[54] McGrigor’s Autobiography, pp. 304, 305.
[55] When sending him to command in India.
[56] These two letters are in the Rice-Jones Correspondence (this R.E. officer is not to be confounded with Sir John Jones, the historian), lent to me by Hon. Henry Shore of Mount Elton, Clevedon.
[57] See Colborne’s Life and Letters, ed. Moore Smith, pp. 126, 127; 235, 236.
[58] Napier, vi. p. 175.
[59] Grattan, p. 332.
[60] The memorandum is on pp. 261–263 of vol. iv. of Wellington’s Dispatches.
[61] Dispatches, vol. v. pp. 123, 124.
[62] For an interesting chapter on the adventures of Colquhoun Grant see the autobiography of his brother-in-law, Sir J. McGrigor.
[63] Stanhope’s Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, p. 19.