We have endeavoured, in this number and our Supplement, to find room for most of the favours of our Correspondents: those which are not inserted will appear in the beginning of the Second Volume.

The Supplement, which is published to accompany this number, concludes the First Volume of the Military Panorama: in it will be found tables of the Home and Foreign Staff, a variety of Military Information, interesting correspondence, CourtsMartial, and the Gazettes brought down nearly to the present time. On an examination it will be perceived, that by a small yet clear type we have contrived to publish every Military Dispatch, Promotion, Exchange, &c. in the army that has appeared since the commencement of this Work; and that department of our labours being so particularly attended to, will render the Military Panorama valuable to all Officers, as, excepting the Weekly Gazettes, which are too expensive for the generality of Military Men, there is no other publication that contains a correct statement of those matters.

In reply to our Correspondents, Captain B. N. and C. I. who have addressed us on the subject of the Officers of the 85th Regiment, or Bucks Volunteers, requiring our information as to the cause which induced the illustrious Commander-in-Chief to exchange and remove the Officers of that corps to other Regiments; after referring them to the Proceedings of a General Court-Martial, held at Hythe on the 19th of August, 1812, and continued by adjournment to the 3d of Sept. following, for the trial of Brevet Lieut.-Col. Eneas M'Intosh, which will be found inserted in our Supplement, and to the Gazette of Tuesday the 2d inst. in which it will be found that one Lieut.-Colonel, two Majors, seven Captains, nine Lieutenants, and five Ensigns have been exchanged or removed from the 85th to other Regiments; and one Captain, Meredith, discharged the service-one Captain, Hylton, cashiered -and one Ensign, Busteed, promoted-we have only to state that the dissensions which have long been prevalent in that corps, and its disorganized state, rendered it absolutely necessary to resort to the strong measures which His Royal Highness adopted. It was apparent that a party spirit existed amongst the Officers of the 85th regiment in a degree highly detrimental to the good of His Majesty's service, and we sincerely trust that no future occasion will ever arise in the British Army, for the Commander-in-Chief to make a similar example.

The following is an extract of His Royal Highness the Duke of York's letter, dated the 22d of January last, and addressed to Lieut.-General the Earl of Rosslyn, announcing the determination to separate the Officers of the 85th Regt. generally — "In communicating this decision, I have received the Prince Regent's commands to desire that your Lordship will, at the same time, explain to the Officers, that it has been adopted as a general measure of expediency, and not intended as an imputation against any individual; and that your Lordship will assure Brevet Lieut.Col. M'Intosh and Major Mein, in particular, that the measure does not lessen the feeling of approbation under which their general services are appreciated, and that due consideration is given to the very honourable terms by which the Courts-Martial have expressed their acquittals of the charges preferred against Lieut.-Col. M'Intosh. I am, &c. &c. (Signed)

FREDERICK, Com.-in-Chief.

An interesting Narrative of the Campaigns in Russia will be given in our April number.

THE

Military Panorama,

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OFFICER'S COMPANION FOR MARCH 1813.

MILITARY BIOGRAPHY.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE EARL OF UXBRIDGE. Peril suo contrasio.

TH

HE war in the Peninsula has afforded to British Officers so many opportunities of acquiring distinction, that it is difficult to select those for the early biographical notices of the Military Panorama, who are most entitled to be cited as examples to future heroes; yet the gallant achievements of Lord Paget, now Earl of Uxbridge, and his acknowledged merit as a Cavalry Officer, claim not only the admiration and gratitude of his country, but enable us, without appearing invidious, to pay that homage to his military talents which his lordship has so justly merited.

Lord Uxbridge, eldest son of the late Earl, was born the 17th May, 1768, and received the first rudiments of his education at Westminster, from whence he was removed to Christ-Church, Oxford. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, in 1793, Lord Paget, disdaining inglorious repose, and anxious to embrace a military life, raised the 80th Regiment of Foot, or Staffordshire Volunteers, a fine body of young men, principally on the estates of his noble father. On 600 men being raised, Lord Paget was presented with a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the army; and on 400 more being added, his Lordship was offered a Colonelcy, which he refused on the grounds of his not having then been on foreign service. At this period the excellent regulations, since framed by the present illustrious Commander-in-Chief, were not in force, and Lord Paget's nomination to the permanent rank of Field-Officer militated against VOL I. Ii

no existing rule of promotion. Three months after the letter of service, Lord Paget, with his regiment, embarked for Guernsey, and from thence, in 1794, joined His Royal Highness the Duke of York in Flanders,—and in that retreat his Lordship, being senior Field-Officer, was entrusted with the command of Lord Cathcart's brigade, the latter gallant Officer having a separate corps, to which his attention was necessarily directed.

Lord Paget, who had been removed from the 80th to the command of the 7th regt. of Light Dragoons, accompanied His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the expedition to Holland; and in the general attack made on the 2d of October, 1799, his Lordship was attached to the division under the command of the Russian General de Hermaun, and posted on the sand hills, where he had an opportunity of contributing materially to the brilliant victory that day obtained by British troops, under circumstances of the most discouraging nature. Late in the evening of that day, the enemy's cavalry having been defeated in an attempt which they made upon the British horse artillery, were charged by the cavalry under Lord Paget, and driven, with considerable loss, nearly to Egmontop-Zee*. In the retreat of that army, Lord Paget, with his cavalry, protected the rear,--and some skirmishing having taken place, whereby several pieces of cannon fell into the hands of the enemy, his Lordship, with one squadron, made a gallant attack upon the force of General Simon, amounting to above six times that of his Lordship's, totally repulsed them, obtained back the British, and with them several pieces of the enemy's cannon.

After the return of the army from Holland, Lord Paget devoted himself with the greatest assiduity to the discharge of his regimental duties, and, by his unremitting attention, the 7th Light Dragoons has become one of the first regiments of cavalry in the British service.

Lieutenant-General Lord Paget, with two brigades + of cavalry, consisting of the 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th regiments of Hussars, followed the division, sent under the command of Sir David Baird, to co-operate with Sir John Moore in Spain. Lord Paget disembarked his forces at Coruña, amidst the innumerable difficulties

"Lord Paget distinguished himself by his usual spirit and ability in the command of the cavalry, and his Lordship's exertions are deserving of every praise."

Vide Gazette.

+ Lord Paget's two brigades of cavalry were commanded by the gallant and distinguished officer Major-General the Honorable Charles Stewart, and by Major General Slade,—his Lordship superintending the movements of both.