anxiously hope that your Lordship will maintain Mr. Udny in his seat in Council; and that at the expiration of the prescribed period of five years, your Lordship will cause his appointment to be renewed.

"This solicitation is principally founded on a just sense of Mr. Udny's merits; but it is also inseparably connected with the principles of justice, and with those of honourable attachment to faithful and virtuous friendship.

"I consider my personal character and the cause of my administration to be deeply involved in the protection of Mr. Udny against the enemies of both; and I shall feel any wound inflicted upon that meritorious public officer as sensibly as if it were directly pointed at my reputation. I have the honour to be, with great regard and esteem, my dear Lord, your Lordship's most faithful servant, WELLESLEY."

APPENDIX.

(1.)

Translation of the Latin Verses written by Lord Wellesley at Walmer Castle, September, 1797 (vide p. 131, vol. i.) by Viscount Morpeth, now Earl of Carlisle.*

"Parent of countless crimes, in headlong rage,

War with herself see frantic Gallia wage,

'Till worn and wasted by intestine strife,

She falls her languid pulse scarce quick with life.
But soon she feels, through every trembling vein,
New strength collected from convulsive pain:
Onward she moves, and sounds the dire alarm,
And bids insulted nations haste to arm;

Spreads wide the waste of War, and hurls the brand
Of Civil Discord o'er each troubled land;
While Desolation marks her furious course,
And thrones, subverted, bow beneath her force.
Behold! she pours her Monarch's guiltless blood,
And quaffs, with savage joy, the crimson flood;
Then, proud the deadly trophies to display
Of her foul crime, resistless bursts away,
Unaw'd by justice, unappall'd by fear,

And runs with giant strength her mad career.

"Where'er her banners float in barbarous pride,

Where'er her conquest rolls in sanguine tide,
There, the fair fabric of establish'd law,
There, social order, and religious awe,
Sink in the general wreck; indignant there
Honour and Virtue fly the tainted air;
Fly the mild duties of domestic life

That cheer the parent, that endear the wife,

* From the Anti-Jacobin, No. VII., December 25th, 1797.

The lingering pangs of kindred grief assuage,
Or soothe the sorrows of declining age.—

"Nor yet can Hope presage the auspicious hour,
When Peace shall check the rage of lawless Power;
Nor yet the insatiate thirst of blood is o'er,
Nor yet has Rapine ravaged every shore.
Exhaustless Passion feeds the augmented flame,
And wild Ambition mocks the voice of Shame :
Revenge, with haggard look and scowling eyes,
Surveys with horrid joy the expected prize;
Prowls round each remnant of monarchic sway,
And dooms to certain death his fancied prey.-
"For midst the ruins of each falling state,
One Favour'd Nation braves the general fate:
One favour'd nation, whose impartial laws
Of sober Freedom vindicate the cause;
Her simple manners, midst surrounding crimes,
Proclaim the genuine worth of ancient times:
True to herself, unconquerably bold,
The Rights her valour gain'd she dares uphold,
Still with pure faith her promise dares fulfil,
Still bows submission to the Almighty Will.-
"Just Heav'n! how Envy kindles at the sight!
How mad Ambition plans the desperate fight!
With what new fury Vengeance hastes to pour
Her tribes of rapine from yon crowded shore!
Just Heav'n! how fair a victim at the shrine
Of injured Freedom shall her life resign,
If e'er, propitious to the vows of hate,
Unsteady Conquest stamp our mournful fate,—
If e'er proud France usurp our ancient reign,
And ride triumphant o'er the insulted main !

Far hence the unmanly thought! The voice of Fame
Wafts o'er the applauding deep her Duncan's name.
What though the Conqueror of the Italian plains
Deem nothing gain'd, while this fair Isle remains,
Though his young breast with rash presumption glow,
He braves the vengeance of no vulgar foe:
Conqueror no more, full soon his laurel'd pride
Shall perish; whelm'd in Ocean's angry tide
His broken bands shall rue the fatal day,
And scatter'd navies own Britannia's sway!"

(2.)

The Army of Seringapatam under the command of General Harriş.

(Vide p. 246.)

CAVALRY.

FIRST BRIGADE.-Colonel Stevenson, his Majesty's 19th dragoons, and the 1st and 4th regiments of native cavalry. SECOND BRIGADE.-Colonel Pater, his Majesty's 25th dragoons, and the 2nd and 3rd regiments of native cavalry.

INFANTRY.

FIRST BRIGADE.-Major-General Baird, his Majesty's 12th and 74th regiments, and the Scotch brigade.

SECOND BRIGADE.-The Honourable Colonel Wellesley, his Majesty's 33rd and 73rd regiments, and the regiment de Meuron.

THIRD BRIGADE.-Colonel Cowdie, 1st regiment, 1st battalion, 6th regiment, and 1st battalion, 12th regiment of sepoys.

FOURTH BRIGADE.-Lieutenant-Colonel Gardner, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalion of Bengal volunteer sepoys.

FIFTH BRIGADE.-Colonel Sherbrooke, 2nd battalion, 3rd regiment, 1st battalion, 8th regiment, and 2nd battalion, 12th regiment sepoys.

SIXTH BRIGADE.-Lieutenant-Colonel Suff, 2nd battalion, 5th regiment; 2nd battalion, 9th regiment.

GENERAL STAFF APPOINTED TO THE ARMY.

Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant-General Harris.
Military Secretary to ditto, Captain Macauley.
Private Secretary to ditto, Lieutenant-Colonel Agnew.

Persian Interpreter to ditto, Lieutenant-Colonel Close. Aides-de-camp to ditto, Lieutenants Marrott, Scott, and Harris.

Adjutant-General to the Army, Lieutenant-Colonel Close.

Deputy Adjutant-General, Lieutenant-Colonel Agnew. Acting Deputy Adjutant-General, Captain Turing. Assistant Acting Deputy Adjutant-General Captain Pearce.

Quartermaster-General to the army, Lieutenant-Colonel Richardson.

Deputy ditto, Captain Allen.

Assistant Deputy ditto, Lieutenant B. Sydenham.

Chief Engineer, Colonel Gent.

Adjutant of Engineers, Lieutenant Frazer.

Captain of the Guides, Captain Orr.

Commissary of Stores, Lieutenant-Colonel Carlisle.

Deputy ditto, Captain J. Prescott.

Agent for Bullocks, Major Dallas.
Commissary of Grain, Major Hart.
Commissary of Provisions, Major Corner.
Superintendent of Bazers, Captain Macleod.
Judge Advocate-General, Captain Leith.
Mustermaster of the Army, Captain A. Grant.
Paymaster of the Army, W. H. Gordon, Esq.
Surgeon to ditto, A. Anderson, Esq.

Commander of Pioneers, Captain Drun.

Postmaster, Captain Bond.

Subordinate Agent for the Carriage of Camp-equipage of the Army, Lieutenant Berkley.

Acting Deputy Adjutant-General of his Majesty's troops, Captain K. Young.

Major of Brigade, ditto, Deputy Paymaster of his Majesty's Troops, Colonel C. V. Hart.