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his troops fal- old world, without bringing reproach upon the prin- seas, and fell in the moment of victory, at the close het and ciples of human liberty by which we are governed? of three days' action (renewed by him ench day) We say nothing of probable alliances against us, nor wit Ly Piedmontaise, an enemy's ship of far sú- Era of the confticis with other powers which might folperior force, which was then captured, dofony low, for if our people decide upon adopting the surit He died in his twenty-seventh year, but full of well of conquest of the worst manarchies, they early glonger and by a vote of Parliament, a menament in imperish-- fint leaders to combat a world 34, What wo St. Paul's Cathedral records his achievements, and deplayed by our whole have most to fear is the effect of this spirit upon the approbation of his country. history. Individual acts ourselves and our liberties. If we seize and hold of heroes were performed which will render the nation against its will, we become oppressors, and and joined his regiment in Canada before he had Sir Henry Hardingo entered the army young, Worth has corored finn- this spirit, reacting upon ourselves cannot fill to attained thenge of fifteen. He returned to England anadiplared in the cap produce oppressors in our own raħks, who will at
at the Peace of Amiens, oblained the rank of Capt portant ferts, will vie in tempt to seize and hold t-if they can Political in the 57th Regiment in 1804, and haing Become a These of Wellington and military lenders may contemplate this natural student at the Royal Military College, under the has won new honors course of events with high hopes of self aggrandizolate General Jarry, prosecuted his studies there with very and skilful maneuver. ment, but the people of this country, on the coun- all possible, diligence and success; and having ac igliest praise. – Captain P. F. trary, view it with alarni, Ware the people of Mex-cardingly made great proficiency in the more scien
unken of The Texan and
ico desirous of annexation, it would be for the ci fific branches of his profission, was select to fill ru gamed Imperishable renown. tizens of the United States to say whether the Union an appointment upon the Quartermaster General's Baxan pidemen, with axes and spades, picked should be consummated. No such opportunity is staff of the expeditions which proceedal to the coast from a house to another, and drove the Me open to either people, however, if military conquests of Spain ik 1807, under Sir Bront Speucor. In 1808, 1ices Infantry from street to street. As they gain- Hance our anxiety to see this was terminated, when Portugal rose to throw off the French yoke, he hages, the dread rifle was made to do its work. Honce the univeral desire, amongs people of Sir Brent Spencer's corps was united to that which The Alexia were driven from the streets and house this country, for an early and an
cebad sailed from Ireland under Sir Arthur Wallesley A exigin cannon was borne on the shoul-
---Ibid. ders of cor weg to the roof of a house and made to
(now Duke of Wellington) and Sir H. Hardinge was actively employed in the successful campaign pety upon the enemy. When the flag of truce was tcoaved and the capitulation agreed to, the whole
We hope by the time the armisticos would deve which expelled the army of General Junot, and was army we disappointed. It was only then that they expired of self, we shall eco our triumphant flag present in the battles of Raleia and Vimiors; in the www beginning to tell upon the Atezienus. Proying at Chihuahan, at Saltillo, and the nows. latter of these he was severely wounded: Notwith vour to thus, they had been fighting the protected speculations are to be believed, perhaps at standing which, in the close of the same year, having by their breamworks, and at every disadvantage. Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, and at Tamboen pitched upon to carry important despatches Now they had got amongst them and were giving picg. At all events, we go for action, energy and from Government to General Sir John Moore, them a does which was operating effectually. TheScess-always prepared, however, to negotiate performed the journey with singular rapidity, hat of killed and wounded given in the Flag is not for an honorable peace; but declining any armistice, through many difficulties, and delivered his charge until a treaty of peace bas been ratified.--Washing- | to the General in the neighbourhood of Benevente.
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corps of cavalry, Sir Henry Hardinge performed the duties of that post with his accustomed ability and distiction, especially at the athair of Castrejou, on the 18th, and in the battle of Salamanca, on the 221 of July, for which he received the malal distinction. During the winter of this year here for his distinguished conduct and the services ceived the military order of the Tower nud Sword,
and cisive camping of 1818, in which the Duke had rendered throughout the war.In the belli of Welington may be said to have cleared Spain of duties of Quartermaster-General of the Portage the French, Sir Henry Hardinge, still doing de
army, accompanied Marshal Lord Beresford is the advance to Vittoria; and in that battle, on 21st of June, in the midst of his usund exemplary exertions, was severely wounded in the body. Ele received the medal of distinction granted upon that occasion, He now received the rank of Colonel in the Por tugnen service; and, after a short stay at
Vittoria, he followed the army, and resumed his duties, and again performed them in the battles of the Pyrenees on the 27th, 28th, und 30 July, and in the subse quent operations, although his wound was still open, causing him great pain, and subjecting him to a severe surgical operatich daring the course of these exertion.For these battles ho was again mentioned by Lord Beresford in orders, and e
the meda Lol distinction granted upon that occa sion. Ide subsequently served at the siege of St, S bastan, and the operations of passing the Bilasson, -Ele was present in the battle of Nivelle on the 10th of November, and those of the Nive on the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th December Fis conduct was, ne usual, conspicuously able and gal lant, and elled forth the most pointed praise and elogium in the Marshel's general order of thanks of the 25th December of the same year-Sir Henry Hardinge was now appointed to the command of a Portuguese brigade of artillery, with which he proceeded to distinguish himself in the oportions of the campaign of 1814. In the affairs upon the Adour, and in crossing the Gaves, and especially near Pallas, an February 15, where, in conjunction with General Byng brigade, he won some stron gly occupied height with the bayonet, and in the most gallant style, from very superior numbers of the enemy, and for which he received the particular thanks
of Lord Beresford in his general order open that occasion,
"He was then engaged in the battle of Orthes, on the 27th of February, for which he received the medal of destinction (being the “minih” confer. red upon him in the course of this war), and in the subsequent affairs and operations, concluding with the battle of Toulouse, an the 10th of April, which Was followed by the armistice and peace of 1014. He was again pointedly thanked for his emin at Services in Lord Beresford's géneral orders at the clogn of the Gappaign.
«During the whole Peninsular war Sir Henry Hardinge never suffered himself to be absent from his duty by sickness, leave of absance, or any other cause, excepting the very short periods (in neither case sufficient for that purpose) which he was com at Vimiera and Vittorin, After this campaign his pelled to devote in the cure of his wounds received
Soveralyn was graciously pleased to mark his sense of the signal services he had performed, by confir ring upon him a company in the Grenadiet Regi
In this year Sir Henry Hardinge accompanied mander of the Order of the Bath.
Vienna, and in 1815, when Buonaparte, returne his Noble Friend, Lord Stewart, to the Congress of from Elba, and the war broke out anew, the Duke of Wellington unmediately placed him at the head- quarters of the Prussian army, under Marshal Blu cher, with the rank of Brigadier-General, as a uni litary ambassador and a confidential officer,
Sir John Moore, it is well known, remained him "Newspaper speculation" finds itself as much at self with the rear guard of his army through the The Armistice of eight weeks conceded by Ge- fault in attempting to fathom on the movements of whole of the arduous retreat to Corunna, which peral Taylor to a foe who had already retired from the government as it does in endeavoring to predict ensued and having attached Sir Henry Hardinge their strongest defences, is one of the most unac countable of General Taylor's delays. It is the may be expected to participate.
the result of any engagement in which the Navy to his person, he accompanied him in all those sovere Wo in common affairs which every day took place with the enemy's pare unaccountable as he admits in his despatches with several newspapers, called on the government advanced guards; and finally, was the only officer that it is contrary to instructions. His waiting as early as Alay last to sand an army of fifty thou-near that great and lamented General, when, at the moothest Matamoras for wogons to be built, instead sand men into Mexico at once. That suggestion battle of Corunna, in January, 1800, he received his of using the mules of the country for trasportation, is now boing acted upon. We have called on the death wound, and fell in the arms of victory.—Sir enabled the Mexicans to concentrats in force at officers of the Navy to demonstrate their power. Henry had just returned from ordering a movement Monterey, and construct those batteries which our We have demanded the capture of Vera Cruz and of the troops which the General had despatched him citizen soldiers won at such a cost of life. But that Tampin, hit the hereditary aristocracy of the to affect, and was in the act of reportinguts execu. error was as nothing compared to the tremendous quarter deck has thus far buld it inconvenient to tion to him, when he was struck by the fatal hall. vantage ground gained by the enemy in this uncon- do more thaw run away from Alvarado and wreck Hs supported the dying here at this trying moment; ceivable eight weeks of delay. It's been decla ind
the Truxton. One monster ship is carefully housed and by the desire of his afflicted family wrote, for by persons knowing the country thoroughly, that
at Norfolk, others are laid up in ordinary, and some their information, the clear and pathetic account of the mistake of missing the enemy at Point Isabel, dozen caipiadores or captains are stowed away in that solemn and impressive scene, which is annex- and then idling until wagons were built, brought Navy Yards, Bureaux and other "land lubber "po-ed to Mr. Moore's narrative of the General's Ihat upon the treasury a needless expense of a million sitions, in which their precious bodies are quite free campaign and death."Returning to England with per week. The armistice at Alonterey will cost the from danger, while their pay continues. country mode, nearly a million of dollars per day. the volunteers, the citizen soldiers, are planting our
Meantime the army, he received the rank of Major; and in the month of March, in the same year, went to Portu. The whole extent of the sacrifice can only be uning on the ruemy's citidels, storming forts, captur- gal with Marchal Beresford, who had been intrust. terstood with a knowledge of the country. Mon- ingust territories, reducing, olive and conquering ed with the organization of the Portugueses army, terey stands, to speak in a military view, on the
If our volunteers have delayed action in a to aid in the momentous struggle then about to farthest verge of the region in which large masscs single instance, they have been compelled to do so
ensue, and from which may be dated the delivery can be moved,
A little beyond it is trenched by by their superiors of "the regular service," We of Europe from the despotism of Buntparis. The beep baraneas (as the Mexicans call their deep val-
wish the Navy could vindicate its claims to the high Marshal appointed bim Lieutenant-Colonel in, and lies with perpendicular sides) which can only be reputation our land forces have earned for them. Deputy-Quartermaster-General of the army; and he traversed in the most favorable places by the strong, sure footed native mules; and by giving the Mex-
immediately became, and was ir ugh the whole Twenty five millions of dollars have already been icans even-twenty days to fall back with their light expended in this war, a large portion of which has and good order which were so effectully establish
war, one of the main instruments of the discipline artillery and choose their own position among the
gone into the hands of our enemy. Instead of pured in it, and of the brilliant and contiued triumphs lofty, impregnable, precipices of these defiles, they chasing supplies from his allies, and paying fiva pri. with which that discipline was crowned. In this may almeas defy the art and power of man to dis lodge them in eight werks they may make of
nes for every thing required by our troops, it should capacity he served with the right of the allied pray every mountain table a Gibraltar) Ten of those ing upon the property of those who sustain him.
now he our object to reduce his resources by love, i under the Marshal at the passage of the Upper mont of Guards, and creating him a Knight Cum. wild rancheros, each defending as he believes his the public and privato l-operly of encuiet, as well nera! Loison, and in the subsequent opera ins -
Douro, in fare of and driving back the corps of Glu-, women, his children and his aliars agains: the out- rages of ferocios a heretics," will maintain one of Every city that opposes cur forces, should be levied borders of Gallicia. For his conduct upon this oc- as their territories, are legitimate spoils of victory.gainst the enemy during the pursuit of him into the those passes against a regiment, and every mile we Dow gain beyond Saltillo will cost na auch blood, and in case of formilable resistance, a ransom casion he was mentioned in the Marshal's despate should be demanded na the only condition upon and money as would have sufficed to carry our arms
ches, and thanked in his general orders issued at to Zacatecas. There was but one way; all history horrors of war.
which the enemy can be permitted to escape the Giuzo May 20, 1809,He then accompanied the shows that large invading armies are lost under their
Had Matamoras been reduced to
Marshal in his command of the army of observation wt. cuambrous weight when entangled in a moun reluctant to fire upon us from behind their door posts played in many important duties of that period. ---- ashes the Rancheros of Monterey might have been in Castile,during the Duke of Wellington's advanc tainous region; and without pause, without delay, and window sills.
into Spain and the battle of Talavera, and was em- Under any circumstances, they than they did They proved to us that we have
The next campaign was the famous defensive one nothing to gain by conciliation and forbearance to ward the Mexican people. Nor can we hope to
the infinitely superior forces
of Marshal Massen. annex Mexico" to this Union by war.
In this, the zeal, intelligence, and activity of Sir We may
Henry Hardinge were very conspicuous demnity for the war, but to ospture and retain that bis official duties, as in the various affairs of the ad. the 16th of June (which was followed by that of retain the country north of the 25th parallel. as in-
upon many Continuing with the Prussian army, he was in occasions, as well in the arrangements belonging to the obstinate and sanguinary battle of Ligny, on nation, contrary to the will of a people who will not retreat to the lines of Lisbon; and especially in the proofs of great military talent throughout the day be a useless waste of life and treasure.
posts, and other operations before and after Waterloo on the 18th), and after having given appreciate the blessings of free government, would at least will have been lost. At the very lowest alternative, therefore, is to conquer peace as rapidly cloned by Lord Beresford in his despatches to theed much to retard the success of the enemy, his
Our only battle of Busace, after which victory he was men
in the suggestion of several movements which tend cramputation, three weeks, every day of which will be worth a walled city to the strength of Mexico-enemy's resources to our own use-seize his trea
as possible. To do that, we must appropriate our Portuguese Regency, and recommended by the left hand was shattered by a cannon ball at Mar- every day off which will cost a million of dollars to
Duke of Wellington for the medal of distinction shal Blucher's side, whose unaffected grief for the this country. Yet we should blush to count the loss of specie and transmit them to Washinton, draw cordingly.In the campaign of 1811, Lord Beres in which he held this gallant Englishman.
sures, levy upon his property, capture his conductas granted upon that occasion, which he received ac misfortune was the best proof of the high opinion by dollars every hour the wasted will be marked Wife the life of a citizen. We will endeavor to hope once of his lands, and thus convince him that Peace the allied army in the Alentejo and Spanish Ee upon his gold and silver mines, feast upon the pro-
ford having the command of the separate corps of better things, but we must fear that hundreds, if not thousands, of our brave Americans have been sa.
is his best policy, Were he a maritime power, his tremadura, Sir Henry Hardings was every where rificed to "military courtesy in this fatal gift of fecated at once. Why then should we hesitate to
privată properly found on the ocean would be con distinguished, as well in the many affairs which the eight weeks to a merciles enemy.-1bid.
active operation of that period produced, as in the confiscate his private property found og land? Were siege of Badajoz, which formed a part of them, and General Taylor in the position of a commodore of at which be served, but especially for his conduct our resources. Captured ships and their cargoes where, amongst many other instances of judgment the navy, every victory would result in adding to in the memorable and glorious battle of Albuera, would be brought to New York or New Orleans, had been despatched by Lord Beresford, but had Fand presence of mind, he anticipated an order which our victorious ships. The principle of war must and prize money distributed among the crows of
not yet reached the General to whom it was sent be applied to every Mexican city that opposes the for an important movement at a progress of the army. We see no olher means of period of the battle. He was mentioned in high very pressing
if continued six months longer, may endanger that
orders and great powers of the civilized world peace which some of the prefessional warriors of unfortunate of our people. logged andifference turbed. Ind.
Mexico, for ulterior purposes, would gladly ace did ong the people in exico Having
Taylor should have pressed forward an advanced could not not have done more to annihilate ourarmy.) of 1810, in which the Duke of Wellington foiled rightly estimated his officer when he thought him
guard of hie victorious scldiers, while merved and eager for conquest, and occupied these difficult passes. Thes would he have held open the doors for the passage of his main army, and at the end of eight weeks. he would have been dictating his own terms from the rich heart of Mexico. Where will be now be at the end of eight weeks? It is true pe- remptory orders have gone from Washington to ter ninate the ill timed truce, but three precious weeks
QUEST OF Mexico An intelligent news. correspondent at Washington declares that war will terminale in the arcible an- dexation of the whole Mexican Union to this con- federacy
He believes that the population of the great valley of the Missicappi have resolved to eon- ever that rast country, and that our government can
vanced
This was an employment requiring not only firmness and military talent, but great discretion,. judgment, and conciliation. Elis Grace had very fit for this important mission, and the result fully Justified his choice.
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stump, and remained on horseback till the battle Sir Henry Hied his handkerchief round the
was over. His conduct upon this occasion had beco so meritorious, and Marshal Bulcher's report of the great service he had individually rendered so satis factory, that the Duke of Wellington devoted a se- parate Gazette (of the 30the Jane, 1815), to record his wound. his approbation of his behaviour, and his regret for
duty a little as he had done his previciis ono, al though it occasioned the amputation of his hand, of peculiar torture and distress, for in one month and from some attendant circumstances became one
He suffered this wound to detam him from his
no more control the events How leading to this re- crippling our energy and terminating a war which terms of praise, both in the despatches and general from the time he received it, he rejoined Marshal nue or the torrents of the Mississippi If such happy peace which has so long existed between the distinction granted, ale received the medal of Bulcher at Paris. He continued his duties at the
than they can stay the mountain waves of the will be produced more by the can ca ellaina to make peace,
omment
THE RIGHT HON, LORD HARDINGE, C. C. B.,
GOVERNOR GE The following liri
after the
Prussian head-quarters during the whole time of following facts will suffice to show how high his the occupation of France by the Allies, and the two conduct had placed hip in the opinion both of the Monarch, at the bead quarters of whose army he
promoted to the British rank of Lieutenant Colonel that occasion, and was The eventful campaign of 1812.commenced with the siege and capture of the fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo und Badajoz Sir Henry Hardinge served at them both, and at the latter was particularly had been distinguished in the alorm of the strong outwork La Piçarina, where, it is not too much to say, the success of that important enterprise was mainly owing to his judgment and intrepid example. He of the late Liest war septiqued in very strong terms in the report al Sir James Kempt, who commanded the smurt of the fort, and the Duke of Wellington received the medal of Iter the
of Lord he scene
crisis, serving at such a difficult and delicate.
and of that consummate Captain who com manded the allied armies.
At the Prussian review he was decorated by the King himself with the orders of Merit and of the Red Eagle, and the Duko of Wellington personally presented him with the sword which he wore, as a mark of his regard. Tue
Tong and brilliant series of services, hastily: recorded in the foregoing men or will speak for therrelves, and cou require no comment,
B. D'URBAN,"
Major General.
Hotho Lau. 9. 1820...
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