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XVIII. They were not accepted. Afte* 

 the king had left Paris, Vandamme re- 

 paired thither, and presented himself before 

 Napoleon, who made him a peer of France, 

 and commandant of the second division of 

 the army. Subsequently, in June, 1815, 

 he commanded the third corps cTarmte, 

 under General Grouchy, whose conduct 

 became the object of heavy suspicion and 

 censure. Vandamme, however, was emi- 

 nently successful at the attack of Wavres, 

 after the battle of Fleurus, and his troops 

 were in actual pursuit, ^Vhen intelligence 

 reached him of the defeat of Buonaparte at 

 Waterloo. The tables thus turned, he was 

 in danger of being crushed by superior 

 numbers ; but with excellent conduct, he 

 effected his retreat, sustaining scarcely any 

 loss. General Vandamme occupied Mont- 

 rouge, Meudon, Vanvres, and Issey. Some 

 of the generals offered him the command of 

 the army, which he declined, and afterwards 

 retired behind the Loire. There he 

 mounted the white cockade, and exhorted 

 his troops to submission. 



The ordonnance of January 17th, 1816, 

 having obliged General Vandamme to quit 

 France, he retired to Ghent, the birth-place 

 of his wife. Afterwards, he resided on his 

 own beautiful estate at Cassel ; where, a few 

 years since, he erected an asylum for old 

 men, and restored several tracts of land to 

 husbandry purposes in that neighbourhood, 

 by the construction of dykes. Latterly, 

 General Vandamme's residence was again 

 at Ghent. About three weeks previously to 

 his death, and shortly before the commence- 

 ment of the revolution of 1830, he went to 

 France for the purpose of exercising his 

 rights as an elector. 



ADMIRAL SIR C. M. POLE. 



Sir Charles Morice Pole, Bart., of Al- 

 denham Abbey, Herts., Admiral of the 

 Red Squadron, and Knight Grand Cross of 

 the Bath, was a member of the noble house 

 of Pole, baronets of Shute, in the county of 

 Devon. His grandfather, the Rev. Carolus 

 Pole, rector of St. Breoek, in Cornwall, was 

 the fourth son of Sir John Pole, third 

 baronet of Shute, by Anne, youngest 

 daughter of Sir William Morice, Secretary 

 of State to Charles II. His father, Regi- 

 nald Pole, Esq., of Stoke Damorrell, in 

 Devonshire, married Anne, second daugh- 

 ter of John Francis Buller, Esq., of Mervell, 

 in Cornwall. By this marriage Sir C. M. 

 Pole was the second son. His elder brother, 

 Reginald Pole, who assumed the additional 

 surname of Carew, in compliance with the 

 will of Sir Coventry Carew, of Anthony, in 

 Cornwall, who filled the office of Under 

 Secretary of State for the Home Depart- 

 ment, during Mr. Addington's adminis- 

 tration. 



Charles Morice Pole was born on the 

 18th of January, 1757 ; and, having been 

 educated at the Royal Naval Academy, at 

 Portsmouth, he entered the naval service 



of his country. Through the various sub- 

 ordinate ranks of that service, he passed 

 with great credit : he was a lieutenant 

 early, and a post captain in 1770' During 

 the American war, he commanded a frigate, 

 in which, by the capture of numerous valu- 

 able prizes, and by other services, he greatly 

 distinguished himself. 



In 1792, Captain Pole married Henriette, 

 daughter of John Goddard, Esq., of Wood- 

 ford Hall, Essex, and niece of the wealthy 

 Henry Hope, Esq., of Amsterdam ; who, 

 on his death, left Sir Charles a noble 

 legacy, and a large fortune to each of his 

 two daughters, Henrietta Maria Sarah, and 

 Anna Maria. Of these, the elder was mar- 

 ried, in 1821, to William Stuart, Esq., 

 only son of his Grace the late Hon. and 

 most Rev. William, Archbishop of Armagh, 

 and grandson of John, Earl of Bute. 



In 1795, Captain Pole was promoted to 

 the rank of Rear-Admiral ; in 1801, to be 

 a Vice-Admiral, and, in 1805, to be Ad- 

 miral of the Red. In consideration of his 

 professional services as much, perhaps, in 

 consequence of his high ministerial and 

 other connections he was, on the 12th of 

 September, 1801, advanced to the dignity 

 of a baronet. In 1803, he was brought into 

 parliament for the borough of Newark, in 

 Nottinghamshire; and, in 180G, during 

 Earl St. Vincent's presidency at the Ad- 

 miralty Boards, he was one of the junior 

 lords. He was then appointed president of 

 a board to reform the naval expenditure, 

 and he brought in, and carried through par- 

 liament a bill to remove the chest at Chat- 

 ham, (an institution and fund for the relief 

 of wounded seamen,) to Greenwich ; a 

 measure of great importance to the navy. 

 In 1807 and 1808, Sir Charles was member 

 of parliament for Plymouth ; and, after- 

 wards, he sat for Yarmouth, in the Isle of 

 Wight. On the establishment of his pre- 

 sent Majesty's household, as Duke of Cla- 

 rence, Sir Charles Pole was appointed one 

 of the grooms of the bed-chamber to His 

 Royal Highness ; an office whjch he con- 

 tinued to hold till the accession of Wil- 

 liam IV., when he was appointed Equerry 

 to his Majesty, and immediately afterwards, 

 naval Aide-de-Camp to the King, and 

 Master of the Robes, vice Lord Mount- 

 charles. 



Of these honours, Sir C. M. Pole had 

 but a brief enjoyment. He died on the 

 Cth of September, at his seat, Aldenham 

 Abbey, in the 74th year of his age. 



LADY THURLOW. 



Mary Catherine, Lady Thurlow, died at 

 Southampton, on the 28th of September, 

 having survived her husband, Edward, 

 second Baron Thurlow, only about fifteen 

 months. This lady remembered by many 

 of our readers as Miss Bolton, an actress of 

 no mean celebrity was the eldest daughter 

 of Mr. James Richard Bolton, a wine-mer- 

 chant, if we forget not, somewhere not far 



