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Arragon, he received a royal order 

 from the Supreme Junta to resume 

 the assistantship of Seville, and his 

 functions as member of the su- 

 preme council of war. His death, 

 though naturally to have been ex- 

 pected from his advanced years 

 and increasing infirmities, was no 

 doubt accelerated by the incessant 

 labours to which he devoted him- 

 self since the commencement of 

 the contest with France. Before, 

 and after his arrival at Seville, 

 every interval which he could 

 snatch from his official duties was 

 employed in digesting a plan of a 

 new constitution for Spain. His 

 papers are said to furnish, upon 

 this subject, an inestimable treasure 

 of historical and political Jcnow- 

 ledge, applied to the exigencies of 

 his fellow-citizens with all the dis- 

 crimination of a statesman and 

 philosopher. Far from verifying 

 the assertions of certain persons 

 that the Spanish people have no- 

 thing farther in contemplation in 

 this struggle than the expulsion of 

 the French, and the re-establish- 

 ment of the old government, the 

 marquis de Ustariz used to take 

 every opportunity of inculcating 

 a contrary sentiment, " We shall 

 liave done nothing," he frequently 

 and emphatically observed ; " we 

 shall have done nothing, if, before 

 we finish this war, we have not a 

 constitution which shall rid us for 

 ever of tyrants.'' 



At sea, Capt. C. W. Boyes, com- 

 mander of his majesty's ship Statira. 

 When in his 16th year, he lost a 

 leg in the battle of the memorable 

 1st of June; and after a constant 

 prosecution of the most honourable 

 services, he was cut off in the prime 

 of life, after a short illness, in the 

 prospect of the first distinctions of 



that profession, which was his pride, 

 and the full attainment of every 

 other happiness ; leaving, to lament 

 their irreparable loss, a most af- 

 flicted widow and two infant chil- 

 dren. His remains were interred 

 with military honours, at Halifax, 

 Nova Scotia, on the2jth November. 



At Antigua, in the 23rd year of 

 his age, major George Gordon, of 

 the8thWestLidiaregiment,nephew 

 of col. Gordon, military secretary 

 to the earl of Harrington. His 

 career was short, but brilliant. He 

 served in the expedition toZealand, 

 was aid-dc-camp to general An- 

 struther, in the memorable battle 

 of Vimiera; and commanded, with 

 great credit to himself, the 6th 

 regiment, during the campaign in 

 Spain, which corps was the last of 

 the British army that embarked at 

 Corunna. An higher eulogiutn 

 cannot be pronounced upon major 

 Gordon, than to say that he was 

 patronised by those great and good 

 men, the late Sir John Moore and 

 general Anstruther, who honoured 

 him with their friendship. Though 

 snatched away at such an earl)^ age, 

 he lived long enough to gain the 

 affectionate esteem, as his imma- 

 ture death has occasioned the deep- 

 est regret, of all who knew him. 

 He has left a disconsolr.te mother 

 and sister to deplore his loss. 



Of a wound received in a duel 

 with Mr. Powell, of Devonshire 

 place. Lord Viscount Falkland. The 

 quarrel which produced this fatal 

 meeting, originated in lord Falk- 

 land's addressing Mr. Powell, with 

 whom he was on terms of intimacy 

 by a nick-name, and persisting so 

 to do, after he had taken offence at 

 it, in a large company at Sleevens's 

 coffee-house in Bond-street. Hence 

 ensued the challenge, and the sub- 



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