#92 Account of Count de Welderen—Major Trotter.  [Oct. 15 
tation could be admitted, even if otherwise 
possessed of the necessary qualifications. This 
Privilege was preserved when the Dechy of 
Guelderland acceded to the confederacy of 
the United Provinces; and the deceased, 
when he came of age, became In conse- 
quence by right of birth a member of the 
equestrian order, and was soon after by the 
states of that province appointed one of their 
deputies to the assembly of the Statcs Ge- 
meral of the United Provinces, in which he 
continued until the beginning of the year 
795, when the fabric of that government, 
the happiness. of the country, its prosperity, 
and its independence, were swallowed up in 
the French Revolution, Count Welderen 
was invested with several places of trust end 
dignity in his own country, and, in 1752, 
Was. appointed envoy extraordinary and mi- 
mister plenipotentiary: of the States General 
to the Court of London; and during a resi= 
dence of 18 years, gave so mahy proofs of 
wisdom, prudence, and conciliatory manneré 
and integrity in the management of the pub- 
hic business of the two countries, that he 
soon acquired the esteem of the first charac 
ters in the kingdom, and the approbation of 
the sovereign, who on several occasion® has 
been graciously pleased to express the great 
regard he entertained for that miniwter. The 
war, which by French mtrigue, assisted by 
the patriot party in Holland, broke owt to- 
wards the latter end of 1780, put an end to 
his public mission. Count Welderen was 
keright of the most noble the Teutonic order, 
baily of Utrecht, commander of Dieren, and 
succeeded his Serene Highness the Prince of 
Anhalt, about a year before his decease, as 
grand commander of that order. Few great 
men in public life have sustained a more con- 
sistent character of loyalty and integrity than 
Count Welderen; from princivie and affec- 
tion he was attached to the ancient constl- 
tution of his country, and to the House of 
‘Orange 3 and from:them he received through- 
out the whole period of their prosperity and 
adversity the most undeniable marks of re- 
gard and affectien, “and continued to be their 
friend to the last, In private life, as a gen- 
tleman, his manners were mild and amiable, 
and his social intercourse full of plesantnes:. 
He was a warm fricnd, an insulgent master, 
and a tender busband. He was born at the 
Hague, January 19, 1725, and matricd, in 
3759, Ann Wahitwell, sister of the late Lord 
Howaid de Walden, who had been maid of 
honour to her Royal Highness the late Prin- 
cess of Orange. By her he had two children, 
a son and a daughter, who both died infants 5 
his Countess died in April, 1796, at the 
Hague, in her 75:h year; when domestic 
losses, (his oniy bro her, a lieutenant- general 
in the army, and commandant of Maestricht, 
having, atter the fall of that place, died a 
few weeks before in his house, where he had 
taken refuge,) added to public misfortunes, 
prompted hini to return to England; where 
both from friends and relations he met with 
such unbounded cordiality and friendship, as 
to afford him in the bitterness of his last 
years an abundant source of consolation, 
whi¢h was felt by him with the most sincere 
and gra.eful sensibility. 
Killed in the late attack on Buenos Ayres, 
Major Trotter, of the 87th regiment. He 
wes brother of Mr. Trotter, late the confi- 
déntial secretary of Mr. Fox, and nephew of 
the late Bishop of Down. He began his mis 
litary career in the 88th regiment, in which 
he vas present at the taking of Dunkirk, 
With that regiment he went to India, and 
aecompanied the Indian expedition to Egypt, 
where hie mesit attraéted the notice of his” 
superiors, and he was in consequence ap~ 
pointed toa situation on the staff. After the 
commencement of the present war, General 
Beresford, the friend and patron of Captain 
Trotter, bsing placed on the stafi in Ireland, 
appointed him his aid-du-camp. From that 
situation he was promoted to a majority in 
the $34, and his exertions were most conspi- 
cuous aid successful, in perfecting the disci- 
pline of that regiment, and inducing the men 
to volunteer for general service into the first 
battalion. With the 83d, Major Trotter 
went on the expedition te the Cape of Goed 
Hope; and as acting assistant adjutant-genes 
ral distinguished? himself in such a manner 
in the attack and defeat of the Dutch army, 
as to merit the public thanks of Sir David 
Baird, who commanded the British forces of 
that expedition. When the conquest of 
Buenos Ayres was achieved by the gallantry 
of the British forces under the command of 
@eneral Beresford, that gallant and able . 
officer, from the high opinion he entertained 
of Major Trotter’s courage and ability, wrote 
to him to come dver with the reinforcement 
from the Cape, and appointed him assist~ 
ant adjutant-general to the British forces in 
South America. But before the arrival of 
the reinforcement from the Cape, General 
Beresford, and the little army under his 
command, had been unfortunately compelled 
to surrender to the Spaniards; and the force 
under Sir Samuel Achmuty had been accom- 
panied out by an assistant adjutant general 
appointed in this country. ‘Ihat general, 
however, offered Major Trotter an appoint= 
ment in the quarter-master-general’s depart 
ment, which he declined, requesting to be 
placed in some active situation, in which his 
exertions would tend more to the benefit of 
the service. He was in consequence 4p~ 
pointed to command the grenadiers in the 
attack of Maldonado, and on that occasion 
he again conducted himself in such a manner 
as to obtain particular notice in the public 
thanks. In a skirmish in advancing to the 
attack of Monte Video, Major Trotter had 2 — 
horse shot under him, and received a wound 
in the hand, but was not thereby prevented 
from leading the light. brigade, in conjunc 
tion with his gallant friend Colonel Browne 
rigg, on the desperate service of forming the 
reach of that fortress, On that ocvasign 
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