chief and governor in council, 8; appointed major-general, 9; his extra-
ordinary exertions in saving Poonah, 10; his brilliant conduct at the battle
of Assye, 10; particular account of that battle, 10; extreme disproportion
of numbers, 11; bravery of colonel Maxwell, 13; characteristic traits as
general, 15; principal features in the battle of Assye, 15; resemblance in
his military character to that of the late duke of Brunswick and the king
of Prussia, 16; correction of inaccuracies in some of the foregoing parti.
culars, 95; defeats the rajah of Berar in the plains of Agram, 96; storms
the fortress of Gawilghar, 96; signs a treaty with the rajah of Berar, and
afterwards with Scindia, 97; presented with a sword by the inhabitants
of Calcutta, receives the thanks of both houses and the order of the Bath,
97; appointed to a command in the expedition to Copenhagen, 98; battle
of Kioge, 98; prepares and signs the articles of capitulation, 99; returns
to Eugland, 99; his character, civil and military, 99; points of resemblance
between his character and that of the duke of Marlborough and Buona-
parte, 99; general abstract of guns and men employed in the position at
Torres Vedras, Nov. 10, 1810; superseded by sir Harry Burrard, who gives
orders to discontinue the pursuit at the battle of Vimiera; advances to
Torres Vedras; recalled to attend the court of inquiry on the convention
at Cintra; receives two pieces of plate as testimonies of esteem from the
general and field officers under his command, 446.

West Indies, state of, previous to the expedition under sir R. Abercrombie,
15; particulars of the expedition against the French colonies there under
sir Charles Grey, 327.

Windsor, knights of, military order, 208; particulars of their institution, 210.
Wilson, sir Robert, extracts from, relative to the present state of the Russian
army, 270.

Whyte, major-gen, captures the settlements of Demerara and Essequibo, 329.

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Yeomanry cavalry, hints for the improvement of, 383.

York, duke of, takes the command in the expedition to Holland, 21; retires
with his whole army behind their entrenchments at Zyp, 24; cause of this
failure attributed to the impetuosity and confusion of the Russians, 25;
battle of the Sandhills, 27; capitulation of Alkmaar, 32.

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Zurich carried by assault by the French under Massena, 263.

EMBELLISHMENTS.

NOVEMBER, No. 1.-1. A portrait of lord viscount Wellington, K. B. en-
2. A military map, shewing the relative situations of
graved by Scriven.
the British and French armies in the battle of Busaco.

DECEMBER, No. 2.-1. An ably engraved portrait of general sir John
2. A military map and plan of the island of
Stuart, of Maida, by Cardon.
Sicily, with the channel between that island and Italy.

JANUARY, No. 3.-1. An ably engraved portrait of sir David Baird, by
Cardon. 2. A map of Portugal.

FEBRUARY, No. 4.-1. An ably engraved portrait of lord Hutchinson, by
/Cardon. 2. Fortification plates.

MARCH, No. 5.-1. An ably engraved portrait of sir Eyre Coote, by Car-
don. 2. Fortification plates.

APRIL, No. 6.-1. Portrait of earl Moira. 2. Fortification plates.

SUPPLEMENT, APRIL.—An ably engraved portrait of sir John Moore, by

Cardon.

THE ROYAL

MILITARY CHRONICLE.

NOVEMBER, 1810,

THE LIFE OF LORD WELLINGTON,

IT has been stated in the Prospectus, by which this work has been introduced to the public, that the British army, in ancient glory and present reputation, is inferior to no army in the world; and that, in the present day, it contains a great proportion of illus trious individuals who have supported and augmented our national estimation. Amongst these individuals, no name will descend to posterity with greater and more merited splendour than that of Lord Wellington. There are not wanting persons, perhaps, in the present day, who, from certain narrow motives, or from mistaken conceptions, withhold from him the praise which justly belongs to him. The due settlement of the account of merit always belongs to posterity. When the passions and prejudices of the day have passed over, when flattery is without a temptation, and envy without an object-it is then, and then only, that reason can hold her scales with a steady hand, and make her assay, both of weight and purity, without any thing to confound or prevent her.

Perhaps few families exist in the present time who owe more to the happy concurrence of great talents and good fortune than the Wellesleys. The late King of Prussia, who, amongst his other eminent gifts, had an extraordinary faculty of observation, used to say, "that he knew no instance of any great man, except where fortune and merit had concurred to make him so; that fortune must raise him from the ground, and that his own vigour of wing must then maintain him in his elevation." The Wellesleys have had this concurrence. A happy course of events has produced

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