the second campaign to the close of the war, when he was rewarded with the peerage as Baron Combermere, and the 20th Dragoons. In the army of observation he was second in command. Lord Combermere having married, a second time, Miss Greville, niece of Baroness Crewe, on the 18th June 1814, finally received the government of the Leeward Islands.

The war found Lieut.-Gen. Sir Alexander Campbell a Major in the army, whence he quickly became Lieut.Colonel of the 74th foot and (wounded at Talavera), Colonel of the York Light Infantry Volunteers. This corps being disbanded, he is now Colonel of the 80th, (Lieut.-Gen. in 1814,) and has also enjoyed the government of the Isle of France.

Sir Henry Frederic Campbell, a Guardsman since 1786, has served much on the staff. In the present instance he was wounded in the face, and compelled to return to England.

Sir Alan Camerou raised, and in consequence arrived at the full Colonelcy of the 79th foot. He is a MajorGeneral of 1810, and K.C.B.

Cornet of the 16th Light Dragoons, in 1786, Lieut. in 1791, General George Anson joined the 20th Dragoons, with which he served five years in Jamaica; obtaining a troop in 1792, and the Majority in 1794. Re-exchanging

into the 16th, in September, 1797, he returned to England, and obtained the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the 20th, from which, in 1798, he removed to the 15th, and served with it in Holland. In 1805, with the appointment of Aidede-camp to the King, he received the rank of Colonel, and went as Lieut.-Colonel of the 16th, in 1809, to Portugal. He was immediately made Brigadier-General, and commanded a cavalry brigade in Portugal on the occasion of the present section, shortly after which he became Major-General. In 1814 he received the Colonelcy of the 23d Light Dragoous, and became Knight Commander of the Bath.

The date of services, all that can be added here, should mark the name of Sir Edward Howorth, thus distinguished in the powerful arm under which he served. He entered the army it is believed in 1779, and in the regular gradations of the artillery became Major-General 4th June,

1811.

OPERATIONS IN THE EASTERN SEAS: LORD MINTO, LIEUT.GENS. THE HON. J. ABERCROMBY, SIR S. AUCHMUTY; MAJORGENS. HENRY WARDE, and FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WETHERALL; ADMIRALS BERTIE, AND STOPFORD; COMMODORES W. ROBERT BROUGHTON AND JOSIAS ROWLEY. CAPTURE OF THE ISLANDS OF BOURBON, MAURITIUS AND JAVA, 1809, 1810, AND 1811.

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The capture of Java completed the tions in the Indian Seas, which had consisted in the reduction of the Dutch Islands of Amboyna, Banda; and those of France, Bourbon and the Isle of France.

Lord Minto, Governor General of India, determined on accompanying this expedition for the purpose of arranging the government of Java, should it be reduced, of the failure of which from the existing spirit of the Dutch Governor-General Jansen,

there was much cause for apprehension. Sir Samuel Auchmuty, though he rendered full justification to all joined with him, yet it appears accomplished the end only by a vigorous, and well combined plan, in opposition to the opinions, as far as they were elicited, of Lord Minto, Colonels Gillespie, Gibbs, &c.

The introduction of the native forces in this vote, affords an opportunity of marking here the justice of that tribute of praise so often earned in the most difficult operations of the war. Their value has ever been highly appreciated by the bravest and most skilful commanders who have distinguished the British army in India.

The acknowledgements of Lord Minto :

Luna 24 die Maii, 1813.

My Lord,

Fort William, 30th July, 1812.

I had the honour to receive yes

terday your Lordship's letter of the 1st of February, conveying to me the thanks of the

House of Lords on the reduction of the Islands of the Mauritius and Bourbon, and of the Island of Java and its dependencies.

The first effect of their Lordships' resolution, has been to exonerate me from a heavy care, which from the nature of the case, continued, through a long and protracted succession of measures, to weigh upon my conduct.

I have never considered unauthorised applications of the public resources to objects not sanctioned and to enterprizes of great extent and importance, not directed by the highest authorities of the State, as meritorious in themselves: but on the contrary as deviations from the established and wholesome rules of public conduct, for which those who hazard them in their own views of particular emergency are strictly accountable, and which success alone will not always justify.

I enjoyed indeed the early satisfaction of seeing my individual judgment ratified by the orders of His Majesty's ministers issued