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JED) JL HAN, Jey SE 
OF 
LIEUTENANT W. SWABEY, R.H.A., IN THE 
PENINSULA. 
EDITED BY 
COLONEL F. A. WHINYATHS, late R.H.A. 
(Continued from p. 585, No. 11, Vol. XXTIT.). 
PART III. 
CHaprtrer III. 
Opening of the Campaign of 1813. Passage of the Douro. Action at 
Salamanca. “ F” troop R.H.A. joins the army. Passage of the 
isla. ‘ H” troop joins the Hussar Brigade. Action at Morales 
de Toro. Smart affair at Cellada del Camino. 
I know not how to account for such a long vacuum as two months 
in my journal. When nothing is to be recorded the presumption is 
that time has been misspent. How far I plead guilty to this impu- 
tation, perhaps, I shall not own; be that as it may, there are some 
recollections and I own attachments which in this vacancy of incident 
have not been disregarded or unthought of. 
Though idle with his pen, Lieutenant Swabey and the other 
officers had not been neglectful of the welfare of the troop, 
as is apparent from the following written by Major Gardiner, 
April 29th, 1813, from Mello, to the D.-A.-G., R.A., Major- 
General Macleod.—(#.4.w.) 
“Since I quitted the 1st Division I have been constantly and 
most anxiously employed. You will hear from everybody 
what “‘ EK” troop was :—I joined it! at a time when from its 
dismantled state, Downman considered it necessary to recom- 
mend a reduction in its number of guns, and its name was 
established as being incapable of taking the field. At that 
time it was supposed the army could break up from its can- 
tonments sooner than it has done, and many of the stores 
necessary to complete its refit I had to procure from Lisbon. 
I never was more unhappy at the prospect before me; how- 
ever, my good fortune did not leave me even here, and the 
exertions of Captain Dyneley, Lieutenants Newland and 
Swabey have enabled me to retrieve everything. I still 
1 In March. 
12. vol. xxi. 
