[4] Sir William Gomm’s Life, p. 31.
[5] See his curious dispatch from Cartaxo dated February 6th, 1811, concerning preaching officers.
[6] He describes himself as “rolling on the floor like one distracted, with the pains of hell getting hold, and hope seeming to be for ever shut out of my mind.”—Surtees, p. 172.
[7] He calls his little book Memoir of a Sergeant late of the 43rd Light Infantry, previously to and during the Peninsular War, including an account of his Conversion from Popery to the Protestant Religion.
[8] John Stevenson of the Scots Fusilier Guards.
[9] Life of Sir W. Napier, i. 235, 236.
[10] Dispatches, vii. p. 559.
[11] Ibid. vi. p. 485.
[12] This preposterous remark may be found on p. 28 of vol. vi.
[13] Only printed in 1894.