[134] Stewart chafed at his checks, and wrote bitterly to Castlereagh about the insignificance of his position.
[135] See Chapter XVIII. on Sieges, p. [286].
[136] For special note as to the functions of the “Staff Corps of Cavalry” raised in March, 1813, see the General Order of that date. This body must be carefully distinguished from the Staff Corps, concerning which see Fortescue’s British Army, iv. p. 881: it was a kind of subsidiary corps of military artificers, independent of the Ordnance Office to which “Royal Military Artificers” belonged. This was a vicious duplication of parallel organizations.
[137] General Order, Freneda, Nov. 1, 1811.
[138] Private Journal of Judge-Advocate Larpent, 1812–14, published London, 1853.
[139] Names may suffice to show the class from which they were drawn: Marquis of Worcester, Lord March, Bathurst, Bouverie, Burghersh, Canning, Manners, Stanhope, Fremantle, Gordon, de Burgh, Cadogan, Fitzroy Somerset.
[140] See [note] on page [270] of chapter xvi on “Impedimenta.”
[141] See General Order of May 4, 1809.
[142] Its most ambitious efforts were a small volume of maps printed at Cambray, during the occupation of France after Waterloo, with notes by Col. Carmichael Smith, R.E., and the General Orders for 1815, printed at Paris, by Sergeant Buchan, 3rd Guards, head printer to the Army of Occupation.
[143] See, for example, York’s Alkmaar dispatch of Oct. 6, 1799.