file killed, seventeen wounded, and seventeen missing. -qIn August a detachment of the regiment, and another of the 2nd, or Coldstream, attacked Melsungen, a town in Hesse-Cassel; they broke down the chevaux-de-frise; but failing to force the gates, fell back before the heavy fire of the enemylaxis 19'a ata ebore to

At the bloody battle of Brucken-Muhl, the brigade of Guards had to endure a terrible cannonade and suffered severely, particularly the two English regiments. On this occasion the guardsbmen piled up the dead bodies of their slain comorades, and fired over them, as from behind a I rampart. At this exciting time, Thomas, Viscount Saye and Sele, in the height of the confusion and slaughter, reprimanded a sergeant of the Coldbstreams for uttering an exclamation of horror, and was answered,..!!

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v'n Oh, Sir; you are now supporting yourself on the body of your own brother!" ̧.

azol This was his elder brother, Captain John Twisleton, who had just been slain, and added to the ghastly rampart; and the sergeant who spoke was an old and attached servant of the family. L. Lord Saye died Colonel of the 9th Foot in 9:1788.

The loss of the Scots Guards at Brucken-Muhl .t consisted of two sergeants and eight rank and Ifile killed; Lieutenant-Colonel Hale, Ensigns

Gwynne, Byron, and Girardot; three sergeants and forty-three rank and file wounded.

Soon after, the treaty of Fontainebleau gave calm to Europe, and on the 26th of January, 1763, the British troops began their homeward march through the province of Gueldres, to reach their transports at Williamstadt.

The campaign had reduced the 2nd battalion of the regiment to eleven officers and 745 men. Quick promotion must have followed, as we find that Ensign Roderick Gwynne, who was wounded at Brucken-Muhl, was full captain in 1764, when he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Fort William at Inverlochy.

In that year Highland music was first played by the bands of the Guards; and, according to the London Chronicle, " it was no uncommon thing to see a file of English redcoats beating time to the loyal tune of

"Over the water to Charlie."

CHAPTER V.

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THE AMERICAN WAR.

HEN the American colonists rose in revolt, though the idea of sending any of the Household troops to oppose them was reprobated by some persons in authority, as paying too great a compliment to the insurrection, a battalion, 1,062 strong, including officers, was detailed for foreign service from the three regiments of the brigade. After being cantoned on Wimbledon Common, and reviewed there by the King and General Carpenter, son of Colonel Carpenter, who was killed at Fontenoy, it sailed from Portsmouth on the 8th May, 1776, with the Hessians, Artillery, and the fleet, under the convoy of Commodore Hotham, in the Preston, a fifty-gun ship. All the officers wore the uniform of privates to save them from the American riflemen.

The men of the Guards were chosen by lot from the sixty-four companies of the brigade.

In this year John Maclellan, Lord Kirkcudbright (whose long-dormant title had been admitted by the House of Lords in 1773), was

appointed a Captain in the 3rd Guards, and died a Colonel in 1801. His title is now dormant...{ The mixed battalion (which was commanded by Colonel Edward Mathew, of the 2nd Guards) landed at Utrecht, on Long Island, where 30,000 troops were now assembled." It cannot but be a matter of regret," says Colonel Mackinnon, "that the reinforcement sent from England this year was delayed for so considerable a time. General Washington's army had never mustered 9,000 men, of whom 2,000 were unarmed; cons sequently, had the English army taken the field a few weeks sooner, the Americans must have been crushed by superiority in numbers alone, putting discipline and the well-known valour of British soldiers out of the question."

The campaign commenced under General Clin ton. At the battle of Long Island the Guards evinced their usual gallantry. An American force of great strength detailed from the rebel lines was driven back with great loss, the advance of our troops being covered by a brisk cannonade from the ships of war, and as the insurgents retired, vast numbers of them were drowned in a swamp. Of the troops, 361 of all ranks fell, but no separate detail of the Guards' loss is given. Hot

The bloodless capture of New York on the 15th September followed, and while Earl Piercy with three brigades remained to cover that city, on the 12th October the Guards, Light Infantry and

Reserve, marched out, and, embarking in flatbottomed boats at Turtle Bay, passed up the East River through Hell Gate, a celebrated strait near the west end of Long Island, remarkable for its whirlpools, which roar and boil in a narrow, crooked, and rocky channel. Landing near the town of East Chester, they crossed Frog's Neck, though the bridge had been broken down by the Americans led by Washington in person, and he, apprehensive that his communica tion to the eastward might be cut off, extended his left to the White Plains, where his troops resolved to make a stand. However, they abandoned this position on the 1st November in the night, after setting fire to their huts and barracks. General Howe advanced and found that they had left about 70 pieces of cannon behind.

There is no exact account of our loss in these movements, but it is supposed to have been between 190 and 200 killed and wounded.

In the Guards battalion only one man was killed.

Soon after this, General Washington retreated towards the Delaware. After serving under Colonel Mathews at the capture of Fort Washington, a strong place garrisoned by 3,000 colonists (under the insurgent Colonel McGaw), all of whom were made prisoners, the battalion went into winter quarters at Brunswick.

bu At the severe battle of Brandywine Creek, on