[128]. ‘London Gazette Extraordinary,’ August 15, 1803.
[129]. Ibid.
[130]. ‘London Gazette,’ 19 to 23 June, 1804.
[131]. Ibid.
[132]. In the subsequent campaigns of the West Indies he behaved equally meritoriously; and in garrison and the workshops always conducted himself well. Besides being an excellent mason and foreman, no artificer in the service, perhaps, had a better practical idea of mining, in which he signalized himself at the destruction of Fort Desaix, Martinique. After sixteen years' arduous service in the West Indies, he was sent to Woolwich and discharged in July, 1814.
[133]. Sir James Fellowes ‘On the Fever of Andalusia.’
[134]. According to Sir James Fellowes, 229 men of the companies were admitted into hospital with the fever, of whom 106 recovered, and 123 died; but as Sir James has omitted the statistics for August in his tables, the apparent disparity between the two accounts is reduced to the trifling difference of 4 only, a mistake which, doubtless, occurred from some inaccuracy or accidental omission in the information furnished to Sir James from the Ordnance Hospital records.
[135]. This statement is borne out by Sir James Fellowes. See p. 450 of his work ‘On the Fever of Andalusia.’
[136]. What was most extraordinary connected with these daring fellows, was the fact, that throughout the epidemic, they enjoyed the most robust health; but, after its cessation, fearing that they were loaded with infection, and that a sudden transition to the garrison again would cause the fever to return, the authorities deemed it prudent to send the hearse-driver and gravediggers to camp at Beuna Vista, where, after about two months' quarantine, they were permitted to rejoin their companies.
[137]. ‘United Service Journal,’ i., 1845, p. 483.