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meant endeavours, though his views have since received ample 

 confirmation ixom the valuable ' Returns of Sickness and Mortality 

 in the Colonies,' drawn up by Colonel Tulloch. Eeturning home, 

 he was quartered in various parts of England until 1804, when the 

 69th was ordered to India ; and as his health would not allow him 

 to proceed thither, after trying in vain to exchange into the Guards 

 or the cavalry, he was obliged to retire for a time on half-pay. 



In 1810 Colonel Brisbane was appointed Adjutant-General at 

 Canterbury, but he longed to join his old acquaintance, the Duke 

 of Wellington, and, in consequence of his urgent applicatrons, in 

 1812 he was made Brigadier- General, and proceeded to the Pen- 

 insula. There he was posted to the third division, commanded by 

 his friend Sir Thomas Picton, and with it he served until the close 

 of the war. Then he was sent to America, where he succeeded in 

 causing the war on the Canadian frontier to be carried on accord- 

 ing to the usages of civilized nations (which had not been the case 

 before), and next served in France in the army of occupation. 

 He had arrived in England just too late to share in the glories of 

 Waterloo, but he was sent with twelve regiments to reinforce his 

 old commander, who, when he inspected them at Paris, exclaimed, 

 " i/" / had had these men at Waterloo, I should have wanted no Prussians.'* 



With the return of the army from France, in 1818, the services 

 of Sir Thomas in the field came to a close. In 1819 he married 

 Anna Maria, the heiress of Sir Henry Hay Makdougall, of Makers- 

 toun, Eoxburghshire, Bart., by whom he had two sons and two 

 daughters, who all preceded him to the grave. In 1821, after 

 holding for a short time the command of the troops in the south of 

 Ireland, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, where 

 he found a wide field for the exercise of his active and benevolent 

 mind. He introduced the culture of the vine, sugar-cane, cotton, 

 tea, and tobacco; he imported horses, and thus so improved the 

 breed that the colony can now supply cavalry horses for India ; he 

 did much to procure for it trial by jury and representative institu- 

 tions, which it now enjoys. He encouraged, and liberally sup-' 

 ported from his own means, all religious and charitable institu- 

 tions ; in his treatment of the convicts he abolished harassing and 

 vexatious punishments, which he felt only irritated instead of re- 

 forming ; and he first granted tickcts-of -leave to the well-conducted, 

 which gave a supply of much-needed labourers to the free colonists, 

 the result of which was that at the close of his government, in 1820, 

 the quantity of land under cultivation had been more than doubled. 



