[43] He died at Mount Vernon, on the 14th December, 1799, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, leaving a widow but no issue.

[44] Pictorial History of England.

[45] This and a few of the subsequent letters from Colonel Baynes are partly in cipher of figures, but of course we have not the key.

[46] The present Lieut.-General Ellice, colonel of the 24th regiment of foot. He is the officer mentioned at page 97, but was deputy adjutant-general in Canada, and not inspecting field officer of militia as we supposed.

[47] The late Major-General Heriot, C.B., then Captain Heriot, of the 49th.

[48] The late Admiral Lord de Saumarez, G.C.B., &c.

[49] The present Colonel Le Couteur, Militia Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, in Jersey. In the United Service Journal for October, 1831, Colonel Le Couteur has described the winter march of the 104th regiment, early in 1813, from New Brunswick to Canada.

[50] The present Major-General Thomas Evans, C.B., then a captain of the 8th foot.


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