partnership with Messrs. Whittingham, Huntsman, Knevett, &c.; but, like Didot, the celebrated printer of Paris, the profits of Mr. Arliss's speculations did not keep pace with the approbation of the public. For some years past he had, also, been in ill health; and through this, with other untoward circumstances, he has left a family of five young chil- dren totally unprovided for. As a man of genius and taste, Mr. Arliss stood unrivalled; and altogether, he must be allowed to have given many new fea- tures to the several branches of the art which he professed.-Monthly Maga-
BALCARRAS, the Right Hon. Alexander Lindsay, ninth Earl of, co. Fife, seventh Lord Lindsay, of Cummernald, one of the sixteen re- presentative peers of Scotland, a general and colonel of the 63d regiment of foot; March 27; at his seat, Haigh Hall, Lancashire; aged 73.
He was born in 1752, the eldest son of James the fifth Earl, by Anne, daugh- ter of Sir Robert Dalrymple of Castle- ton, Knt. He succeeded his father in February, 1767, and being of a military family and disposition, entered the army on the fifth of July in that year as en- sign of 53d foot, which regiment he joined at Gibraltar immediately after. His lordship obtained two years leave of absence to travel on the continent; was allowed to pass over the rank of lieu- tenant, and was appointed to a company in the 42d, Jan. 23, 1771, and to a majority in the 53d, Dec. 9, 1775. He served three years in Canada and North America, under the late Generals Sir Guy Carlton and Burgoyne; was pre- sent at the action of Trois Revieres, June 1, 1776; commanded the light infantry of the army at Ticonderoga and Hughbarton, July 7, 1777; also at Freeman's Farm, Sept. 19, on the heights of Saratoga and Freeman's Farm, with the command of the advanced corps of the army, Brigadier-General Fraser being killed, in the action of the 7th of October. The 8th of October his lordship was appointed lieutenant- colonel of the 24th foot, which regiment he accompanied to the interior of the country, it having been included in the convention of Saratoga. On the death of Lieutenant-General Fraser, the 71st
regiment, consisting of two battalionis, was formed into two separate and dis- tinct regiments, viz. the 71st and the 2d 71st, and Lord Balcarras was ap- pointed lieutenant-colonel commandant of the 2d 71st, Feb. 19, 1782; that re- giment was disbanded in 1783, and his lordship remained on half-pay six years and a half.
He returned to England, and soon after his return was examined before a com- mittee of the House of Commons rela- tive to the events which led to the un- fortunate capitulation of Saratoga. He married June 1, 1780, Elizabeth, only child of his uncle, Charles Dalrymple of North Berwick, Esq., by Elizabeth, only daughter of John Edwin, Esq., by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Roger Braidshaigh of Haigh, co. Lancaster, Bart. (which estate, on the failure of the issue male of the Braidshaighs, devolved on Elizabeth, Countess of Balcarras.) By this lady the earl had four sons and two daughters: James, the eldest son, late M. P. for Wigan, has succeeded to his father's titles; Charles-Robert, the second, is collector of customs at Agre in Bengal; Edwin, the fourth son, is in the E. I. C. service, at Madras; Eliza- beth Keith, his lordship's eldest daugh- ter, was married in 1815, to R. E. Heath- cote, Esq. of Longtonhall, co. Stafford; his second daughter, Anne, was married in 1811, to Robert Wardlie, Esq. of Balgarvie, co. Fife.
Earl Balcarras received the rank of colonel, and a special commission to command in Jersey, Nov. 20, 1782; and was charged for one year with the correspondence and communications with the armies of La Vendée and Les Chouans. He was first elected one of the sixteen peers for Scotland in 1784, and had been re-chosen for every parlia- ment since that time, except that which sat between 1796 and 1802.
His lordship was promoted Aug. 29, 1789, to the colonelcy of the 63d foot, which he retained till his death; and received the rank of major-general, Oct. 12, 1799. He continued on the staff at Jersey till removed to command the forces in Jamaica in 1794, when he was also placed at the head of the civil administration as lieutenant-governor. He held also a general military super- intendance over the St. Domingo dis- tricts nearest to Jamaica. He resided in that island during the whole of the Maroon war, which commenced in 1795; on its conclusion the assembly voted
Lord Balcarras 700 guineas for the pur- chase of a sword. During his residence he purchased some plantation property. The rank of lieutenant-general was con- ferred on his lordship Jan. 1, 1798. The period of his continuance on the staff in the West Indies was six years and nine months; and he was advanced to the rank of general, Sept. 25, 1803.
On the 6th of May, little more than a month after the earl's decease, died Lady Ann Bernard, his lordship's eldest sister, being the first child of the 5th earl. She was born Dec. 8, 1750, and was married in Oct. 1793, to the late Andrew Bernard, Esq., secretary to the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and son of Thomas Bernard, D. D. Bishop of Limerick. She expired after a protracted illness, at her house in Berke- ley Square. The Royal Military Ca- lendar and Gentleman's Magazine.
BOGUE, the Rev. David, D.D. of Gosport; Oct. 24; after a few days' illness, at the house of the Rev. J. N. Goulty, Brighton; in his 77th year. Dr. Bogue was universally esteemed, and is deservedly lamented. He had been about 50 years pastor of the church of Pro- testant Dissenters at Gosport, was tutor of the Missionary Seminary, and one of the first promoters of the London Mis- sionary Society. On Tuesday, Nov. 1, the remains of Dr. Bogue were removed from Brighton to Gosport, attended by a deputation of the London Missionary Society, and many other friends. Marks of respect for his memory were mani- fested by the inhabitants of Brighton, and of the several towns through which the procession passed. At Fareham, the deacons and trustees of the chapel in which the deceased officiated, joined the procession in mourning coaches, and several private carriages followed in their train; about a mile from Gosport, the body was received by the church and congregation over which the deceased had presided, as well as by the students of the seminary under his care; by whom it was conducted to the vestry-room ad- joining the Independent Chapel in Gos- port, where it was deposited for the night. On the following morning, the remains of Dr. Bogue were conveyed into the chapel, of which he had been minister nearly half a century, when a funeral oration was delivered by the Rev. John Griffin, of Portsea, to a crowded auditory. At twelve o'clock the funeral procession moved towards Alverstoke, and on reaching the new
burial ground, the funeral service was read by the Rev. Henry Aubrey Veck, and the procession returned in the same order that it came. In the evening a funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Winter, when the chapel was crowded to excess, and multitudes were prevented from gaining admission. Dur- ing the day the shops and houses of the inhabitants were closed, and all seemed desirous of expressing their esteem and veneration for the memory of the de- ceased. His loss will be as deeply and as extensively felt amongst dissenters as that, perhaps, of any man of his day. He was one of those men who contri- buted greatly to influence the character of the public mind. Gentleman's Ma- gazine.
BROWNE, William, Esq.; 20th July, in John Street, Fitzroy Square; in the 77th year of his age. His talents as a gem engraver will hand down his name, in conjunction with Marchant and Burch, to the latest posterity: his universal philanthropy, his unaffected kindness and intrinsic worth, will be ever remembered by his family and friends, to whom his death is a source of the most sincere sorrow. In early life, Mr. Browne enjoyed the patronage of the Empress Catherine of Russia, and had an unlimited order for her ca- binet, in which the principal part of his works are deposited. The French revo- lution having obliged him to quit Paris, where he was much patronized by the court of Louis XVI., he returned to England, to find his favourite art ne- glected and forgotten, except where the ingenuity of Italian artists could extract from his wealthy countrymen immense sums, for modern antiques, and spurious specimens of Greek or Roman work- manship. Of Burch and Marchant, the former had sheltered himself in the Royal Academy, of which he was ap- pointed librarian; the latter had accepted a place in the Stamp Office, as an en- graver of stamps. Under these dis- couraging circumstances, Mr. Browne still prosecuted his art, and engraved a series of portraits of illustrious persons of Great Britain; a part of which are in the possession of His Majesty. His last great work was a cameo or sardonyx, for the lid of the box presented by the Light Horse Volunteers to Col. Her- ries.-Monthly Magazine.
BURNE, Lieutenant General Ro- bert, at Berkeley Cottage, Stanmore. He entered the army in 1773, by pur-
chasing an ensigncy in the 36th regi- ment; and in January 1777, obtained a lieutenancy also by purchase. In 1783, the 56th regiment volunteered its services for the East Indies, and this officer embarked with it, and landed at Madras in July of that year. In 1784 he succeeded to the captain lieutenancy, and on the 7th of May of the same year, was appointed captain of a company; and upon the army taking the field against the late Tippoo Sultaun, he was captain of grenadiers. He was in the battles of Sattimungulum and Showere, with a detachment of the army com- manded by General Floyd, and was afterwards at the storming of Bangalore, Pettah, the fort of Bangalore, the Hill fort of Nundydroog, at the battle of Seringapatam, the attack of the post at Carrigatt Hill, and at the storming of the End Gaw redoubt (part of the lines before Seringapatam), under the late Marquis Cornwallis, and in 1793 he was at the siege and capture of Pondi- cherry. March 1, 1794, he was ap- pointed major by brevet, and in 1796 purchased a majority in the regiment. Jan. 1, 1798, he was appointed lieu- tenant-colonel by brevet; and in the same year the 36th was drafted into the 76th regiment, and the non-commis- sioned officers, drummers, &c. under the command of this officer, sailed from Madras, and landed in England in 1799. An order was issued by the governor in council, and commander-in-chief of Madras, on the 36th regiment quitting India, where it had served upwards of fifteen years, highly complimentary to Lieutenant-colonel Burne and his brave companions.
In 1799 he was promoted to the lieu- tenant-colonelcy of the regiment, and soon after its arrival in England it was completed with volunteers from the mi- litia, and in 1800 embarked with the troops destined, as was supposed, for the attack upon Belleisle; and after being encamped upon the island of Howas some weeks, he re-embarked with the regiment, and landed in the Island of Minorca; from which island he, in 1801, from severe illness, was ordered to England for the recovery of his health (being the first time he was ever absent from the regiment), and upon the conclusion of the peace, the island being restored to the Spaniards, he was ordered to remain in England until the arrival of the regiment at home, when, in the latter part of 1802, he
again took the command of it on its arrival in Ireland,
In 1805 he embarked with the regi- ment for Germany; and upon the ter- mination of the service in that country in 1806, returned to England. In the latter part of the same year, he em- barked with the regiment on the expe. dition to South America, under the late Major General Crawford; and in June 1807 landed in that country, and was with the advance of the army at the operations in the suburbs of Buenos Ayres on the 2d, Sd, 4th, and the attack on the town of Buenos Ayres on the 5th of July.
The regiment returned home in 1807, and on the 25th of April 1808, this officer was appointed colonel by brevet. In July of the same year he embarked with the army destine for the Penin- sula, cominanded by Sir Arthur Wel- lesly, landed in Portugal, and was pre- sent at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera, where he greatly distinguished himself. He was shortly afterwards honoured by His Majesty with the government of Carlisle. After these services, this of- ficer proceeded in command of the re- giment with that party destined to join the late Sir John Moore at Salamanca in Spain, and was present at the battle of Corunna, and then re-embarked with the army for England in 1809. For his services at Roleia, Vimiera, and Co- runna, he received the honorary distinc- tion of a medal and clasp.
In 1810 he embarked with the expe- dit on to the Scheldt, commanded the regiment at the siege and capture of Flushing in the island of Walcheren, was afterwards appointed colonel on the staff at that place, where he continued until the evacuation of the island. 1811 he was appointed a brigadier on the staff in Portugal, and in that coun- try subsequently a major-general, and landed there prior to the retreat of the French army from Santarem, and was present at the battle of Fuentes D'Onor in Spain, and the other operations in which the sixth division of the army was engaged, until recalled to be employed elsewhere.
Upon his return to England, he was appointed on the home staff, and was ordered to take the command of the camp near Lichfield. Upon the break- ing up of that encampment, he was ordered to the command of the Notting- ham district, where he remained on the staff until September 24, 1814.
CAMPBELL, Lieutenant General Sir Alexander, Bart., K. C. B., at Fort St. George, 11th December 1824, in the 65th year of his age. This highly dis- tinguished officer was the fourth son of John Campbell, of Baleed, in Perth- shire, by Isabella, daughter of John Campbell, of Barcaldine. He entered the service in the year 1776, as an en. sign, by purchase, in the first battalion of the Royal Scots, and was promoted to a lieutenancy in 1778. In 1780 he purchased a company in the 97th regi- ment; and in the course of that year he served on board a 90-gun ship, belong- ing to the grand channel fleet under Admiral Darby, in command of three companies of his regiment. In 1781, the 97th was landed at Gibraltar, where he commanded the light company dur- ing the remainder of the siege, and was aiding in the destruction of the enemy's floating batteries.
At the peace of 1783 he was placed on half-pay. He continued in that situation till 1787, when he was ap- pointed to the 74th regiment, then form- ing for service in the East Indies, and for which he raised nearly 500 men. In this distinguished corps, in which he served two and twenty years, (fifteen of them in India,) his two sons and three of his nephews were slain in action; and on his leaving it be was the only individual who belonged to it at its formation in 1787.
In the year 1793 he went to India. In 1794 he was appointed brigade- major to the king's troops on the coast of Coromandel, and subsequently, in the same year, selected by Lord Hobart, governor of Madras, for the civil, judi- cial, and military charge of the settle- ment and fort of Pondicherry, recently conquered from the French, and was honored with the expression of the en-
tire approbation of government for his services therein.
After serving sixteen years as a cap- tain, he succeeded, in the year 1795, to the majority and lieutenant-colonelcy of his regiment.
In the year 1797 he was appointed to command a flank corps of the force formed at Madras to act against Manilla. The expedition, however, proceeded no further than Prince of Wales's Island, whence, owing to local political cir- cumstances, it was recalled to Fort St. George.
In 1799 he commanded his regiment, the 74th, which formed part of the army under General (now Lord) Harris, sent against Tippoo Sultaun, and received the thanks of the commander-in-chief for the gallant conduct of that corps at the battle of Mallavelly. At the siege and capture of Seringapatam, he had the honor of being particularly distinguish- ed by the strongest expressions of the commander-in-chief's approbation. One exploit which he performed upon this occasion, and which created great con- fusion in the Sultan's army, was an at- tack upon a circular work, from which he dislodged the enemy with great gal- lantry, pursuing them across the bridge of communication, and entering the island with the fugitives. He came upon the right of the Sultan's entrenched camp, where he bayoneted some of the enemy in their tents, and spiked several guns. He also served in the first cam- paign which immediately followed the conquest of Mysore, against Dhoudia Waugh, under Sir Arthur Wellesley, now Duke of Wellington.
In 1800 he was appointed to the im- portant command of the Fort of Banga- lore, which he retained till again re- moved to the command of Pondicherry.
In 1801 he was selected to command the force destined to reduce the Danish settlement of Tranguebar, and effected that object to the entire satisfaction of government.
In 1802 he was appointed to the com- mand of the northern division of the Madras army, with a force of 5,000 men, occupying a line of sea-coast 700 miles in length, and received the uni- form approbation of his superiors in the conduct of various detachments of this force employed in the field in active and difficult operations, and in most un- healthy districts. While in this com- mand, and his head quarters were at
Vizagapatam, he had the satisfaction of aiding in the very gallant defence made by His Majesty's ship Centurion, Cap- tain Lind, while at anchor, against Ad- miral Linois's squadron.
At the commencement of the war with the Mahratta States in 1803, the Marquis Wellesley, Governor-General, selected him to command the force, up- wards of 5,000 men, destined for the subjugation of the rich province of Cut- tack; the arrangements for which en- terprise were entirely completed by him under circumstances of peculiar dif- ficulty. But severe illness, which me- naced his life for several weeks after- wards, as stated by the governor-general in his dispatches, unfortunately prevent- ed him from leading the troops on that important service, and he was conse- quently forced to return after the first day's march. On the 25th of September of this year, he obtained the rank of colonel.
The high estimation in which this officer's talents were held by the go- vernor-general may further be inferred from his lordship having appointed him to succeed his brother, Major-general Sir Arthur Wellesley, in the most im- portant command of Seringapatam, My- sore, and all the late Tippoo Sultaun's dominions, on the departure of Sir Ar- thur from India, in the year 1805.
In 1806, on the return to England of the 74th regiment, he was removed by the commander-in-chief in India, to the 69th (which, however, was not confirm- ed at home), and appointed by govern- ment to the command of Trichinopoly, and the southern division of the army, where a strong force had just been as- sembled for field service; General Mac- dowall being appointed to the command of Mysore. In this period he had the good fortune, by the measures he adopt- ed for the purpose, to seize about 200 of the mutineers engaged in the mas- sacre of the European troops at Vellore.
He left India in the latter end of the year 1807, and on his arrival in Eng- land, in 1808, he was appointed a bri- gadier-general, and placed on the staff in Ireland.
In January 1809, he was appointed to the staff of the army serving in Por- tugal and Spain, and was present at the crossing of the Douro, and in the pur- suit of General Soult.
At the memorable battle of Talavera, where he was wounded through the thigh by a grape-shot, he commanded
the division which formed the right wing of the British army (his own brigade forming part of it), and which so gal- lantly charged and routed ten times its number of the enemy, forcing them to abandon seventeen pieces of cannon. On this occasion he received the marked ap- probation of the commander-in chief in public orders for his "courage and judgment," and was honoured with his recommendation for some substantial mark of His Majesty's favour; in con- sequence of which the king was graci- ously pleased to appoint him colonel of the York Light Infantry Volunteers.
In January 1810, being recovered of his wound, he proceeded to rejoin the army under Lord Wellington in Portu- gal, and was soon after appointed to the command of a division. The 25th of July, this year, he received the rank of Major-general. He remained with the army during the movements towards Lisbon, was present at the battle of Busaco, in the pursuit of Massena, at the battle of Fuente D'Onor, and at the affair of Fuente Guinaldo; shortly after which a severe indisposition com- pelled him to relinquish the command of the sixth division, and to return to England in December 1811, having previously been placed on the staff of India.
Sir Alexander Campbell received the honour of knighthood in 1812, previ- ously to acting as proxy for Lord Wel- lington at an installation of the bath. On the 9th of March in that year, he was appointed commander of the forces, with local rank of lieutenant-general, at the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon, where he arrived in January 1813, and continued until August 1816, when, in consequence of the peace reductions, his appointment was abolished. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-ge- neral, June 4, 1814. Sir Alexander was created a baronet, May 6, 1815. As an honourable augmentation to his arms, was added on a chief argent, a rock pro- per, surmounted by the word GIBRAL- TAR, and between the representations of two medals received by Sir Alexander for his conduct at Seringapatam in 1799, and at Talavera in 1809.
He was removed from the York Light Infantry Volunteers to the colonelcy of the 80th foot, December 28, 1815; and nominated commander-in-chief at Ma- dras, December 6, 1820.
The demise of his excellency was published by the government at Fort
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