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of Essex; 5th, Jane, b- Sept. 1, 1774, m. April 18, Admiral George 

 present Earl of Galloway; 6th, Sir Edward, K-B. and K. T. s. Lieu- 

 tenant-General in the Army, b- Nov. 3, 1775, m. May 21, 1804, the 

 Hon. Louisa Bagot, daughter of William first Lord Bagot, who d. 

 May 30, 1806; 7th, Louisa, b. March 26, 1777, m- Lieut.-General 

 Sir James Erskine; 8th, Charles, &. Oct. 7, 1778, a Captain in the 

 Royal Navy, m- Elizabeth Araminta, second daughter of Henry 

 Monck, Esq. ; 9th, Berkeley, b. Jan. 2, 1780, m. Nov. 22, 1804, 

 Sophia, daughter of the Hon. William Bucknall Guinston ; 10th, 

 Charlotte, b. Oct. 27, 1781, m. Oct. 15, 1805, John Willoughby 

 Earl of Enniskillen; llth, Mary ,,6. April 9, 1783, m. June 27, 

 1803, Thomas Lord Graves. The Earl dying March 13, 1812, was 

 succeeded by his eldest son, 



William Henry, third Earl of Uxbridge, and first MARQUIS OF 

 ANGLESEY. His Lordship was early destined to the army, and 

 after a series of honourable services, embarked for Lisbon at the 

 beginning of the Peninsular war, having received the command of 

 the cavalry attached to the memorable expedition under the la- 

 mented Sir John Moore. Much mystery still attaches to this un- 

 fortunate affair, but there can be no doubt that Sir John was de- 

 ceived by the artifices of the enemy, and the information of pre- 

 tended friends, as to the strength and character of the troops with 

 which he had to contend, composed, as it afterwards appeared, of 

 the flower of the French army, commanded by Buonaparte in per- 

 son, and numbering upwards of 70..000 men, whilst the British 

 consisted of less than 30,000. Sir John marched from Lisbon in 

 four divisions, and assembled his treops at Salamanca on the 23d 

 of November 1808 : here he soon learned that all hope of assist- 

 ance from the Patriots was at an end. Belvidere, Castanos, and- 

 Blake, had been successively defeated, and Burgos and Valladolid 

 were in the hands of the French, the latter town only 60 miles 

 north of him. Thus deprived of the aid which he had been 

 led to expect, prudence dictated retreat ; but a transitory burst 

 of patriotism in the populace of Madrid, and a remonstrance from 

 the Junta against such a measure, determined Sir John to attempt 

 something, though without the least probability of success- He 

 accordingly resolved to attack Soult, who was at Saldanna, and 

 thus make a diversion in favour of the Spaniards in the south. The 

 whole army united at Majorga on the 20th December, where 

 the head-quarters were fixed. At this place Lord Paget had a 

 gallant affair with a detachment of the enemy; and having gained 



