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buckle it : " It is as well as it is," 

 said he, " calmly : 1 had rather it 

 should go out of the field with 

 me." He was so sensible of his 

 approaching dissolution, that he 

 said to the surgeons who offered 

 their assistance, " You can be of 

 no service to me : go to the sol- 

 diers, to whom you may be useful. 

 — You know," said he to his 

 friend Colonel Anderson, " that I 

 have always wished to die this way. 

 I hope the people of England will 

 be satisfied : I hope my country 

 will do me justice.'' The remain- 

 der of his moments were conse- 

 crated to tender remembrances, 

 and inquiries about the fate of his 

 friends. He was buried in his uni- 

 form upon the ramparts of Corun- 

 na ; where a monument to his me- 

 mory has been since raised by the 

 Marquis Romana.* A monument 

 also, in consequence of an address 

 to his Majesty by the House of 

 Commons, was ordered to be erect- 

 ed to his memory in the Cathe- 

 dral Church of St. Paul's, Lon- 

 don. 



His Royal Highness the Duke 

 of York, commander in chief of 

 the British army, which he had 

 raised to a state of the most dis- 

 tinguished excellence, while he 

 was not more attentive to discipline 

 and good order, than to the com- 

 fort of the soldiers and the good 

 of their families, in the general 

 order issued by his command, after 

 the returnof the army from Spain, 

 bestows on its late commander the 

 following just and elegantly simple 

 praise. " The life of Sir Jolm 



Moore was spent among the troops. 

 During the season of repose liis 

 time was devoted to the care anil 

 instruction of the officer and sol- 

 dier. In war, he courted service in 

 every quarter of the globe. Re- 

 gardless of personal considera- 

 tions, he esteemed that to which 

 his country called him, the post of 

 honour ! And by his undaunted 

 spirit and unconquerable persever- 

 ance, he pointed the way to victo- 

 ry. His country, the object of 

 his latest solicitude, will rear a mo- 

 nument to his lamented memory. 

 And the commander-in-chief feels 

 that he is paying the best tribute 

 to his memory, in thus holding him 

 up as an example to the armyP 



It is not to be supposed that 

 this encomium would have been 

 made on Sir John Moore by any 

 commander-in-chief, at all under 

 the influence, or of the same party 

 with the ministers of the day, from 

 whom the general had repeatedly 

 met with slights and injustice, and 

 who had discovered and loudly de- 

 clared, that he had found all things 

 in Spain the very reverse of 

 what the ministry had represented 

 them to be; and, in short, advised 

 them to send no more troops to 

 Spain. The animating breath of 

 justice is to an army what that of 

 liberty is to a state. The Duke of 

 York, therefore, elevated by his 

 royal dignity far above ministerial 

 cabals and interested views, did not 

 hesitate to hold up Sir John Moore, 

 though as it were in the teeth of 

 certain ministers, as an example to 

 the army.f It is not necessary to 



go 



• Vide Chronicle, p. 375. 



+ A very intelligent, as well as gallant, military officer (the Hon. Captain St— e, 

 in his Cursory Vk-x of the Late Admhmtration ) says : " That the whole ot tliis order is 

 so beautiful, that it deserves to be retained in the memory of every military man. It 



