particularly when the interests of humanity required that the lives of deluded slaves should be protected from the punishments due to their crimes, into which mischievous persons had seduced them.

(Signed)

"EDWARD CODD, Colonel.

"His Honor John Spooner, President of the Council.”

586. MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT SEWELL.

THIS officer was appointed Ensign in the 51st foot the 30th of September, 1795; Lieutenant in the same corps the 2nd of June, 1796; Captain in the 62nd foot the 4th of October, 1797; Major in the 60th foot the 16th of June, 1803; Major in the 48th foot the 24th of November, 1803; Lieutenant-Colonel in the army the 26th of October, 1804; Lieutenant-Colonel in the 89th foot the 3rd of May, 1810; Colonel in the army the 4th of June, 1813; and Major-General the 12th of August, 1819. He served at Malta as Deputy Adjutant-General.

Major-General Sewell retains bis regimental commission in the 89th foot.

587. MAJOR-GENERAL

CHARLES AMEDEE HARCOURT, C.B.

THIS officer joined as a volunteer the British army serving in Flanders in 1793; he was present at most of the engagements that took place in the course of that campaign, particularly at the battles of Paperon, Wormhoot, and Hondshotte, and at the termination of which the Duke of York was pleased to direct that he should be considered as Aid-de-Camp to Major-General (now Lord) Harcourt, and receive field allowance accordingly. After one year's service as a volunteer, he was appointed to a troop in the Salm hussars, raised by himself; and on the opening of the campaign of 1794 resumed his former situation with LieutenantGeneral Harcourt. He was at the battle of Cateau, took several pieces of cannon from the enemy at the actions before Tournay on the 10th of May; which service the Duke of York * was pleased to notice and reward with the present of a sword. He was engaged at the battles fought on the 17th and 21st of

May, and at several actions that took place from that period to the evacuation of Holland. Having been permitted to enter a regiment of the line, he resigned his troop, and purchased an Ensigncy in the 127th regiment, then raising by Colonel Craddock, the 11th of December, 1794; a Lieutenancy in the 99th foot the 20th of the same month; and a Lieutenancy in the 16th light dragoons the 7th of April, 1795. On the embarkation of the troops under Lieutenant-General Dundas, a Board having been appointed to investigate the claims against the British army during its passage through friendly countries, this officer remained at Bremen to assist Colonel Don in the execution of his duties as President of the Board, and on this service he continued two years. In 1798 he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to MajorGeneral Don, then commanding in the Isle of Wight. In 1799 he was sent with that officer, and confidentially employed by him in negotiations leading to a co-operation on the part of the inhabitants of Holland, previous to the intended attack on that country by the British army. Having returned to England, and joined the army encamped on Barham Downs, he again attended Major-General Don, and was present at all the actions fought in North Holland. On the 3rd of October he took possession (with a few of the 18th dragoons) of Alkmaar; attacked and took prisoners a strong picquet, covering the enemy's retreat; and kept possession of that place several hours before a reinforcement came up to his support.

The 22nd of October, 1799, he was appointed to a company in the 20th foot, and on the return of the army to England, obtained leave to accompany Sir Home Popham to Russia. He returned to England in July, 1800, and resumed his former situation with General Don. In June, 1801, he embarked for the Mediterranean, and joined the 20th regiment at Malta, and was appointed Aid-de-Camp to the late General Fox. In August, 1802, he obtained leave to return to England to negotiate promotion, and was appointed the 25th of September, 1802, to a Majority on the half-pay of the 40th foot. In the beginning of the present war he was appointed permanent Assistant Quarter-Master-General in Ireland, and was employed in

carrying on an extensive military survey in various parts of that kingdom. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel the 1st of November, 1804; and continued in Ireland until May, 1809, when he was appointed Deputy Quarter-Master-General at the Cape of Good Hope. He served with the 40th foot in Spain, and was present at the siege of Badajos, for which he has the honor of wearing a medal. The 4th of June, 1813, he received the rank of Colonel in the army; and the 12th of August, 1819, that of Major-General. This officer is a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

588. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE HILL.

THIS officer was appointed, the 4th of April, 1794, Ensign in the 3rd guards: he joined the army in Holland in December following, and was in the retreat through Germany. He returned to England in May, 1795; and the 9th of February, 1797, obtained a Lieutenancy in his regiment. He served in the expedition to the Helder in 1799, and was present in the actions of the 27th of August, the 11th and 19th of September, the 2nd and 6th of October. He was promoted to a company, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, the 8th of November, 1804. In 1809 he joined the army at Lisbon, and was in the following actions in the Peninsula: passage of the Douro, affair at Salamanca, battle of Talavera, and slightly wounded at the battle of Busaco, retreat to Torres Vedras, and subsequent pursuit of Massena. The 5th of May, 1811, he was wounded and made prisoner by the enemy, while commanding the advanced picquets of the brigade of guards at Fuentes d'Onor. He remained prisoner of war three years, and was liberated by the capture of Paris in 1814. The 4th of June, 1813, he received the brevet of Colonel, and was appointed to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 3rd guards, by the removal of the General Officers, the 25th of July, 1814; and the 12th of August, 1819, obtained the rank of Major-General. He retains his regimental commission in the 3rd foot guards.

589. MAJOR-GENERAL SAMUEL SWINTON.

THIS officer entered the service the 10th of May, 1780, as an Ensign in the 50th foot, and in 1788 went to Gibraltar, where he remained until appointed Lieutenant and Adjutant to the 74th foot on the 25th of December, 1787; he embarked for the East Indies in 1789, and was present at the battle of Seringapatam, the 15th of May, 1790; the sieges of Seringapatam, Bangalore, and other forts in the Mysore, in the campaigns of 1791 and 1792, under the Marquess Cornwallis. The 23rd of May, 1792, he was appointed Captain-Lieutenant in the 74th foot, and in 1793 commanded the light infantry company at the siege and capture of Pondicherry. In the year 1797 he embarked with the regiment on the expedition against Manilla, but which from circumstances did not go on. He was promoted to a company in 1798, and took the field in 1803, and served the whole of the campaigns, and was present in all the actions, and at all the captures of the different places under the Duke of Wellington, in the years 1803 and 1804. He was promoted. to the Majority of the 74th foot the 17th of May, 1800, and commanded that corps in the above-mentioned campaigns, and at the battle of Assaye, where he was severely wounded; also at the battle of Argaum, where the regiment particularly distinguished itself, and was publicly thanked in orders by the Duke of Wellington. He returned with the 74th from India in 1806, but had been previously appointed, the 14th of November, 1804, Lieutenant-Colonel in the York Rangers. On his arrival in England, he found himself appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the 74th foot, with which regiment he embarked for Jersey in 1801, and in the same year went with it to Sicily, and afterwards to Corfu. He received the brevet of Colonel the 4th of June, 1813. On the peace in 1814, being in a bad state of health, he returned to England; and in October, 1815, retired on half-pay, finding his constitution unequal to the fatigue of service. The 12th of August, 1819, he was promoted to the rank of MajorGeneral.

590. MAJOR-GENERAL

JOHN MONTAGU MAINWARING.

ENSIGN, by purchase, in the 67th regiment, May, 1794; Lieutenant in same regiment November, 1789; appointed Captain of the troop of Black Dragoons serving in Grenada, October, 1792; and on the commencement of hostilities with the French in 1793, commanded the Black Corps (of which the troop formed a part) in the first expedition against Martinique, and continued on service in the West Indies, till after the capture of the French Islands; returned to England, and rejoined the 67th regiment then serving in Jersey. His rank in the Black Corps having been stated to have been only local, during his first services in the West Indies, viz. from 1785, to 1794, he for some time acted as Adjutant to the 67th regiment, and in consequence of the recommendations he received for his zeal and attention in the performance of that duty, he was appointed by Major-General Matthew, then Commander of the Forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands, Captain of the Port, at Fort St. George in the Island of Grenada, and which, a post of considerable emolument, he gave up, to accompany the Black Corps on service. Appointed Captain-Lieutenant, and Captain of a Company in the 67th regiment, 1794; Paymaster, by appointment of the Field Officers and Captains, in 1795; and served as Deputy Judge Advocate at Plymouth the same year, which latter appointment though offered to be confirmed to him for the Western District, he resigned, his regiment having been named for service in St. Domingo; embarked for Cork, and on arrival there, the expedition not being ready was encamped at Spike Island, where from his exertions, and consequent fatigue, his health became so impaired, that on embarkation in December, 1795, he was taken dangerously ill, and ruptured a blood vessel, and was again disembarked at Spike Island, a short time before the expedition sailed; on his recovery to a state of convalescence, he took the command of a recruiting party in England, and continued on that duty till the summer of 1799, when he went to Chatham, and from thence in the command of the East and West India detachmen to Hilsea, from whence he embarked in January, 1800,