1778, and educated a short time at Eton. He entered the army it is believed as early as 1791, in the 108th regiment, and there became Captain in 1794, Assistant Quarter-Master General to the forces under Gen. Doyle in Lord Moira's expedition; Military Commissioner with the Austrian armies in 1795-6, where heading a charge of cavalry that had been repulsed, he was severely wounded in the face; and Aide-de-camp to Lord Camden in Ireland. He received his majority 106th foot, and was transferred to the fifth dragoons, 1st January 1797, of which he be came last Lieutenant-colonel, since they were withdrawn from Ireland in the heat of the disaffection, and disbanded at Chatham 10th April 1799. With the 18th Dragoons in Holland, which he improved from a skeleton, he was wounded in the head; and a glass at his breast perhaps saved his life. He was appointed Aide-de-camp to the King, and shortly after became under-Secretary of State in the War department. In this civil occupation he married the Lady Catharine Bligh, third daughter of the Earl of Darnley, by whom he has a son named Frederick; he was not, however, to be restrained from war; he commanded the hussar brigade in the Peninsula under Sir J. Moore, and highly distinguished himself. In a charge in which he captured the French general Lefebvre, his sword was struck from his hand by a musket ball, on which he seized that of Colonel, now Sir Loftus Otway, an officer too soon estranged from active service. Brigadier-General Stewart afterwards served as Adjutant-General with Lord Wellington's army; and sharing in the glorious close of that war, was created first a Knight of the Bath, and afterwards created a Baron, appointed a Lord of the King's Bedchamber, and employed as Ambassador to Vienna; where he has continued to maintain with the greatest dignity the functions of the diplomatic character. Others are either already, or will be hereafter noticed. General Colville, who was on the Staff on the present occasion, had served latterly chiefly in the West Indies, and previously in the various operations of the war; having been appointed to the 28th regiment in 1781, which he joined six years after; and got the Colonelcy of the 5th garrison battalion in 1812, with the rank of Major General; and subsequently the order of the Bath. Major-General Crawford here received his mortal wound, and Major-General Vandeleur, one that checked for a short time his career of glory. To the former the tribute of well-directed experience must be generally given. The latter lived to receive the honor of knighthood and the gratitude of his country. Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur entered the army just at the close of the American war, and consequently was fortunate to arrive at a company even the year before that which succeeded, 1792, and either India witnessed his services till 1811, when Major-General he augmented the staff of the army in Spain. There he continued till the peace, when he had the honor of leading a division of the cavalry of that army through France to Calais on its return. Thence he removed to the army in Flanders with the Order of the Bath. PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS,-LAST PERIOD; under MARQUIS (afterwards Duke of) WELLINGTON.— BATTLES of SALAMANCA, April 22d, 1812; VITTORIA, June 21st, 1813; PYRENEES, July 25th, and August 2d, 1813; SIEGE and CAPTURE of ST. SEBASTIAN'S, August 31st, 1813; Battle of ORTHES, February 27th, 1814; and OCCUPATION of BOURDEAUX, March 12th, 1814. The following general officers were included in the vote of thanks for the several actions above mentioned : SALAMANCA. Lt.-Gen. Sir Staple. Cotton M.-Gen. Chas. Baron Alten James Leith G. Lowry Cole M.-Gen. Henry Clinton John Hope George Anson William Anson J. O. Vandeleur J. H. C. de Bennewitz |