360 Life of Andrew Jackson. 



41 Now we, the undersigned, serving in that army, and actually 

 present, and through whom all orders to the troops were promul- 

 gated, do, in justice to the memory of that distinguished officer, who 

 commanded and led the attack, the whole tenor of whose life was 

 marked by manliness of purpose and integrity of view, most unequi- 

 vocally deny that any such promise was ever held out to the army, 

 or that the watchword asserted to have been given out was ever 

 issued; and further, that such motives could never have actuated 

 the man who, in the discharge of his duty to his king and country, 

 so eminently upheld the character of a true British soldier. 



"That a refutation of the above calumnies not having before ap- 

 peared, is solely to be attributed to their not having come to the 

 knowledge of the undersigned that they existed, until the work from 

 which they are taken was given to the public in the present year, 

 1833. 



" (Signed) JOHN LAMBERT, Lieut. -General. 



JOHN KEANE, Lieut.-General. 



W. THORNTON, Major-General. 



EDW. BLAKENEY, Major-General. 



ALEX. DICKSON, Colonel. 



Deputy Adjt.-Gen. Royal Artillery." 



After the battle of the 8th January our troops were re-embarked 

 without further molestation, and the campaign in the lower country 

 being now at an end, the saviour of his country returned in the month 

 of March to domestic life upon his farm in Tennessee. 



In 1821, upon the purchase of the Floridas from the crown of 

 Spain, Jackson was appointed governor of those provinces, and in!8'28 

 he was elected President of the United States of America. His con- 

 duct in that great station on the questions of the Tariff, the Bank, 

 and the Indian tribes, it comes not within our province to describe. 



In person, General Jackson is tall and thin, whilst his manners are 

 familiar and have nothing of the sternness which has sometimes been 

 supposed. His wife has been dead for many years, and left him no 

 issue, nor is it probable that his own constitution, exhausted by the 

 toils of war and the fatigues of his political career, will endure to a 

 very old age. It cannot be disputed that his history, when completed 

 by his death, will be that of one of the most illustrious warriors and 

 statesmen to be found in the annals of time. 



Of relations, this distinguished personage has now absolutely none. 

 His niece, an amiable lady, the wife of Mr. Donaldson, a gentleman 

 in office at Washington, has died within the last six months, and the 

 general is now entirely alone in the world. His own sojourn upon 

 earth is supposed to be rapidly drawing to a close, for an habitual 

 expectoration of blood has been thought to forbid the probability of 

 his even surviving to the close of his presidential term of office, which 

 expires in the spring of the present year. 



