest marks of respect to the gallant general were universally exhibited. The inscription on the stone is as follows:-"This stone was laid on the 18th of June, 1816, being the first of a column to be erected in commemoration of the consummate skill and undaunted bravery displayed in the sanguinary field of Waterloo, by Lieutenant-general the Earl of Uxbridge, who commanded the cavalry on that memorable day. His distinguished services were rewarded by his prince with the title of Marquis of Anglesea, and his grateful countrymen are anxious to perpetuate them, by this tribute of their admiration." THIS gallant officer entered the army, in the year | jected, and he embarked with him on the expedition 1771, as an ensign in the twelfth regiment of foot. From the year 1773 to 1778, he served in Gibraltar under Generals Sir Robert Boyd and Lord Heathfield. He got his company in the seventy-fifth regiment, and remained a captain for the long period of sixteen years. In 1783 he commanded the seventy-fifth regiment, then quartered at Bristol; and, by his intrepid conduct and resolution, quelled a mutiny which broke out in that regiment, and which, from the complexion it had assumed, threatened the most serious consequences: For this example of a true military spirit, he received his sovereign's approbation, through the then commanderin-chief, Field-Marshal Conway. From the reduction of his regiment in 1783, he remained on half-pay until 1794, and resided chiefly in Pembrokeshire, where his ancestors, an ancient and highly respectable family, had long lived in the esteem and affections of a numerous circle of friends. In 1794, our hero embarked for the West-Indies, trusting to his fortune and his conduct for that promotion, to which a period of sixteen years, with the rank of only captain, certainly entitled him. Here he was soon distinguished by his mental endowments: and Sir John Vaughan, who then commanded in chief in the West-Indies, gave him a majority in the 68th regiment. He also made him his aid-de-camp; and having now a better opportunity of remarking his activity of mind, and talents for public business, he appointed him deputy quarter-master-general, by which situation he obtained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and in which department he acquitted himself with the greatest credit. against St. Lucia, where the general signified in public orders, "that all orders coming through Lieutenantcolonel Picton should be considered as the orders of the commander-in-chief." On the capture of this island, the general, without any solicitation, recommended him for the lieutenant-colonelcy of the sixty-eighth regiment. From St. Lucia, Colonel Picton sailed with Sir Ralph on the expedition to St. Vincent's, which was taken by storm; and, upon the conclusion of this short but brilliant campaign, he went to Martinique, and thence to England. Colonel Picton again sailed with Sir Ralph Abercrombie for the West-Indies, and arrived at Martinique in the month of January, 1797. The expedition against Trinidad being at this time resolved on, the armament sailed for that island in the ensuing month; and, the conquest of the colony being completed, Colonel Picton was, without any recommendation, appointed governor. When he waited on Sir Ralph to return his acknowledgments, that gallant officer replied, "Colonel Pictou, if I knew any officer, who, in my opinion, could discharge the duties annexed to this situation better than you, to him I would have given it: therefore, no thanks are due to me for it." From this time till the year 1802, when the government of Trinidad was put in commission, Colonel Picton discharged the duties of governor and captaingeneral, to the entire satisfaction of his majesty's ministers, and received the thanks of the different commanders-in-chief on the station. The subsequent transactions, in consequence of the appointment of the commission, are sufficiently known: On the appointment of General Knox to the head of the characters of our hero's accusers have also been the quarter-master-general department, the subject of recorded; and we cannot better express our feelings, this biographical sketch intended to return to Europe, than by adopting the following remarks of the Antibut was requested by Sir Ralph Abercrombie, who ar- Jacobin Review, illustrative of the conduct of this rived in the West-Indies in the year 1796, to remain; brave officer. "In the important operations of the hoping, as that distinguished officer himself expressed, siege of Badajoz, and its subsequent capture by storm, that he might have an opportunity of returning in a the whole of the officers and men employed conducted way more agreeable to him, if he would remain the themselves with such consummate skill and bravery, campaign. This invitation was too flattering to be re-that it would be highly presumptuous in a public writer On the 1st of January, 1803, our hero received the rank of colonel; and, on the 25th of April, 1808, that of major-general. In 1809, Major-general Picton commanded a brigade. employed at the siege of Flushing, of which fortress he was subsequently appointed governor; and in this situation his humane exertions contributed to the relief of the sick soldiers, and considerably alleviated the miseries of the inhabitants. From that scene of sick to raise any distinction between them. But our readers will readily pardon us for indulging a feeling of self-gratulation, in contemplating the conduct of an officer, whom we, from a pure regard for justice and for truth, contributed to rescue from the impetuous current of public prejudice which was let loose against him, and from the destructive effects of popular clamour, to which he had been most unjustly consigned. We opposed, to the polluted but furious torrent, a firm rampart of truth: we met the senseless, but outrageousness and calamity he returned home to England, laclamour, with the commanding voice of justice. The law, at length, in tardy reparation of his injuries, proclaimed the innocence, and vindicated the honour, which, from the beginning of the contest, we had plainly described, and boldly defended. We had descried, even in the representation of his enemies, and in the conduct which formed the ground of their charges against him, indisputable proofs of that manly, honourable, and resolute spirit, which has since been unequivocally displayed in the field of glory, to his own honour, and to the advantage of his country." bouring under an attack of fever and ague; and his health was scarcely re-established before he was placed on the staff of the army in the Peninsula. He was soon appointed by Lord Wellington to the command of the third division, which was always selected upon any occasion of actual service; "not, (as a distinguished officer has well observed,) because the troops of the third division were better, but because the general was so good." On the 14th of October, 1811, the colonelcy of the twelfth regiment became vacant by the death of the The following facts relative to the prosecution iusti- late General Picton; in consequence of which the tuted against him by the malignancy of his enemies Duke of York recommended our hero to the Regent's are not generally known. The tardy process of the attention, and he was gazetted colonel of the seventylaw was well calculated to exhaust the resources of an seventh regiment of foot, vice Sir C, Hastings, appointofficer who was known not to possess any income be-ed to the twelfth regiment. The death of his uncle put yond his pay. This consideration operated so forcibly Major-general Picton in possession of a considerable on the mind of the late Duke of Queensbury, (who, sum of money, with which he purchased an estate in notwithstanding his frailties, had many virtues,) that his native country, Wales. The produce of this estate, he requested General Este, whom he knew to be the as well as the profits arising from one which he had friend of General Picton, to make him an offer of ten bought in Trinidad, he distributed among his family, thousand pounds, in any way least offensive to the feel-reserving only his military pay for his own support. ings of General Picton, to defray the expenses of the long-protracted suit. The offer was gratefully acknowledged, but politely rejected, on the reason assigned, that the liberality of an opulent uncle had prevented the general from feeling any effects from the frequent calls which the law had made upon his purse. Of the disinterestedness of this gallant officer, some idea may be formed from the following facts:-The inhabitants of Trinidad voted the sum of five thousand pounds to Lieutenant-colonel Picton, after he had resigned their government, as a small testimony of their gratitude for his conduct whilst governor of that settlement. Our hero, more inclined to confer favours than to receive them, was extremely unwilling to accept of this present; and only did so under the conviction that it was an honourable testimony to that character which had been so wantonly assailed: but, on the capital of Trinidad being destroyed by fire, and a subscription set on foot for the relief of the sufferers, he nobly came forward and devoted the whole of that sum to so benevolent a purpose. Our hero continued to serve in the Peninsula during the greater part of the war: and, from the circumstance of his being present in every action that took place with the army under the commander-in-chief, excepting the battle of Salamanca, he obtained the appellation of the right hand of Wellington. To his presence of mind, in converting a feint into a real attack, the capture of Badajoz is justly attributed, as, by this able manoeuvre, the British obtained possession of a castle which commanded the tower. On the 4th of June, 1813, he received the rank of lieutenant-general; and, in the same year, his services were rewarded with the order of the Bath. When, in consequence of the second usurpation of Buonaparte, an English army was sent into the Netherlands, government offered him the command of a division; but, apprehending the Duke of Wellington, as commander-in-chief, would leave the British force to some officer in whom he could not repose the same confidence, he declined the offer, adding, however, if the duke should personally require his services, he would |