XIV MEMOIR. 



regiment, and that I should consequently 

 enjoy the assistance of the surgeon to it, 

 a man of considerable experience, but of 

 no school education. On this adventure 

 I embarked early in 1779, and for some 

 time felt myself pleasantly situated in the 

 regiment ; but the colonel, who had been 

 promoted to his command, merely from 

 being an officer in the Dutch guards, and 

 bearing a Scotch name, Hamilton, but 

 scarcely able to speak English, soon began 

 to find fault with my conduct, and in con- 

 sequence once confined me for two days, 

 in the main guard of the garrison, and #. 

 second time, for several days, in its pre- 

 vost, or military -prison. This behaviour, 

 it may well be supposed, could not be 

 borne by a high-spirited Englishman. I 

 therefore resigned my commission, and 

 upon the very day of receiving my dis- 

 missal from the service, I attacked him 

 openly in the street, and dared him to 



