unsubdued; and, though retreating in much disorder, the enemy's advanced guard never approached them without being repulsed. Moore himself, being constantly with the rear of his troops, was invariably present whenever a shot was fired, or the French came in sight.

At length, the British reached the hills behind Corunna; where, on account of the transports destined to receive them not having yet arrived, they remained for three days. On the 14th of January, 1809, the sick, cavalry, and part of the artillery, were em. barked: on the following day, the enemy slightly attacked their outposts; and, on the 16th, a general engagement took place. The British, in this battle, amounted to little more than a third of the enemy's number; they were greatly reduced in strength by a fatiguing retreat, during which they had experienced the most dreadful privations; yet they encountered the French with an intrepidity that has never been surpassed. Their right wing was first attacked, but without success; the enemy then attempted to take them in flank, but Moore charged and repulsed them, at the head of the forty-second, exclaiming, as he advanced, Highlanders, remember Egypt!" Soon afterwards, a cannonball shattered his left shoulder, and beat him to the ground. Some of his attendants immediately attempted to unbuckle the sword from his wounded side; but he resisted their well-meant endeavours, observing, that he had rather his weapon should go out of the field with him.

The battle continued until dusk, when the enemy gave way at all points, and the British embarked without molestation. Moore was carried to Corunna; where, on hearing of the victory, he exclaimed, "I hope the people of England will do me justice; I hope my country will be satisfied!" Shortly before his death, which took place on the same evening, he observed to Colonel Anderson: "You know, sir, that I always wished to die in this manner." A grave was hastily dug for him, at midnight, by his troops, in a

bastion of the citadel; where, in the true, but poetical language of his monodist, No useless coffin inclosed his breast,

Nor in sheet, or in shroud they wound him;
He lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.

Sir John Moore died unmarried. In person, he was tall and graceful; and his features, until worn by service, were particularly handsome. He possessed strong natural eloquence, great conversational powers, and that smartness of reply which often passes for wit. As a soldier, his conduct procured him the admiration and respect of some of his most distinguished cotemporaries. Pitt solicited his friendship, and was often guided by his advice on military subjects: Fox told him, when his appointment to the chief command in India was suggested, "that he could not give his assent, in the state in which Europe then was, to send to such a distance, a general in whom he had such entire confidence:" Napoleon said, that "his talents and firmness alone saved the British army from destruction; he was a brave soldier, an excellent officer, and a man of talent; he made a few mistakes, which were, probably, inseparable from the difficulties with which he was surrounded, and caused, perhaps, by his information having misled him :" Wellington declared, that he "saw but one error in Sir John Moore's campaign:" and Soult described him, as "taking every advantage that the country afforded, to oppose an active and vigorous resistance."

Within a fortnight after his death, a high eulogium was passed on his conduct, in general orders to the army. A monument was erected to his memory in St. Paul's, and another at Glasgow. On the spot where he fell, a commemoration stone was placed, by Soult, to testify the high respect with which he was regarded by his enemies; and a pillar was afterwards raised at Elvina, according to the terms of its inscription, "by the gratitude of Spain, to the glory of the English general, Moore, and his valiant countrymen, in memory of the action of the 16th of January, 1809."

HENRY WILLIAM, eldest son of the Earl of Uxbridge, was born on the 17th of May, 1768; and received his education at Westminster School, and Christchurch, Oxford. In 1793, he was appointed to the command of a regiment, which he had raised at his own expense, among his father's tenantry, in Staffordshire; in the following year he served under the Duke of York, in Flanders; and again, in the expedition to Holland, in 1799.

On the 10th of December, 1808, being then a major-general, he joined Sir John Moore, in the peninsula; and shortly after, at the head of only four hundred men, routed a detachment of the French army, amounting to nine hundred, of whom, he made two hundred prisoners. At Mayaga, he again defeated the enemy, with an inferior force; and at Benevento, in the presence, it is said, of Napoleon, repulsed the French advanced guard, took General Lefebre, and so successfully covered the retreat of the English, that they were not molested again up to their arrival at Corunna. At the battle fought near that place, on the 16th of January, 1809, Lord Paget, when the rifle corps were about retreating, brought up the reserve to strengthen the right wing, and attacked the enemy so vigorously, that the British remained masters of the field, and embarked, a few hours afterwards, without opposition.

Shortly after his return from the continent, a verdict was obtained against Lord Paget, with £20,000 damages, in an action for criminal conversation with Lady Charlotte Wellesley, a daughter of the Earl of Cadogan, and wife of the Honourable Henry Wellesley, brother to the hero of the peninsula. It is creditable to his lordship, that on the trial of the cause, he instructed his counsel to abstain from all observations tending to justify his conduct; and also to declare that he was not solicitous about the mitigation of damages, if it could be supposed that any sum a jury might give, would really compensate the plaintiff for the deep wrongs he had sustained.

At this period he was a married man, having been united to a daughter of the Earl of Jersey, in 1795, by whom he had eight children. Lady Paget subsequently obtained a dissolution of the marriage according to the laws of Scotland; and was united to the Duke of Argyle, in 1819. A fortnight after the trial, a hostile meeting took place between Lord Paget and Captain Cadogan, Lady Wellesley's brother, but his lordship having stated, on the ground, that "nothing could ever induce him to add to the injuries he had already done the family, by firing at the brother of Lady Charlotte Wellesley," the seconds were of opinion that the affair could not proceed further, and the parties separated. Lord Paget and Lady Charlotte subsequently became man and wife, and had a family.

From 1806 to 1812, he had represented Milbourne Port; but, in the latter year, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the earldom of Uxbridge, and took his seat in the house of peers. In the spring of 1815, he commanded the troops assembled in London to quell the corn bill riots; and soon after the return of Napoleon from Elba, he was placed at the head of the British cavalry in Flanders.

At the battle of Waterloo, he behaved with astonishing gallantry. On one occasion, being in the rear of his troops, he rode back alone, towards a regiment of cuirassiers, which he perceived forming for a charge, on the road behind him. Although, on gallopping off, he had waved his hat for his men to attack, no one had followed him, except Colonel Kelly, of the horse-guards. This gallant officer remained with him, for more than a minute, close in front of the French, who, with great humanity, refrained from despatching them. The British cavalry, excited at length by the daring behaviour of their commander, came on to the charge. They had never before engaged the cuirassiers, for whom, on account of "the armour," worn by the latter, they appear to have deemed themselves an unequal match, but the result of this encounter proved

that their apprehensions were groundless. The French, unable to withstand the shock of their attack, fell back in confusion, "and then," to use an expression of one of the guards, "the British had only to ride with them and work away."

After having already charged on two occasions, Lord Uxbridge headed a terrific attack on nine thousand of the enemy, of whom three thousand were taken prisoners, and nearly the whole of the residue slain. The battle had nearly closed, when a ball from a field piece struck him on the leg, which was subsequently amputated, and deposited in a garden at the village of Waterloo.

Five days after the battle, the earl was created Marquess of Anglesea: he also obtained, for his eminent services, grand crosses of the Bath, and the Guelphic order; various honours from foreign princes; and eventually became a knight of the Garter. In passing through Lichfield, on his return to England, the corporation of that city presented him with a splendid sword; and, some time afterwards, a noble column was erected in North Wales to commemorate his achievements, by the inhabitants of the principality.

his predecessors. In December, 1828, Dr. Curtis, the Roman catholic primate of Ireland, having transmitted him a copy of a letter recently written to that prelate, by the Duke of Wellington, the marquess returned an answer, in which he avowed opinions with regard to catholic emancipation, differing materially from those expressed in his grace's communication to the primate. Immediately afterwards, it was officially announced that the marquess had ceased to be lord-lieutenant, and he took his departure from Dublin, on the 19th of January, 1829, amid the strongest expressions of public regret. The shops were closed, as if a national calamity had occurred, and he was escorted to the place of embarkation by thousands of all classes. On his return to England, he took an early opportunity of declaring in the house of lords, that emancipation was the only panacea for Ireland; and subsequently, when the relief bill was in progress, he said,

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Suppose this bill passed next week, and that war should be declared the day after, there would not be the least difficulty in raising fifty thousand ablebodied men, in the course of six weeks, in Ireland, ready to march to any point in which their services might be required. The passing of this bill would be worth more to the British empire than one hundred thousand

men."

In April, 1827, during the premiership of Canning, he was made mastergeneral of the ordnance; and in February, 1828, the Wellington cabinet intrusted him with the vicegerency of Ireland. A few years before, he had, in parliament, hinted at the feasibility of quelling the disturbances there, by sending hussars, to gallop sword in hand through the country; and it was feared that his conduct, as lord-lieutenant, would be arbitrary and unconciliating. The reverse, however, was the fact; he attached himself to no party, and, regarding in his administration neither persons nor politics, acquired, perhaps, more popularity than any of

After the measure had been carried, he entered into a vindication of his conduct while viceroy, and in justification of his letter to the catholic primate,

offence to his majesty, led, as I have been told, to my recal." His removal was, apparently, a necessary sacrifice to the expediency of the moment, government not being then fully prepared, or perhaps, not fully determined, to bring forward the catholic claims as a ministerial measure; and his conduct while in office was so satisfactory, that his restoration to the vicegerency speedily followed his removal.

The career of the Marquess of Anglesea has been so chivalrous and romantic, as almost to dazzle the sober biographer. While lord-lieutenant of Ireland, he was enthusiastically beloved; in the field he has been a " preux chevalier," decidedly sans peur," but,