LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, C.B., R.A. 443 
Poor man, he is sure the climate won’t agree with me. 
You say Miss Scott has not received the cork seeds. There is no 
difference to the eye between acorns and cork seeds. However, you 
may tell hee with my kind remembrances that I will take care a proper 
selection shall be made this season. 
Give my love to Mrs. Robert Jenner; ask her if she has forgiven 
me for stopping so long chatting to Robert! the night I left Iondon; 
tell her to make Gilbert a soldier and then he will be ready to come on 
to her staff by the time I must leave it. 
An order has just come from Lord Wellington desiring commanding 
officers of regiments to enlist 800 Spaniards for each English regiment. 
This certainly makes the cause look better, and if we can but contrive to 
get onin that way we may do something yet. I am happy to say every- 
body seems to be of the same way of thinking as myself respecting the 
hardness of the case of the 2nd Captains of artillery in not being 
allowed the brevet. Don’t you think something could be done to 
secure it for us on our promotion to a company? ‘There is nothing 
like having an anchor to windward,and that anchor to beat while the iron 
is hot. Let me know what is said about it, and it would be very well 
worth your while to try and get it for me; because, though perhaps 
you may not recollect it, for it was as far back as when I first went to 
be a cadet, I remember complaining that your drawing-room carpet at 
Hill Farm was very shabby, and you said you would wait until I was a 
General, when you had no doubt I would make you a present of one. 
Give Colonel Fisher’s? note to Baynes. It will amuse him to see 
his friend ‘“ Fitz” ® has been in a passion with his hospital steward, 
a German, tell him not to let “ Fitz” know he has made the discovery, 
or he will blow me up. ‘Tell Jane all the redress the poor fellow got, 
was Colonel Fisher’s asking him, “if he would be kicked for 6d. a day.” 
T have not seen anything of Henry Baynes since he left us for Nisa. 
When any of you write to Sir William Marvellous do not forget my 
kind regards. 
Send me out in the next letters two or three much stouter whip 
lashes, those that came with the whips were too slight. I believe I said 
in my last that I should not be able to save “Johnny Raw’s” eyes. I 
am so much pleased with “ Bobby” that I would not take 150 guineas 
for him, if we part it will be for 200. 
Teli William Lyon to bring iron chains for his head-collars, and 
some strong canvas nose-bags. 
1 His first cousin. Mrs. Dyneley and Mrs. Jenner of Wenvoe Castle, Glamorganshire, were 
sisters, Miss Birts of Wenvoe.—Ed. 
2 Commanding R.A. in the Peninsula. 
3 Assistant-Surgeon Fitzpatrick mentioned in letter No. II. He retired in May 1830, and 
settled in London, where General Dyneley used to consult the old friend and medical attendant of 
his campaigning days, who died at Bath in 1852, 
