364 THE FIFTH DUKE OF RICHMOND, K.G. 



ranging from 5s. to £1 for officers, while Id. was 

 all the privates were called on to pay. The testi- 

 monial was presented to the Duke of Richmond 

 at a banquet in Willis's Rooms, with Lord Saltoun 

 in the chair. It was of the following description : 

 " On the summit of a quadrangular pedestal stood 

 an allegorical group, representing the Duke of 

 Richmond directing- the attention of Britannia to 

 the merits of her military and naval forces. In 

 the centre stands his Grace, robed in the costume 

 of a Peer, holding in his left hand a memorial to 

 her Majesty, while with his right he points to the 

 figures of Mars and Neptune. In the hand of 

 Britannia is the war medal she is about to distri- 

 bute." A panel at the base contained the follow- 

 ing inscription : " Presented on the thirty-eighth 

 anniversary of the battle of Vittoria, to his Grace 

 the Duke of Richmond, K.G., by the recipients 

 of the war medal, in grateful remembrance of his 

 long and unwearied exertions on their behalf" 



With this crowning and complimentary tribute 

 to a gallant and most estimable nobleman, I now 

 bring this chapter to a close, briefly adding that, 

 for many years before his death, his Grace was 

 subject to frequent attacks of gout and other 

 maladies, which in time undermined a not very 

 robust constitution, somewhat impaired by priva- 

 tions and hardships endured in the Peninsula, in 

 France, and in Belgium, and most of all by reason 

 of the severe wound received at Orthez. At the 



