He then returned to England, but quickly followed his regiment to Egypt, whence the evacuation being settled, he returned through Turkey with Mr. Hutchinson, a distinguished volunteer also, without military rank, and staid some time at Constantinople and at Paris.

The peace of Amiens returned him, in all simplicity, like Cincinnatus, to rural cares.

His regiment went to the West Indies, whither he did not accompany it, from the understanding that the brevet would preclude him, according to the arrangement of his levy. It did not, however; and, far from impatient, unless of service, he solicited to accompany Sir John Moore to Sweden as Aide-de-camp, where, while his general was occupied in diplomacy, he endeavoured to inform himself topographically of the country. In the same character he accompanied Sir John Moore into Spain, and fought by his side at Corunna.

Major-General, he commanded a division in the expedition to Walcheren; it soon developed itself as no scene for his prowess, and, having caught the fever, he returned to England.

The occasion described in this section was one calculated for him, and he accordingly took the command as Lieutenant-General.

Having performed this duty, he joined Lord Wellington as second in command; but, after being at the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, was obliged, from a disease of the eyes, to return to England. In 1813 he again joined, and took the command of the left wing of the army at Vittoria. He continued through the successive actions, and had the charge of first entering France. Having established hini

self on French ground, his health again compelled him to return to England.

In 1814 he was appointed to command the forces in Holland, with temporary rank of General; and, on the peace, received a peerage as Baron Lynedock, of Balgowan, having before enjoyed the Order of the Bath.

Thus ended the extraordinary career of this son of the war, for such he may literally be deemed, unless in those domestic services which are occasionally called for by the army in its judicial and economical arrangements. His Lordship, no doubt in gratitude for the relief bis mind had sustained in military society, was foremost among the advocates for establishing a military club, on an elegant and economical scale, in London, under the sanction of the Commander-in-Chief, where, in all simplicity, he has frequently mixed with his brothers in arms. Not unmindful, however, of the beloved scenes of his happy retirement, his favored Balgowan, any more than when

“He dream'd, 'mid Alpine cliffs, of Athol's hill,

"And heard in Ebro's roar, his Lynedock's lovely rill."

Lord Lynedock, in his person and in the esteem in which he is held, affords an eminent proof that a military life, even in this advanced period of our state, is in no way incompatible with religion and morality.

From the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Gen. Dilkes, in 1782, passed as Lieutenant to the 103d regiment in Ireland, having three years before obtained an

Ensigncy in the 49th; but, in the succeeding year, purchased an Ensigncy in the Guards, and immediately went Aide-de-camp to General O'Hara, at Gibraltar. In 1790 he became Adjutant of the 3d Foot Guards; 1792, Lieut. and Captain; and, in 1793 embarked, with the first body of troops, for the continent, under General Abercrombie; with the last of which he returned, in 1795, having shared in all the occurrences of the campaign. In 1797, Capt. and Lieut.-Colonel, he served with his regiment in the Irish rebellion; in 1799 he accompanied the expedition to the Helder, and in 1800 returned to Ireland. He afterwards commanded the Guards in London.

In 1810 he commanded the brigade of Guards at Cadiz, and afterwards became second in command on the present occasion.

In 1811 General Dilkes returned with the Guards to England, and was placed on the staff in England; where, to the regret of his superiors at home and abroad, a domestic calamity compelled him to remain.

It were injustice not to add here the following letter, addressed to the General by his Royal Highness the Duke of York, on the subject of this section.

"I take the earliest opportunity in my power of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 9th March, and of thanking you for your obliging attention in communicating to me, thus early, what relates to the distinguished conduct of my gallant old friends-the Guards, under your command in the glorious and severely-contested action of the 5th. While I congratulate you and them on the successful result of an action, in which their

efforts were so conspicuous, and so deserving of the admiration with which all have viewed them, I cannot conceal my deep feelings of regret that it has been attended with so severe and painful a loss of officers and men, which upon this occasion, perhaps, makes a deeper impression upon me, as many of the latter were old soldiers and faithful companions, whose meritorious exertions I have myself witnessed and had occasion to approve upon former occasions.

"I have read, with great satisfaction, in Lieut.-General Graham's dispatch, the high and well-earned encomiums bestowed upon your conduct, and that of the officers and men engaged under your command; and, as a brother Guardsman (a title of which I shall ever be most proud), and Colonel of the corps, I trust I shall not be consi dered as exceeding the limits of my station, in requesting that you will yourself receive, and convey to the brigade under your orders, my sincere and cordial thanks for having so gloriously maintained, and indeed, if possible, raised the high character of a corps, in whose success, collectively and individually, I shall never cease to take the warmest interest."-&c. &c.

PENINSULAR WAR-FOURTH PERIOD - VISCOUNT (afterwards Duke of) WELLINGTON-BATTLE OF ALBUERA, MAY 16th, 1811GENERAL SERVICES OF THE CAMPAIGN-CAPTURE OF CIUDAD RODRIGO, JANUARY 19thBADAJOZ, APRIL 6th, 1812.

The officers included by name in the votes of thanks for these several occasions are, after the COMMANDER IN CHIEF, Sir W. CARR (afterwards Lord) BEResford, and Don JOACHIM BLAKE, commanding the Portuguese and Spanish armies, as follow :