1798.] 
dealer. This bufinefs he afterwards quitted, 
and accepted a commijfion in the Ruflian fer- 
vice; but happening to kill a brother officer 
in a duel, he fled to England, where he had 
not lived long, when, finding his finances 
exhaufted, he hired himfelf as book-keeper 
to an eminent woollen-draper. In this fitua 
tion he continued five years, till the death 
of his employer, when he fet up a chandler’s 
fhop, but failing in bMfinefs, and encounter- 
ing many changes and embarrafiments, which 
reduced him to the greateft diftrefs, he was 
obliged to turn cobler, which calling he fol- 
lowed till his death. 
In the 70th year of his age, William Bagot 
Lord Bagot. is lordfhip was the fon of Sir 
Walter Bagot, of Blythfield, in Staftordthire, 
where his family had been long fettled, and had 
reprefented the county in feveral parliaments. 
The fubje& of this paragraph was returned 
to parliament at the generai election in 1754, 
and continued to reprefent this, his native 
county, till he was called up to the houfe of 
peers. On the death of his father he fuc- 
ceeded to his title of baronet, and in 1760, 
married Louifa, fitter of the late Lord Boling- 
broke, by whom_he had feveral children, the 
eldeit of whom, William, born in 1773, 
fucceeded him, Sir William was of a ftaunch 
tory family, and his principles fo well accord- 
ed with thofe of Lord Nozth, that in the year 
£780 he advifed his majefty to call him up to 
the houle of peers, by the title of Lord Bagot. 
Nor has his conduét fince fhewed, that any 
change has taken place in his opinion, having 
remained a feryile tool to the court to the laft. 
In Manchefter fquare, at the age of 76, 
Admiral John Dairymple, who had patled 
nearly 60 years in the naval fervice of his 
country. ‘Lhis-refpettable officer mult have 
entered into the fea jervice when very young, 
for he was promoted to a lieutenancy in the 
year 1744, and made poft in 1758. During 
the wars in which this country has been en- 
gaged, he has acted in fuch a manner as to 
fecure to himfelf the approbation of all his 
brother-officers, and to be diftinguifhed in the 
Navy as a man pofieffed of great nautical 
knowledge, combined with the mild manners 
of an accomplifhed gentleman. In the late 
war, when the honour, and indeed the whole 
fate of Britain was at ftake, and when it 
required the exertion of every naval officer, 
Captain Dalrymple, although then in years, 
and affliéted with chronical difeafes, offered 
his fervice with all the zeal of youth to pro- 
ceed with Lord Howe to the relief of Gib- 
raltar. He commanded the Union in that 
important expedition; and being ftationed in 
the rear of the fleet in the action between 
the Englith and the combined fquadrons of 
France and Spain, he fupported Admiral Mil-- 
bank as his fecond a-ftern, and received the 
tremendous fire of the Spanifh admiral’s fhip, 
the Santiflima Trinidada, of 130 guns, whom 
he obliged to fheer off for a time, and pre- 
Lord Bagot,..Admiral Dalrymple...F. M1, Hodgfon, 
395 
vented the enemy from breaking the Britifk 
line, which would, probably, confidering 
their great fuperiority, have enabled them 
to cut off the rear, On the promotion of 
flag-officers in 1787, Captain Dalrymple was 
railed to be Rear-admiral of the White. In 
1793 he was made a Vice-admiral 5 and in 
.1795 Admiral of the Blue, in which rank 
he died: his great age and infirmities having 
prevented him for fome years from taking 
any active command. © 
“At his refidence in Old Burlington- 
ftreet, at the advanced age of go, Field- 
Marfhal Studholme Hodgfon, goyernor of 
Fort George and’Fort Auguftus, in North 
Britain, and colonel of the 11th regiment of 
light dragoons. ‘This military veteran has 
ferved longer in the army than perhaps any 
general-officer now living. Indeed, the 
earlieft and lateft years of his life were de- 
oted tothe fervice ; and he is, in fome mea-~ 
fure, a memorable inftance of the inftability 
of human glory, for he almoft turvived the 
memory of his own exploits!—In the year 
1756, we find him appointed to the com- 
mand of the 32d regiment of foot, in the 
room of General Leighton. In 1759, he was 
advanced to the rank of Major-general in the 
army ; and, in the courfe of the preceding 
year, he exchanged from the 32d to the.sth. 
regiment of foot. Much to his honour, he 
was felected by the great Lord Chatham, then 
Mr. Pict, as an officer proper to be employed 
in the expeditions meditating againft France. 
Accordingly, when the attempt on Belle-Ifle 
was planned, in 1761, General Hodgfon em- 
barked with the fleet, under the command of 
the then Commadore, afterwards Admiral Lord 
Keppel. ‘The firft trial to land proved un- 
fuccefstul, and 260 men were made prifoners. 
The coaft, however, was further recon- 
noitered ; andthe general, after mature con- 
fideration, determined to attempt. different 
landings at the fame time, in order to dif- 
tract the enemy’s attention, and take advan- 
tage of circumftances. ‘This fcheme fur- 
prifed on account of its noveity, and ulti- 
mately fucceeded, for a place of difficult 
accefs happening to be left unguarded, was 
furprifed and occupied by a detachment of 
Britifh troops, who being afterwards rein- 
forced, a general debarkation enfued.. After 
getting the little army on fhore, the next 
thing was to drive the enemy from a ftrong 
fortified camp, which was at. length effeéted. 
by dint of valour. But, even after this was 
accomplifhed, a variety of obitacles prefented 
themielves. The citadel, fortified on the 
principles, and planned by the hand of the 
celebrated Vauban, the greateft engincer of: 
modern times, contained a garrifon of 3000 
men, commanded by one of the braveft offi- 
cers in the French fervige. The fiege, how- 
ever, commenced; for the Britith forces’ 
broke ground on the 1ft of May, 1761, and 
the attack was profecuted with unremitting 
Vigoury 
