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Your Majesty had confided to me, and which every principle of military duty, as well as the direct tenor of my instructions, alike forbad.

"In this state of things, I considered that there was left me no alternative, but to pursue the course I have already stated for Your Majesty's information in my dispatch of the 29th of August; and that conduct I now most humbly, but at the same time with perfect confidence, submit to Your Majesty's judg

"I shall here close this report, which has I fear already detained Your Majesty but too long, by observing that wherever it has been necessary for me to advert to the disappointments experienced, through the arrangements of the admiral, in the naval co-operation I had been taught to expect, I have confined myself to stating the facts, abstaining, as it became me, from all comment, and leaving it to the admiral, in such report as he may make of his proceedings, to bring under Your Majesty's view the circumstances which may have occasioned them, and above all, to account for the difficulties which prevented the Investment of Flushing, (a point never even doubted of before) as well as to show the obstacles which presented themselves to the early progress of the armament up the West Scheldt, which operation I had always looked upon as the primary object of his instructions, and on the accomplishment of which our best hopes of success in any of the ulterior objects of the expedition principally, if not wholly, depended.

(Signed)

"October 15th, 1809."

"CHATHAM, Lieutenant-General."

48. GENERAL ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.

THIS officer entered the service as an ensign in the 42d regiment, in April 1769, which he joined in Ireland; he obtained a Lieutenancy in the 2d Battalion Royals in the end of the year 1770, which regiment he joined in Minorca ; a company in the 50th regiment (which he never joined) in August, 1772; and a company in the 62d regiment, in the month of September of the same year. He joined the latter regiment in Ireland, and embarked with it for Canada, where he served as Captain

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of light infantry under General Carleton in the campaign of 1776, and that of 1777 under General Burgoyne. After the surrender of the army at Saratoga, in the end of the year 1777, this officer having procured a Majority in the 74th foot, dated 26th December of that year, obtained an exchange from the Americans, and repairing to New York, was appointed to serve as Major to the 1st Battalion of light infantry, in which situation he continued two campaigns, and at the end of the war commanded at Penobscot, after which he joined the 62d, in which he received a Lieutenant-Colonelcy the 31st of December, 1782. He remained with his regiment in Scotland and in Ireland until 1789, when he exchanged into the 3d guards, in which he served, as Captain of Light Infantry, the campaign of 1793, and part of 1794, under the Duke of York; but having got the rank of Colonel on the 12th of October, 1793, and having raised the 116th regiment in 1794, he first served as Brigadier-General, and afterwards as Major-General on the Staff of what was called Lord Moira's army, (the date of the last commission the 26th of February, 1795.) He served in the West Indies under Sir Ralph Abercromby, in the year 1796, and on the 10th November of the same year was appointed Colonel of the 7th West India Regiment. After which he served on the Staff at Newcastle, (1797,) in Ireland in 1798, and subsequently in Scotland. In 1802, for the first time, he was on half-pay; but having received the rank of LieutenantGeneral the 29th of April, 1802, he was placed on the Staf in Ireland and Scotland for five years. He was appointed Colonel of the 13th foot the 11th of July, 1804; General 1st of January, 1812; and Colonel of the 32d foot the 15th of February, 1813.

49. GENERAL WILLIAM MORSHEAD.

THE 23d of April 1771, this officer received an ensigncy in the Coldstream guards; in which he was appointed Lieutenant and Captain 8th of February, 1776; Captain and LieutenantColonel, 5th of February, 1783; Aid-de-Camp to the King, and Colonel in the army, 20th of October, 1798; Major-General the 26th of February, 1795; the Colonelcy of his present re

giment, the 51st Light-Infantry, the 9th of May, 1800; and the brevet of Lieutenant-General the 29th of April, 1802; and that of General the 1st of January, 1812.

In February, 1793 he embarked with the troops for Holland, and was in every action in which the guards were engaged from that period till the return of the army, in May, 1795, with the exception of the affair at Lincelles. In October, 1795, he embarked for the West Indies, under Sir Ralph Abercromby; was at the taking of St. Lucie, and commanded the storming party at the Vigie, in the island of St. Vincent's; was second in command under Sir Ralph at Porto Rico, and returned to England for the recovery of his health in 1798. In 1800 he went under Sir James Pulteney, in the expedition to Ferrol; since which he has not been employed on foreign service. In 1801 and 1802 he was on the Staff in Cornwall.

50. GENERAL FRANCIS DUNDAS.

THIS officer was appointed, the 4th of April, 1775, to an Ensigncy in the 1st Foot Guards; in May, 1777, he joined the army in North America, and was present at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and at the siege of ten forts. before the close of the campaign on the river Delaware. After their reduction, in December, the detachment of guards, employed on that service, rejoined the army and went into winter quarters at Philadelphia. The 23d of January, 1778, he received a Lieutenancy with the rank of Captain in his regiment. He served the campaign of this year, and was present in the action at Monmouth; on the march of the British army from Philadelphia to New York, in which the 2d battalion of guards were principally engaged, and having soon after been appointed to the light company of that corps, he was employed on various detached services in 1778 and 1779, in the course of which the company to which he belonged sustained considerable losses. The corps of guards being detached into South Carolina, joined the army under Lord Cornwallis, in 1780, and the light company forming his Lordship's advanced guard, it was almost every day engaged; and this officer commanded it at the battle of Guildford, and at York Town. He soon after purchased a company

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in the guards, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; and the 11th of April, 1783, exchanged into the 45th, from which he was transferred, the 10th of March, 1787, to the 1st foot. With the latter corps he embarked for Jamaica at the end of 1789, and returned to England in July, 1791. The 16th of October, 1793, he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to the King, and received the brevet of Colonel. He was employed with the latter rank in the West Indies, as Adjutant-General to Sir Charles Grey's army, and was present at the siege of Martinique, and the other islands, in 1794; and on his return to England, being appointed Colonel-Commandant of the Scotch brigade, he joined it in Scotland, and raised a new battalion. The 26th of February, 1795, he received the rank of Major-General, and was employed on the Staff in North Britain till ordered to join the army preparing for foreign service, under Sir Ralph Abercromby, at Southampton. Having returned to Portsmouth with the expedition, he was soon after appointed to take the command at the Cape, and in August, 1796, he embarked accordingly. Being appointed LieutenantGovernor, with the command of the troops under the Governor, he continued in that government until Lord Macartney returned to England, leaving him to act as Civil Governor, November, 1798. On the arrival of Lord Macartney's successor, in December, 1799, Major-General Dundas resumed his former situation; but that officer being recalled, in 1801, the civil, with the military authority, again devolved on Major-General Dundas, and he held both till the evacuation of the settlement in 1803. On his return to England, June, 1803, he was placed on the Staff in the Southern district, under Sir David Dundas. In the latter end of 1805, he was appointed to the command of a division ordered to join the army assembling in Hanover, under Lord Cathcart; and on his return, in 1806, he was again appointed to the Staff in the Southern district. The 29th of April, 1802, he received the rank of Lieutenant-General; the 1st of January, 1812, that of General; and the 7th of January, 1809, the Colonelcy of his present regiment, the 71st Foot. He was appointed Governor of Carrickfergus in Ireland, in 1787, and transferred in January, 1817, to the government of Dumbarton Castle in Scotland.

This old and distinguished officer was never upon half-pay.

51. GENERAL ALEXANDER Ross.

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...THIS officer commenced his military career as an Ensign, in the 50th foot, in February, 1760; the 22d May, 1761, he received his Lieutenancy, and shortly after was reduced upon half-pay as Lieutenant, in that regiment. The 4th of July, 1764, he paid the difference for coming upon full pay into the 45th, in which he rose to the rank of Captain, the S0th May, 1775. He obtained the brevet of Major, in 1781; of Lieutenant-Colonel, the 19th of July, 1783; and of Colonel, the 12th of October, 1793, when he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to the King. The 26th of February, 1795, he received the rank of Major-General ; the 1st September, 1795, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 76th; the 22d of December, 1797, Colonel of the 89th; the 28th of March, 1801, Colonel of the 59th; the 20th of April, 1802, Lieutenant-General; and the 1st of January, 1812, General. He was in all the actions after the beginning of the year 1760, with the allied army in Germany; in all the principal actions of the American war, during a part of which he served as Captain of grenadiers, and the latter part of it as Aid-de-Camp to Lord Cornwallis. After the American war, he was for some time Deputy-Adjutant-General in Scotland; and from thence he went to be Adjutant-General to the King's troops in the East Indies, during the period that the late Marquess Cornwallis.commanded in that country, and was present in every action that took place at that time. General Ross has since been appointed Governor of Forts George and Augustus.

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He is also one of the Consolidated Board of General Officers.

52. GENERAL, FRANCIS VISCOUNT KILLMOREY, M. P.

This officer (as the Honorable Francis Needham), was appointed Cornet 18th dragoons, in December 1762; Cornet 1st dragoons in 1769; Lieutenant 1st dragoons, in 1775; and Captain 17th dragoons 21st May 1774. He served the whole of the American war; was present at the blockade of Boston, at New York, affairs in the Jerseys, battle of White Plains, battle of Freehold, in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Virginia, at the affair at Elizabeth town, under General Knyphausen,

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