tained for him as much fame as the battle of Ho henlinden, and the stand of Moore at Corunna, when his best hope was to escape in safety from his pursuers, made him more celebrated in death than he had ever been in life. Graham, too, has been justly honoured for his conduct in this memorable retreat. "In the hour of peril," said Sheridan, when recording his services in the House of Commons, " in the hour of peril Graham was their best adviser; in the hour of disaster Graham was their surest consolation."

On his return to England, he was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-General, (July 25th, 1810) and appointed to command a division in the reinforcement sent to Malta, but being attacked by fever he was again obliged to come home.

We now arrive at the event on which his reputation is principally established, and which but for the numerous, though scarcely more brilliant victories achieved by Wellington so closely upon it, would have brought him into yet higher estimation. He was appointed to the chief command of the British force then employed in assisting the Spaniards to defend Cadiz. On arriving there, he found that the latter, with their usual ignorance and incapacity, had so imperfectly constructed their defences, that it was impossible they could have long maintained themselves against

any serious attack. His first care, therefore, was to remedy these defects so far as the Spanish pride and obstinacy would allow him, and with so much energy did he carry on the work, that before Soult had completed his preparations for the attack, he was in a condition to receive it. At this juncture the French Marshal was called away by Napoleon's orders to assist Massena, when Graham, taking advantage of his absence and the diminished force of the assailants, determined upon offensive operations. This led to the celebrated battle of Barossa, which, although it lasted little more than an hour and a half, was fierce and bloody in the extreme, and ended in the total defeat of Victor. During the whole of this terrible contest, La Pena and his Spaniards remained idle spectators, actually refusing to lend the slightest assistance to the allies who were so desperately fighting and dying in their service.

After these events, General Graham joined the army under the Duke of Wellington, and though obliged by ill-health to revisit England for a short period, he returned to the continent time enough to reap fresh laurels at the battle of Vittoria. Subsequently he commanded at the siege of St. Sebastian; and at the passage of the Bidassoa the left wing of the British army was entrusted to his guidance. But the infirmities of age seem to have been rapidly stealing upon him;

he was again driven from the field by want of health and strength to bear the fatigues of such sharp service, and once more went back to England, when he again received the thanks of parliament. He was now raised to the peerage, with an annual pension of £2000, having previously been created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and subsequently a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He was likewise a Knight of the Tower and Sword in Portugal. In 1821 he obtained the rank of General. In 1826 he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 14th foot, and in 1834 was removed to the Colonelcy of the Royals. In 1829 he was made Governor of Dumbarton Castle, a post rather of honour than of profit, the salary attached to it being no more than £170 a year.

From this period, the greater portion of his time was spent in Italy, the mild air of which was better suited to his age and infirmities than the rough British climate. Yet, after all, he had the happiness—for it must in some sense be called a happiness of dying in the island of his birth, though not in the precise part of it which must have been dearest to his recollection. He expired at his residence in Stratton Street, at the advanced age of ninety-four, honoured and lamented by the country he had served so truly.

GUY, EARL OF WARWICK.

AT Warwick Castle may still be seen that curious and astonishing relic of antiquity, the armour of Guy, Earl of Warwick. At present it consists of a breast-plate, weighing fifty pounds, a shield thirty pounds, a helmet seven pounds. These, with his sword of twenty pounds weight, make 107 pounds of iron, which, tradition says, this wonderful man carried in battle, besides his other accoutrements. In the same room is shewn Guy's "porridge pot," (now used as the family punch bowl) weighing 850 pounds, holding 126 gallons; as, likewise, his flesh fork, for taking the meat up. enormous size of the armour, it is said that he was eight feet six inches high, a height at the present time almost incredible, had there not been the Irish giant, O'Brien, who was above eight feet. That such a person as Guy of Warwick lived, will not admit of a doubt; though at the

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same time it must be allowed that the stories related of him, are of the same exaggerated, metaphorical description, as those with which our legendary tales are filled. Speaking of Warwick Castle, Sir William Dugdale says, "Here is to be seen a large two-handed sword and helmet, and certain plate armour for horse service; which, as the tradition is, were part of the accoutrements some time belonging to the famous Guy; but I rather think they are of a much later date; yet I find that in the first of Henry VIII. the sword, having that repute, the king granted the custody thereof to William Hoggeston, one of the yeomen of the buttery, or his efficient deputy, with the fee of twopence per diem for that service." This office was continued by Queen Elizabeth; the fee is set down in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, at £5 per annum.