AND TEE DUKES OF BICEMOND. 209 



On the morning of the day when the present Duke 

 (then Earl of March) came of age, he was presented 

 with a costly and elegant piece of Plate by the 

 Dowager Duchess of Richmond. It was a singular 

 coincidence that the 27th of February should have 

 been likewise the anniversary of the Battle of Orthez, 

 fought in 1814, when his father was dangerously 

 wounded and nearly lost his life. 



