_ Hing a short illness of six days. 
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181i.) 
battalion. When a little more than ten yeats 
of age, he carried the regimental colours at 
the battle of Maida, and though these were 
much torn by the enemy’s shot, he had the 
good fortune to remain uptouched. He after- 
wards setved with the battalion in Egypt, and 
as adjutant to the battalion of detachments 
from the Isle of Wight on the Walcheren 
expeditions where he unfortunately con- 
tracted the fatal disorder to which he fell a 
youthful victim. 
At the settlement of Hobart, New South 
Wales, Lieutenant.governor Collins. He 
died whilst sitting in his chair conversing 
with his surgeony who had attended him du- 
His funeral 
was attended by all the officers of the settle- 
ment, Lieut. Lord, of the marines, following 
the bier as chief mourner. Upwards of 600 
persons attended to pay the last duties of 
respect to their revered Commander. 
At the head- quarters of the Bricisharmy in 
Portugal, at Cartaxo, after a short illness, 
occasioned by an aneurism of the heart, and 
the bursting of a large tl iod-vessel, in his 
49th year, the most excellent Senor Don Pe- 
dro Caro y Sureda, Marquis de la Romana, 
Grandee of Spain, Grand Cross of the Royal 
Spanish Order of Charles LI{. and Captain- 
General of his most Christian Majesty. He 
was born in the city of Palma, in the island 
of Majorca. After an education suitable to 
his high birth, during which he made a rapid 
progress in. the learned languages, with the 
classics of which he was familiarly acquain- 
ted, emulous of his father, who died glori- 
ously in the field of honour in the expedi‘ion 
to Algiers in 1775, he began his military ca- 
reer in the Marine Guards of the Royal Navy. 
There he continued till the war of the French 
Revolution ; at which period, being the cap- 
tain of a frigate, he entered, with the rank 
of colonel, the army of Navarre, commanded 
by hisuncle, Lieut. gen. Don Ventura Caro; 
and afterwards that of Catalonia. In these 
armies, by his valour and distinguished ser- 
vices, he rose successively to the rank of lieu- 
tenant-general. In 1801 he was appointed 
captain-general of Catalonia, and president of 
the Royal Audiencia of that province; in 
which capacity he found opportunities of dis- 
playing his extensive knowledge and sound 
policy. He was atterwards appointed direc- 
tor-general of epgineers, and counsellor at 
war, The insidious plans which the tyrant 
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of Europe already cherished, led him to with- 
draw from Spain, the Marquis of la Romana 
with her best troops. In the command of 
these the marquis displayed an intelligence’ 
and delicacy which are well known, till the 
situation of his beloved country coming to his 
knowledge amid the snows of the north, from 
that moment he vowed to succour her; sur- 
mounting, with that view, a thousand dan- 
gers and difficulties. In the command of the 
army of the left, which he soon obtained, 
he executed the most skilful movements and 
retreats, suspending and frustrating the plans 
of the always superior forces of the enemy. 
By his conduct and military skill, he finally 
succeeded in expelling them from Gailicia, 
even to their own astonishment, and to the 
surprise of all who knew the small means he: 
had at his disposal, Soon after he was sum= 
moned to the Central Justa; where he pre- 
sented himself, not asa victorious general, 
but as an unassuming representative, display= 
ing all the force of his character only in that 
vote which he gave in October 1809, on the 
necessity of forming immediately a council of 
regency. On the 24th of January, 1810, 
the supreme government being dispersed by 
the entrance of the French into Andalusia, he 
returned to take the command of the army of 
Estremadura. His presence was of such great 
importance, that to it was owing the enthu- 
siasm displayed in Badajoz, and in the whole 
province. The efforts which the enemy had 
made since that time are well known,-and 
likewise the skill with which the marquis 
contrived to keep them in check, and frus= 
trate their plans, Estremadura being at last 
cleared of the enemy, and Massena having 
advanced in front of the lines at Torres 
Vedras, the marquis marched in haste, with 
two divisions of his army, and had since 
coustantly been by the side of his illustrious 
friend, Lord Wellington, who, in one of his 
official dispatches, has so justly appreciated 
his merit and virtues, and’whose eulogy will’ 
serve to mark the loss which Spain’ has 
suffered by his death, as well as the common 
cause of the allies, even though we had 
not mumerous proofs of the public enthu- 
siasm which his name and fame inspired ia 
all quartets. His body was conveyed by 
water to Lisbon, and there deposited with 
suitable honors and ceremonies, in the mo* 
nastéery of St. Jerome, till it shall be re- 
moved to Spain. 
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