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made Governor of Sierra Leone, and held the 

 appointment for about three years. He after- 

 wards served in the peninsular war, and was 

 engaged in the battle of Orthes, in Spain. 

 In 1814, he went out to India, as a Lieutenant 

 in the 17th Regiment of Dragoons, and re- 

 mained there for some years. The intrepidity of 

 his character was marked by his journey overland 

 from India in 1821, accompanied by his lady 

 and their infant son. His Reminiscences of their 

 residence in the Persian Gulph, and the informa- 

 tion he obtained, through the means of his fellow- 

 traveller, on the interior of Oriental Families, to 

 which none but a female could have access, are 

 detailed in an interesting account introduced into 

 the article in the Westminster Review for January 

 1826,* on Eraser's Narrative of a Journey into 

 Khorasan, in the years 1821 and 1822. On 

 Col. Thompson's return through Egypt, in the 

 latter year, he brought with him a fine frag- 

 ment, now deposited in the British Museum, of 

 the tomb of Gornou, on the site of ancient The- 

 bes, which had been discovered by Belzoni. 

 Since his return to this country, he has devoted 

 himself to literary pursuits. Of his works, which 

 exhibit evident marks of genius, education, and 

 originality of thought, many appeared at first in 

 the Westminster Review, of which he became 



