troops as marines, to the Mediterranean, where he was very active till 1795, when progressively he became Lieutenant Colonel of the 88th Regiment.

In 1799, he sailed for the East Indies and passed under Sir D. Baird through the Desart of Egypt. He remained commandant of Alexandria till the evacuation. In 1800, he became Colonel in the army, and served in the Irish Rebellion.

In 1805, he visited the Cape of Good Hope, and proceeded to Buenos Ayres, where after some success he was made prisoner for six months; and on escaping in 1807 received in England the Colonelcy of one of the finest regiments in the service, the 88th.

Succeeding in a conjunct expedition to Madeira, he became Governor there till August 1808; when ordered to Portugal he arrived in a few days after the battle of Vimiera, in sufficient time to conduct the proceedings of the convention of Cintra. He shared in Sir John Moore's retreat, and afterwards returned to the command of the Portuguese troops. Lieutenant General he remained generally active throughout the whole war, till he received some extraordinary honors: and with the whole control of the Portuguese troops, continued his services in Spain, till on the 12th March he entered Bourdeaux with acclamation.

Since the peace, after which he received a peerage, as Baron Beresford of Albuera, his lordship may be considered as abstracted entirely from the British service to that of Portugal. He here evinced very great political energy, and the result was a conspiracy supposed to have been directed against his life.

Of the Spanish General Blake it may briefly be said, that like all in a similar service, he was highly blamed and praised. But this is evident, that he fought well on the present occasion, and that he afterwards died in the service of his country.

The Honourable Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, son of the Earl of Inneskillen, commenced his recognized service as Lieutenant Colonel in Ward's foot 1794, which five years after he changed to the same rank in that of General Villette's, and thence continued till he joined Lord Wellington's army in the peninsula, in which he enjoyed a due share in all his Lordship's campaigns. In 1811 he received the local rank of Lieutenant General, and has since commanded a brigade in the Anglo-Gallic army of occupation.

Sir William Lumley, 8th son of Richard, fourth Earl of Scarborough, and Barbara, sister of Sir George Saville, Bart. was born on the 28th of August 1769. He entered the army in the 10th Light Dragoons; in 1787 he became Captain; in 1794, Aid de Camp to Earl Fitzwilliam, Viceroy of Ireland; he obtained a Majority and subsequently the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the 20th Dragoons antedated to 1795.

In 1798, he was in the affair of Antrim when Lord O'Neil fell, and had the honor to preserve the lives of the

other magistrates of the town from the violence of the rebels with a severe wound through the ancle. To this service Egypt succeeded; and that of the staff of the London district on the renewal of war,

Sir William married in 1804 the daughter of Thomas Sutherland, of Ulverstone, Esq..

The Cape of Good Hope and South America afforded him occasions of distinction. In 1808 he returned to the Mediterranean, was on the Staff in Sicily, and commanded the light brigade against Istria, In 1809 he returned to England, became Major General; was appointed to the Colonelcy of the West India Rangers, and created Knight of the Bath. On the 4th June 1814 Sir William received the brevet of Lieutenant General.

The DEFENCE of PORTUGAL, that interesting military topic, the theory of which has employed so many military pens,' having here been practically executed, becomes the next object of the present section,

' Exclusive of those of the French General Dumourier, and our own Colonel Elliot, of the Artillery, which are in every one's remembrance.

With peculiar and most appropriate delicacy also at this period of the war, when public opinion became considerably influenced against it, was the Vote of Thanks ordered generally for the campaign.

On the 26th of April, 1811, it was resolved

That the Thanks of this House be given to Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington, for the consummate ability, fortitude and perseverance displayed by him in the command of the British and Portuguese forces, by which the Kingdom of Portugal has been successfully defended, and the most signal and important services rendered to his King and country.

That this House doth highly approve of, and acknowledge the eminent and meritorious services uniformly performed by the general officers, officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the British army,

under the command of Lieutenant-General Lord Viscount Wellington, during the late arduous and memorable operations in Portugal, by which additional lustre has been reflected on the reputation of the British

arms.

That this House doth highly acknowledge the zeal, discipline and intrepidity, so conspicuously displayed by the general officers, officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers of the Portuguese army under the immediate command of Field Marshal Sir William Beresford, which have essentially contributed to the successful result of the late military operations.

To its communication Lord Wellington thus replied:

Martis 18 die Junii, 1811.

My Lord,

Elvas, 25th May 1811.

I have had the honour of receiving your Lordship's letter of the 29th of April, in which your Lordship enclosed the