general, and was appointed colonel of the NINTH foot in the following year. He was second in command in North Britain several years. In the winter of 1794, he was employed in suppressing riots at Glasgow, where he caught a severe illness, of which he died at his seat of Beechwood, near Edinburgh, on the 27th of December. He has been commended for an amiable disposition, in which benevolence, valour, and modesty were happily blended.

ALBEMARLE BERTIE.

Appointed 31st December, 1794.

THIS officer served upwards of thirty years in the first regiment of foot guards, commencing as ensign on the 1st of March, 1762, and attaining to the commission of second major on the 8th of August, 1792. On the 12th of October, 1793, he was promoted to the rank of major-general; in 1794, he was appointed colonel of the NINTH foot; in 1798, he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general, and in 1803 to that of general; in 1804, he was removed to the seventy-seventh regiment. He died in 1808.

PETER HUNTER.

Appointed 15th June, 1804.

PETER HUNTER obtained a commission of ensign in the first, the royal regiment of foot, in 1767; he was promoted lieutenant in 1768, and had the command of a company in 1776. He served with the royals in Great Britain, and at the island of Minorca, and in 1779, he was appointed major in the ninety-second regiment, afterwards disbanded. In 1781, he was removed to the sixtieth regiment, in which corps he was appointed lieut.-colonel in 1787, and in 1792, he was promoted to the rank of colonel in the army in 1793, he was appointed colonel-commandant in the sixtieth regiment. When the war of the French revolution broke out, in 1793, he was employed on the continent, where he had the local rank of brigadier-general in 1794; in the following year he was

promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1802 to that of lieut.-general; and in 1804 King George III. rewarded him with the colonelcy of the NINTH foot. He was lieut.-governor of Upper Canada, and commander-in-chief in both the Canadas, and died at Quebec in 1805.

SIR ROBERT BROWNRIGG, BART., G.C.B.

Appointed 3rd October, 1805.

ROBERT BROWNRIGG, son of Sir Henry Brownrigg of Rockingham, was appointed ensign in the fourteenth foot in 1775, and joined the regiment in North America in 1776, but returned to England soon afterwards. In 1778 he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and was appointed adjutant of the fourteenth foot in the same year. In 1780, he embarked on board the Channel-fleet where his regiment was appointed to serve as marines; in 1782, he proceeded with the fourteenth to Jamaica, where he remained until the beginning of 1784, when he returned to England. In March, of that year, he was appointed captain in the 100th foot, from which he exchanged to the thirty-fifth, and afterwards to the fifty-second. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1790, and appointed deputy quarter-master general to an expedition fitting out against the Spaniards in South America, but which did not proceed to its destination. Towards the end of 1790, he was appointed commandant and paymaster to a number of detachments, of regiments on foreign service, at Chatham barracks, which he held until 1793, when he was appointed deputy quarter-master general to the army, serving in Flanders. In the same year he was appointed lieut.-colonel of the 88th regiment. He served at all the actions in which the British army under his Royal Highness the Duke of York took part in 1794, and also in the retreat through Holland to Germany. When the Duke of York was appointed to the duties of commander-in-chief, Lieutenant-Colonel Brownrigg was nominated to the appointment of military secretary to His Royal Highness, and on the 21st of June, 1795, he exchanged to captain and lieutenant-colonel in the second foot guards. In 1796 he was promoted to the rank of colonel; in 1799, he accompanied the Duke of York in the expedition to Holland,

and continued as secretary to His Royal Highness until 1803, when he was appointed quarter-master general to the forces. In 1799, he was appointed colonel commandant of the sixth battalion of the sixtieth regiment; in 1802, he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1805, he was rewarded with the colonelcy of the NINTH foot. He was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general in 1808; he accompanied the expedition to Holland in 1809; was at the siege of Flushing, and in the subsequent operations, and wrote a journal of the proceedings of the army which was laid before parliament.

In 1813 Lieut-General Brownrigg was appointed governor and commander-in-chief in the island of Ceylon, and was afterwards honored with the dignity of knight grand cross of the order of the Bath. In 1815 he invaded the state of Kandy, situate in the interior of Ceylon, which was conquered and annexed to the British crown; and in 1816 he was rewarded with the dignity of Baronet. In 1819 he was promoted to the rank of general. An honorable augmentation was made to his arms, in 1822, consisting of the crown, sceptre, and banner of Kandy, on an embattled chief; and for a crest, a demi-Kandian holding a sword and the crown. He remained governor of Ceylon until 1820, when he returned to England. He died in 1833.

SIR JOHN CAMERON, K.C.B.

Appointed 31st May, 1833.

JOHN CAMERON was second son of Culchenna, and nephew of Cameron of Caltort, Inverness-shire, whose ancestor was a younger son of Lochiel, chief of the clan. He was born in 1773, and married in 1803, Miss Brock, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Brock, of Belmont, Guernsey, and niece of the first Lord de Saumarez. Sir John entered the army in September, 1787, as ensign in the 43rd regiment, in which regiment he attained the rank of major in October, 1800. In 1794, he served under Sir Charles Grey in the West Indies, and was present at the reduction of Martinique (including the siege of Fort Bourbon and other minor engagements) at St. Lucia, and Guadaloupe, and particularly displayed his gallantry at the defence of the latter in the same year, and at the sortie

from, and at the assault made by the enemy on the fortress of Fleur d'Epée. He was at the action of the 30th of September at Berville camp, under Brigadier-General Graham; and in the action of the 7th October he was severely wounded, and was taken by the enemy. He remained a prisoner of war during a period of two years, and then came to England, but his military duties at home were of short duration, for in six months he was again ordered with his regiment to the West Indies, where he was on foreign service for nearly four years. He was promoted to a lieut.-colonelcy in the 7th West India regiment on the 28th May, 1807, and was removed to the NINTH foot on the 5th of September of that year. On his return to his native country, he was ordered with his regiment, the NINTH foot, to the seat of war in Portugal, Sir John at that time holding the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in that gallant corps. His services in the Peninsula were acknowledged by several honorary distinctions. At the battle of Vimiera he commanded the second battalion of the NINTH foot. He was at the battle of Corunna under Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, and by the intrepid bravery he displayed at that sanguinary conflict, the deceased gained the approbation of his superior in command. In July, 1809, he embarked on the expedition to the Scheldt, in the command of the first battalion of the NINTH regiment, and returned in September following to England. In March, 1810, he proceeded with the NINTH regiment to increase the force of the army in Portugal, then commanded by Viscount Wellington, and he continued in active service under that great commander until the termination of the war in 1814. He particularly distinguished himself at Busaco, where he had a horse shot under him; also at Salamanca and Vittoria. In July, 1813, previous to the assault and capture of San Sebastian, he carried, with the NINTH foot, the fortified convent of San Bartholomew, in front of San Sebastian, thus gaining a position which contributed greatly to the advantage of the allied army. He subsequently took an active share in the battles of the Nive of the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December, and in those encounters he had another horse shot. During those services he was twice wounded, and twice severely contused. In acknowledgment for his eminent services in the Peninsula,

he received the decoration of a cross and three clasps. Sir John Cameron embarked for Canada in June, 1814, from Pouillac in France, in command of the NINTH regiment, which was recalled from North America in the following year, in consequence of the warlike aspect Europe had assumed, and of the return of Napoleon to France. The regiment reached Ostend in August, 1815, and immediately proceeded to join the allied army which then occupied Paris. On the 4th June, 1814, he was promoted to the rank of colonel in the army, and to that of major-general on the 19th July, 1821, when he relinquished the command of the NINTH regiment. On the 25th September, 1823, he was appointed to the command of the western district, and to be lieutenant-governor of Plymouth, which appointments he held until the 30th September, 1834. In consideration of his eminent services, Sir John Cameron was created a knight commander of the military order of the Bath on the 2nd January, 1815. The Portuguese government conferred on him the order of the Tower and Sword, for the able services he rendered to that nation in the course of the French war in that country. Sir John Cameron was appointed to the colonelcy of the 93rd regiment on the 23rd July, 1832; and on the 31st May, 1833, he was removed to the NINTH foot, which regiment he had commanded as lieutenant-colonel upwards of thirteen years: he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general on the 10th of January, 1837. His decease took place at Guernsey on the 23rd November, 1844, after a period of service of nearly sixty years.

SIR THOMAS ARBUTHNOT, K.C.B.

Appointed 7th December, 1844; removed to the 71st Highland Light Infantry Regiment on the 18th February, 1848.

SIR JAMES ARCHIBALD HOPE, K.C.B.
Appointed 18th February, 1848.

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