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talion of the COth ; aiul, in August, 1816, 

 Colonel of the 3d Foot, or Buffs. 



In 1809, he acted as Adjutant-General 

 in Spain ; and, in the ensuing year, he 

 published a pamphlet entitled " Remarks 

 Explanatory of the Motives which guided 

 the Operations of the British Army during 

 the late Short Campaign, 1809." 



On the 25th of July, 1809, he was pro- 

 moted to the rank of Major-General ; on 

 the 4th of June, 1814, to that of Lieute- 

 nant-General; and, in the same year, he 

 was invested with the insignia of a Knight 

 Grand Cross of the Bath. 



Sir Henry Clinton commanded a division 

 of the army in Spain ; was engaged in the 

 battles of Salamanca, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, 

 and Toulouse, and subsequently in that of 

 Waterloo ; services which entitled him to 

 wear the honorary cross, clasp, and medal, 

 for those battles. After the victory of Wa- 

 terloo, he also received the Orders of Maria 

 Theresa, St. George of Russia, and Wilhelm 

 of the Netherlands. 



Sir Henry Clinton was, for some time, 

 Adjutant-General in Ireland ; and, through 

 his connection with the Duke of Newcas- 

 tle's family, he sat during two Parliaments, 

 as member for Boroughbridge. Sir Henry 

 died about the middle of December. /**axipa'. 

 



MR. WINSOR. 



FREDERICK ALBERT WINSOR, who 

 lately died in Paris, in his 68th year, was 

 the founder of the Gas light and Coke Com- 

 pany in London, and of the first gas com- 

 pany which was established in Paris : from 

 his public and persevering efforts arose these 

 and every other gas-light establishment which 

 has since been founded. 



It will be recollected that in 1803 Mr. 

 Winsor demonstrated the use to which his 

 discovery of gas-lighting might be publicly 

 applied, though many men of high scientific 

 reputation denied its practicability. His 

 first public experiments were shewn at the 

 Lyceum, in the Strand ; he afterwards 

 lighted with gas the walls of Carlton Palace 

 gardens, in St. James's Park, on the king's 

 birth-day, in 1807 ; and during 1809 and 



1810, one side of Pall Mall, from the house 

 which he then occupied in that street. His 

 house was for many years openly shewn, fit- 

 ted up with gas-lights throughout, to exhibit 

 to the legislature and the country the practi- 

 cability of his plans. 



The memorial to his late Majesty George 

 III. for a charter, and the evidence taken in 

 Parliament and before the Privy Council, 

 bear testimony to the indefatigable and un- 

 remitting zeal with which he persevered, until 

 he overcame the obstacles which prejudice 

 had raised against his efforts, and which 

 threatened to prevent the general adoption of 

 his discoveries and improvements. 



In 1812, however, a charter of incorpora- 

 tion for a gas-light and coke company was 

 obtained, and success crowned his labours ; 

 but his mind having been wholly possessed 

 with the prosecu.ion of an object of such 

 public importance, he was too regardless of 

 his own pecuniary interests, and omitted to 

 retain a legal power over the advantages 

 which resulted from his exertions : he unfor- 

 tunately trusted too much for his reward to 

 the honour of the parties with whom he was 

 engaged. 



In 1815 he extended to France the ad- 

 vantages which had attended his efforts in 

 England. There, too, he was the first to 

 establish a company and erect gas works : 

 but rival interests created other companies, 

 in defiance of patent privileges: and these 

 associations, with large capitals, undermined 

 his interests, and he again gave fortunes to 

 others which ought to have been his own 

 reward. 



It is thus that a life, which, it may truly 

 be said, has been an honour to England, has 

 been embittered, if not abridged, by cares 

 and ingratitude. After all the services which 

 he rendered to his country and to the world, 

 and the gains which individuals have realized 

 by his discoveries, the founder of gas-light- 

 ing has left no other legacy to his family 

 than the remembrance of his virtues, and of 

 those talents by which the present and future 

 generations have been and will be bene- 

 fitted : 



Sic vos non vobis. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



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ALAS ! the customary topic, the weather, takes a melancholy precedence in our pre sent 

 Report ; but sanguine hope that June would bring with it a seasonable improvement has 

 been fatally blighted, and to this metaphorical has been joined a material blight, of which 

 a great part of our corn and fruit must experience the disastrous consequences. In our last 

 we deprecated the accustomed annual visitation of that thirsty Saint Swithin ; but we have 

 been unfortunately visited by a pre-Swithin, which has deluged all the low lands, caused 

 rivers to overflow, retarded the hay-harvest, and destroyed grass to an incalculable amount. 

 As a heavy addition to this misfortune, the rains have not been associated with winds in the 

 usually rainy points of the compass, south or west, but with cold and chilling winds in the 



