INTRODUCTION xxix 



the work of a niau ol luituraliy strong, though 

 uncultivated talents, of great observation, and un- 

 inipeached integrity. In early life, he served as 

 aide-de-camp in the German AVar under the Mar- 

 quis of Granby, to whom his activity and energy 

 rendered him very useful; and it is probable he 

 might have risen to considerable eminence in his 

 profession had he not, as soon as peace left him 

 at liberty to follow his inclination, preferred to 

 military idleness, an adventurous life amidst the 

 snows of Labrador. 



*' In the latter |)art of liis life he accej^ted the 

 office of barrack-master at Nottingham, which he 

 held for many years, till finding himself too infirm 

 for a service of that nature, he retired to Mans- 

 field in the vear 1817. 



*' His energy of mind continued to the last, and 

 only a few months before his death, he w^as busied 

 in proposing to the Hudson's Bay Compan}^, vari- 

 ous plans and contrivances for hunting, &c. and 

 nothing but increasing infirmity prevented his 

 offering his services to put them in execution. 



*' His features were handsome, and his complex- 

 ion blooming. His Herculean frame I'ctained, 

 even in age, a peculiar air of dignit}^ and although 

 a great part of his life liad l)een s])(mi1 in liardy 

 exercises and rough pursuits, his maimers in com- 

 pany were courtly, and his ('(^u^•('rsation agree- 

 a})l('. Though (liffering so matorinlly in politics 

 with his ])rothei- [Major John], whoso forl)earance 

 on these subjects he eertaiul}' did not f.-iil some- 

 times to exercise, theii* nmtual attachment con- 



