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opened the Treasury purse and a settlement of some sort was effected. 
As to Montandre’s Dragoon Regiment in Portugal, it does not appear 
to have been embodied until the autumn, or winter, of 1709, as we find 
Lord Galway in the October of that year representing to the King of 
Portugal that his army could not act offensively until the men for the 
six dragoon regiments, in the pay of Great Britain, had been raised. 
Montandre was Colonel of the last of these six regiments and his name 
appears as Colonel in a list of the regiment under date of 28rd 
December, 1709. On his relinquishing his command in Portugal, 
Lieut.-Colonel Sarlande was appointed Colonel in Montandre’s place.} 
These dragoon regiments were disbanded in 1711. His long con- 
nection with the British army made Montandre anxious to have, and 
to hold, the Coloneley of a British regiment which would bear his 
name and place a certain amount of military patronage in his hands. 
As we have already seen, his own regiment was reduced after the 
Peace of Utrecht. On July 22nd, 1715, we find the Marquis de 
Montandre appointed Colonel of a newly raised regiment on the 
Irish Hstablishment, but, in 1718, this corps was reduced and the 
Marquis had once again to urge his claims for a regiment.? In 1719 
we find him writing two letters to General Stanhope, Secretary of 
War, dated respectively 3rd June and 12th July, begging that General’s 
interest in obtaining for him a regiment which had just become vacant 
by the death of its Colonel.’ But the wish of Montandre’s latter years 
remained ungratified. Other high honours were, however, in store 
for him and he found a friend in George II. On 16th January, 1728, 
Montandre was appointed Master-General of the Ordnance in Ireland 4 
and was allowed in his later years to discharge this office by deputy. 
On October 27th, 1735, Montandre was promoted to the rank of 
General and three years later was appointed Governor of Guernsey 
with a salary of £1500 per annum. ‘This latter appointment was also 
a “non-resident” one and allowed the Marquis to reside at his house 
in Brook Street, London. On the death of the Harl of Orkney, in 
1737, it was announced in one or two of the London papers that 
Montandre had been raised to the Marshalate. That there was some 
ground for this rumour we may readily believe from the following 
extract out of a letter to the Duke of Ormonde, from his friend 
Mr. Ezekiel Hamilton :— 
Leyden, June 2nd, 1737.—“I hear that the Marquis de Mon- 
tandre is to be made Field-Marshal, in the room of the late 
Karl of Orkney, which is not agreeable to many of the 
English General officers who were disgusted that fourteen 
foreigners were amongst the list of the last promotion of 
General officers in England.” 
1 Mr. Agnew makes no mention of Montandre’s Portuguese regiment. 
2 It is curious to read in Mr. Agnew’s memoir of Montandre’s services that ‘ he maintained his 
regiment through the various administrations.” 
3 The vacancies occurred by the deaths of Generals Meredith and Davenport, both of whom were 
Colonels of Regiments on the Irish Establishment.—Stanhope Correspondence, Record Office. 
4 ‘The seal used by Montandre as Master General of the Ordnance in Ireland isin the possession 
of the Des Voeux family. 
