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Holmes, as well as colonel Bainbridge, read in manuscript my account of the battle of Arklow, and declared that it was perfectly agreeable to their own and general Skerrett's sentiments. Why were not the names of captains Dante, Wilkinson, and others, subscribed to this letter, who had been in the battle of Arklow? These appear to have some property, and not to have thought their situation so desperate as to be obliged to take such a step.

Perhaps also they

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had a principle superior to independently of property. Captain Dante, who, having a personal quarrel with my family, might have been gratified with such a signature, declined the honour. That of Holmes was the last signature obtained, a man of no very shallow speculation, who certainly would not make a barter for nothing.

This transaction, strange as it may appear to the reader, created not the least surprise in me, because a transaction of a far darker hue had before occurred in a combination of these same officers against me, against whom, I really believe, they were far from having any personal enmity, at a time when the command of the regiment, by colonel Bainbridge's violent sickness, devolved on major Williams. Of this nefarious combination, procured by the interest of a general officer, all powerful, it seems, with them, and counteracted by the generosity of another

general officer, a truly worthy man, of a cha racter diametrically opposite to that of the former, I shall give an account hereafter, and I hope that, for the honour of the British army, attention will be paid to this affair by the commander-in-chief.

These officers, while they remained in the neighbourhood of Gorey, were in the habit of speaking contemptuously of general Needham, whom they seldom honoured with any other appellation than that of general Needless; and told many stories of piano-fortes, jaunting cars, cows, horses, &c. but one which lieutenant Gibbs related, was so extraordinary that few believed it; that in the plundering of Magauley's shop at Oulart, in the march from Gorey to Vinegar-hill, a scramble was made for the brass money in the till or drawer of the counter.

I shall take leave at present of the Loyal Durham Fensibles with this observation, that in no other regiment could ever probably have been more strongly exemplified how much the behaviour of soldiers and subaltern officers depends on the principles and conduct of their commander. Its discipline was really excellent until the departure from it of general Skerrett, its colonel, to Newfoundland. After that, in a long sickness of colonel Bainbridge, and his long absence in England, the change was amazing. One out of many instances may suffice. Mr.

Charles Driver, of Gorey, a very eminent bootmaker, waiting on lieutenant Dutton with a pair of boots which he had ordered, and expressing in respectful terms his unwillingness to leave them without being paid, (for good reasons which he had not the imprudence to avow), was ordered by Mr. Dutton into the guard-house, and confined there some hours; and on his complaint, after his liberation, to major Williams, was commanded to go, and be damned, about his business. Mr. Driver was well known to be a very zealous loyalist, whose father had been murdered by the rebels. Whether he has since been paid for his boots I know not.

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THE END.

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Biographical Dictionary of Eccentric Characters.

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ECCENTRIC BIOGRAPHY;

OR, SKETCHES OF

Remarkable Characters,

ANCIENT AND MODERN,

INCLUDING

Potentates, Statesmen, Divines, Historians, Naval and Military Heroes, Philosophers, Lawyers, Impostors, Poets, Painters, Players, Dramatic Writers, Misers, &c. &c. &c.

The following are among the Eccentric Characters contained in this work.

Alexander the Gt.

Andrews Lancelot Aram Eugene Arkwright Sir Rd. Armstrong John Bacon John Bacon Francis Baddeley Mr. Barclay Robert Betterton Thomas Bigg John

Blood Thomas Boissi Lewis de Brown Sir William Bums Robert Butler Samuel Carey Harry

Carew Bam. Moore Cervetto

Chatterton Thomas Cheyne George Churchill Charles Cibber Sus. Maria Cleland John

Coram Capt. Tho.

Cornelly Mr.

Crichton James
Dancer Daniel
De Foe Daniel
Dempster Thomas
D'Eon, Chevalier
Dogget Thomas
Drake Sir Francis
Duck Stephen
D'Urfey Thomas
Elwes John
Falconer William
Felton John
Ferguson James

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Fielding Henry
Fisher Mary

Fitzmaurice H. T.
Fletcher Aug. Roy
Foote Samuel
Forbes Hon. John
Fordyce, banker
Fox George
Franklin Benjamin
Frederic Colonel
Fuller Thomas
Gainsborough Th.
Garrick David
Gascoigne Sir W.
Glover Wm. Fred.
Godwin Mary W.
Gordon Hon. Geo.
Grose Francis
Hagemore Rev. Mr.
Handel Geo. Fre.
Hawkesworth Dr.
Henderson John
Henderson, comedian
Hiffernan Paul
Hobbes Thomas

Hogarth William
Hopkins Matthew
Hudson Capt. H.
Hutchinson J. Hely
Jenkins Henry
Joan of Arc
Kauffman Mrs. A.
Killegrew Thomas
Kneller Sir Godfr.
Lambrun Margat.
L'Enclos Ninon de
Lewis Charles
Lilburne John
Lithgow William

Lookup Mr.
Littleton Lord T.
Macklin Charles

Madan Martin
Metcalf John

Michael An. de Ca.
Moliere John Bapt.
Monsey Dr. Mess.
Montague E. Wo.
Montague Hon. W.
Montague Mrs.
Mossop Henry
Mozart

Nash Richard
Naylor James
Oates Titus

Oldcastle Sir John
Oliver John
Paget Wm. Lord
Parr Thomas
Penn William
Philips John
Pivett Christopher
Pope Benjamin
Pope Alexander
Powell Foster
Pratt Edward
Prentice Harry
Quin James
Radcliffe John
Raleigh Sir Walter
Rokeby Lord
Rochester Earl
Rousseau J. J.
Sacheverell Henry
Bolingbroke Lord
St. Pierre Eust. de
Savage Richard
Shuter Edward

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