HONORARY DISTINCTIONS, (Continued from Page 8.) BOURBON. 86th Regiment of Foot. BUSACO. 1st, 9th, 43rd, 45th, 52nd, 74th, and 88th Regiments of Foot, Rifle Brigade. COPENHAGEN. 49th Regiment of Foot, CORUNNA. 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. 4th, 14th, 26th 42nd, 43rd, 50th, 52nd, 59th, and 81st Regiments of Infantry, Rifle Brigade. CIUDAD RODRIGO. 5th, 43rd, 45th, 52nd, 60th, 74th, 77th, 83rd, and 88th Regiments of Foot. Rifle Brigade. DETROIT. 41st Regiment of Foot. DOURO. 3rd and 66th Regiments of Foot. (To be continued.) GENEROUS DEVOTION Of an Highlander in the Old 74th Regiment, during the American War. Ar a moment when Lord Cornwallis was giving orders to charge, a Highland soldier rushed forward and placed himself in front of his Officer, Lieutenant Simon M'Donald, afterwards Major of the 92nd Regiment. Lieutenant M'Donald having asked what brought him there, answered, "You know that when I engaged to be a soldier, I promised to be faithful to the King and to you; the French are coming, and while I stand here, neither bullet or bayonet shall touch you except through my body." Lieutenant M'Donald had no particular claim to the generous devotion of this trusty follower, further than that which never failed to be binding on the true Highlander. He was born on his Officer's estates, where he and his forefather had been treated with kindness;-he was descended of the same family; and when he enlisted, he promised to be a faithful soldier. PEDESTRIANISM. In the year 1777, a running footman, famed for pedestrian exploits, was kept by a very respectable family in Dungannon. One evening, a military gentleman, who had dined with the man's master, made a bet over his wine, that he would find a soldier in his regiment, who would outstrip the footman in a race from Dungannon to Armagh, and back again. On the succeeding day, when he began to reflect on the wager which he had so rashly made, he regretted it much, being then perfectly aware that there was not a man in the regiment to which he belonged, at all celebrated for pedestrian exploits. However, having consulted with his brother officers; the soldiers, part of whom lay at Armagh, part in Dungannon and in its neighbourhood, were at different times drawn up in companies, races were run, and the victors in each seperate company were brought together, and then started against one another. An active fellow named Venter, was found to outstrip all his competitors with the greatest ease. This man during three weeks, which preceded the day on which the race was to be decided, was daily trained, and when the important time arrived, was in complete wind and strength, The famous footman and he started together in Dungannon. In fifty-six minutes Venter made his appearance in the city of Armagh dressed in a white frock, with his arms decorated with ribbons, where he ascended half way up the market-street, ran round the cross stone, and then proceeded down the hill on his return to Dungannon. In another hour he arrived in Dungannon, having completely distanced his competitor, and having left even the horseman behind, who had started with him to witness the race. The distance from Dungannon to Armagh, by Charlemont, is at least ten and a half irish miles; so that the space run over in an hour and fifty-six minutes, was twenty-one irish miles. JOUET BIRRIJ Of the 2nd Hussars, King's German Legion. AFTER the battle of Albuera, when the 2nd Hussars were covering the retreat of the British Army, Jouf Birrij a native of Switzerland, private in this regiment, was taken prisoner by a party of french lancers and escorted into Seville, where he remained for some time; and to his great credit and honour, in a very short time persuaded 523 Germans who were then serving in different regiments in the French service in Spain, to join the British Army; and whom he conducted safely to Gibraltar, from whence he was sent with them to the recruiting depot in the Isle of Wight. Captain Bock, to whom he delivered these men, was much pleased at his great enterprize, and promoted him to the rank of serjeant. INDIVIDUAL HEROISM. (From Simpson's Topography of the Field of Waterloo.) THERE were not wanting some striking instances of individual heroism at Waterloo.-General Halket had a brother in the field, who was colonel of a Hanoverian corps, or a regiment of the German legion; a trait of spirit is related of him which has few examples in modern warfare, and is not exceeded by the far famed achievement of Robert Bruce, in his short combat with Sir Henry Bohun, in that memorable battle, which stood foremost on history's brightest page, till Waterloo was fought. A French general was giving his orders with great confidence to a large body of troops, and had come to their front unattended. Colonel Halket made a dash at him at full gallop; and putting a pistol to his breast, seized his horse's reins, and brought him off from the very beards of his wonder-struck soldiers! I had the good fortune to spend an evening at the Hague with the mother and sister of these gallant men, from whom, it is needless to observe, I heard not one word of their deeds; which were quite new to me when I arrived at Brussels. FATAL EFFECTS OF FEAR. ONE of the officers of Haslar Hospital being dangerously ill; a medical gentleman who was attending him, had occasion about two o'clock in the morning to send the nurse from the officer's quarters, to the dispensary: the weather being bad, the nurse wrapped herself round with a piece of red baize, with which she covered in part a candle and lanthorn to prevent the light being blown out, as the wind was very high. The rays of the light issuing from the red covering, to the imagination of a sentry, at a distance she appeared a terrific spectre; and as she approached him, his fear so increased, that he ran from his post with haste to the guard room, where in about half an hour he expired. ORDERLY DRAGOON. IN one of the battles in the Peninsula, one of Lord Wellington's orderly dragoons had his horse shot under him; the man exclaimed, "Good God! what am I to do? my Lord will be very angry if he sees me without a horse; upon this, with the utmost sangfroid, he rushed into the midst of a party of french dragoons and knocked one of them off his horse, which he immediately mounted and returned to Lord Wellington; followed him the remainder of the day on the french horse, with the french accoutrements, trappings, &c. CAPTAIN GILLESPIE, (AFTERWARDS MAJOR GENERAL GILLESPIE.) IN 1794, during the blockade of Port au Prince, by the English, it was thought proper to send a flag of truce to the commissioner, Santhonax, demanding a surrender of the place. The mission, from the character of the man, was dangerous, but it was readily undertaken by Captain Gillespie and Captain Rowley of the navy, both of whom were fired at, in attempting to swim to the shore with their swords in their mouths. They however landed without being injured, but were made prisoners and hurried before the governor, who had so little respect for the customary usage of civilized warfare, as to charge these gallant officers with being spies, and threatening in that splenetic mood to put them to death. In this critical moment, Captain Gillespie perceiving some emblem of Freemasonry about the person of the commissioner, and being himself a member of that fraternity, a sudden thought occurred to him of making one of the signs peculiar to the order, and that in a way which could not be overlooked by the irritated republican; the intimation being luckily understood, an instantaneous change took place on the countenance and deportment of the governor, |