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Maj. 61st foot, 13th June following; and brev. L.-Col. 19th May, 1814: he is now on the half-pay of the 61st foot.

1387. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

THOMAS WILLIAM BROTHERTON, C. B.

ENSIGN 2d foot guards, 24th Jan. 1800; Lieut. and Capt. 17th July, 1801; Lieut. and Capt. 3d foot guards, 3d Dec. 1803; Capt. 14th dragoons, 4th June, 1807; Maj. 26th March, 1812; and brevet L.-Col. 19th May, 1814. Served in Spain and Portugal, and is a Companion of the Bath.

1388. LIEUT.-COLONEL THOMAS LIGHTFOOT, C. B. ENSIGN 5th foot in 1799; Lieut. 14th March, 1800; Lieut. 39th foot, 9th July, 1803; Capt. 45th foot, 15th Dec. 1804; brevet Maj. 21st June, 1813; Maj. 45th foot, 7th Oct. 1814; and brevet L.-Col. 19th May, 1814. This officer served in Holland under the command of H. R. H. the Duke of York. In 1800, he accompanied the 5th foot to Gibraltar, where he remained till 1802, and was reduced with the 2d batt. on the return of the reg. to England. In 1803, he was replaced on full pay in the 39th reg. on the re-commencement of the war, and in 1804 was promoted into the 45th reg. and accompanied that reg. in the expedition to Portugal, in 1808, and was present in the battles of Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, and Busaco. In 1811, he commanded the light company of the reg. and was in the affairs of Pombal, Ramaliel and Condiexa, Fez d'Aroz, Sabugal, and the battle of Fuentes d'Onor. He served at the siege of Badajos in 1811, and in that of Roderigo in 1812, where he stormed, at the head of the light and grenadier companies of the 3d division, the great breach, the storming party consisting of the flank companies of the 45th, 74th, and 88th regs. He was in the siege of Badajos in 1812, and stormed Fort Piccarini, under the direction of M.-Gen. Kempt, and was slightly wounded. He stormed the castle of Badajos, at the head of the flank companies of the 3d division, consisting as before, and was again slightly wounded. He was in the battle of Salamanca, in the successful attack on the left flank of the enemy, which was made by the 3d division, under

M.-Gen. Pakenham. He commanded the light companies of the right brigade of the 3d division, in the battle of Vittoria. He commanded the 45th reg. in the battle of the Pyrenees, and was second in command of it in the attack of the French fortified position of St. Jean de Luz in France, and also in the affair near Bastide in 1814: he was second in command of the 45th reg. in the battle of Orthes, and at the battle of Toulouse, where he was severely wounded. L.-Col. F. was reduced with the 2d batt. in Dec. of that year: he passed the years 1815, 1816, 1817, at the Military College, and in 1818 was appointed Assist.-Quar.-Mast.-Gen. in Canada: he has received a medal and two clasps for the battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, and Toulouse.

1389. LIEUT.-COL. ADOLPHUS JOHN DALRYMPLE, M. P. ENSIGN 55th foot, 25th Oct. 1799; Lieut. 37th foot, 12th June, 1800; Lieut. 1st dragoon guards, 5th Feb. 1801; Capt. 18th dragoons, 7th Jan. 1808; brevet Maj. 15th Sept. 1808; Maj. 19th dragoons, 17th Nov. following; and L.-Col. 60th foot, 1st June, 1814; he is now on the half-pay of the 2d Garr. Batt. L.-Col. D. served as Military Secretary to Sir Hew Dalrymple in Portugal.

1390. LIEUT.-COLONEL JAMES HENRY REYNETT. APPOINTED in 1799 Ensigu 52d foot; Lieut. 14th March, 1800; Capt. 24th March, 1804; Maj. 8th April, 1813; and brev. L.-Col. 1st June, 1814: he is now on the half-pay of the 52d foot. This officer served on the staff of the Quar.Mast.-Gen.'s Department, under Sir J. Moore and the Duke of Wellington in Spain and Portugal, from 1808 to 1811; and as Dep. Quar.-Mast.-Gen. in Germany in 1813 and 1814: he is at present serving as Military Secretary to H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge in Hanover, and Inspector of the Foreign Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital.

1391. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS AIRD. APPOINTED Cornet in the 2d drag. 20th Aug. 1794; Lieut. in 1799; Capt. in the RI. Wagg. Train, 2d May, 1800; Maj.

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27th Oct. 1808; brevet L.-Col. 2d June, 1814; and L.-Col. in the R' Waggon Train, 4th May, 1815. This officer served under the Duke of York on the Continent, in 1793, 4, 5; in the expedition to Hanover in 1805; in Spain and in Flanders, and was present at the battle of Waterloo.

1392. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS BARROW. ENSIGN 2d foot guards, 12th Aug. 1803; Lieut. and Capt. 25th Dec. 1806; brevet Maj. 21st Sept. 1813; and Capt. and L.-Col. 2d foot guards, 2d June, 1814.

1393. LIEUT.-COLONEL ROBERT EARL OF ATHLONE. His Lordship was Maj. in the army, 28th Jan. 1808; and L.-Col. 4th June, 1814: he is on the half-pay of the 95th foot.

1394. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM SMELT.

CORNET 4th dragoons in 1797; Lieut. 11th Dec. 1799; Capt. 21st March, 1805; Maj. 9th Garrison Batt. 28th Jan. 1808; Maj. 103d foot, 20th Sept. 1808; brevet L.-Col. 4th June, 1814; L.-Col. 103d foot, 24th Nov. 1814; L.-Col. R' York Rangers, 31st July, 1817; placed on half-pay at the reduction of that corps in Dec. 1818; and appointed L.-Col. 53d foot, in March, 1820.

1395. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES NEWHOUSE. FIRST Lieut. R' Artillery, 1st July, 1791; Capt.-Lieut. 26th Jan. 1796; Capt. 14th Oct. 1801; Maj. R1 Invalid Artillery, retired on full pay, 1st Feb. 1808; and brevet L.-Col. 4th June, 1814. This officer, in Oct. 1793, sailed from Gibraltar with a small corps under Gen. O'Hara, and landed at Toulon early in the November following; he was stationed to the eastward of that town, in a fort at Cape Brune, and commanded the British and Neapolitan artillery there, until the afternoon of the 19th Dec. when he received orders to spike all the guns, and destroy every thing within his grasp, and retire with his people into Fort La Malgue; there to take command of the detachment of artillery of the rear guard, preR. M. Cal.

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paratory to the general evacuation of the allied troops, which was determined for that night. The evacuation was effected in the course of the night, and the rear-guard got off about eight in the morning. The fleet sailed direct for Hieres Bay, where it anchored, and rode about a month, waiting instructions from home. In this interval, some of the regs. were put on shore, and cantoned in the old castles and out-buildings of the islands; and this officer speedily followed, with orders from the Commander of the Forces, to destroy the cannon, magazines, &c. which the enemy had abandoned. This being effected, the troops repaired on board, and shortly after sailed for Elba. Here they were occupied in equipping field artillery, and making arrangements for a descent upon Corsica; those arrangements assigned to this officer the command of the field guns attached to the advanced corps under L.-Col. the late Sir J. Moore. The troops landed in the afternoon of the 7th Feb. 1794, and in the course of the operations carried on to extirpate the French, after San Fiorenzo and Bastia were taken, they went before Calvi, where this officer with two field-pieces, covered the approach of the troops in the general attack upon the enemy's out-works; for this service he was mentioned in the General's (the late Sir C. Stewart's) despatches. Shortly after the surrender of Calvi, he was appointed to take command of the detachment of artillery, to act with a small corps of about 500 men against the isle of Capraja; he embarked on board Commodore Nelson's ship; reached the island in a few hours; landed and got possession of the garrison without firing a shot. He returned to Corsica, and in a few months the army proceeded again to Elba; and speedily afterwards out of the Mediterranean. This officer returned to England, and was employed on the coast till the expedition under Gen. Abercromby took place; he served with the troops throughout the campaign, and remained behind with the regs. under Lord Cavan, after the termination of the expedition; he served as Captain in Egypt: in 1807, he went out to Copenhagen, and landed in command of the artillery, attached to the reserve under the Duke of Wellington; he held this command throughout the affair against Copenhagen, and was mentioned

in "Reserve Orders;" and subsequently in the Duke's public despatches, for the performance of services against the town of Kioge, where he covered the advance of the troops in their attack. The expedition being over, he returned to the Kentish coast, where he has since been employed in constant home duties.

1396. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES THOMPSON. LIEUT. 27th foot, 13th Sept. 1795; Capt. 21st May, 1800; Maj. 25th Feb. 1808; and brevet L.-Col. 4th June, 1814. Served in Spain, Portugal, and France.

1397. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROGER PARKE. THIS officer was appointed, 30th June, 1795, Ensign in the 113th foot, which reg. was drafted in the course of that year; and 1st Oct. 1795, promoted Lieut. in the 39th, which reg. was then encamped at Spike Island, in Cork Harbour, where an expedition was preparing to embark for the West Indies. This officer sailed with his reg. and reached Barbadoes in March, 1796, where was collected a large armament under Sir R. Abercromby, destined to attack the French and Dutch settlements; an expedition sailed 1st April, under Maj.-Gen. White, composed of the 39th, 93d, and 99th regs. and artillery, with a considerable naval force. After effecting a landing, the colonies of Demerara and Berbice surrendered by capitulation; the 39th reg. remained in those colonies five years, when it was removed to Surinam in Oct. 1800; on the 9th of that month, this officer was appointed to a company in his reg. by purchase; he remained two years with it at Surinam, when peace being concluded, the Dutch Colonies were restored. The 39th reg., after seven years West India service, was ordered to England; it arrived at Portsmouth in April, 1803. After two years this officer embarked with it in the spring of 1805, for the Mediterranean, and arrived at Malta with many other regs., under the command of Sir J. Craig, who was to occupy the kingdom of Naples, in co-operation with a Russian and Neapolitan force; the British were on the frontier touching the Roman states, when the Russian force was withdrawn, in consequence