. The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs and society, 1810-1860. paid to him. The royal Duke diedafter three or four weeks suffering from dropsy, inhis sixty-fourth year. His administration at theHorse Guards will long be held in remembrance, asbeneficial in the highest degree to the Britishsoldier ; and such was his popularity, that ministers,statesmen, and general officers followed his remainsto the grave. I recollect my late lamented friend,John Scott, telling me that his father, Lord Eldon,spoilt a new hat by placing it on the groun
. The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs and society, 1810-1860. paid to him. The royal Duke diedafter three or four weeks suffering from dropsy, inhis sixty-fourth year. His administration at theHorse Guards will long be held in remembrance, asbeneficial in the highest degree to the Britishsoldier ; and such was his popularity, that ministers,statesmen, and general officers followed his remainsto the grave. I recollect my late lamented friend,John Scott, telling me that his father, Lord Eldon,spoilt a new hat by placing it on the ground andputting his feet into it to keep them warm ; for itwas intensely cold weather at the time, and thefuneral took place at night. It is certain that agreat many persons who took part in the processioncaught severe colds from their not having; suffi-ciently wrapped themselves up ; and among themwas Mr Canning, who never entirely recovered : hedied the same year, in the room at Ch is wick whereCharles James Fox breathed his last. Colonel the Honourable H. Stanhope.—Nextto the death of the Duke of York, there was no. Id < O o 01 SIR ROBERT PEELS HAT. 315 event which pained the Grenadier Guards so muchas the untimely death of the Honourable ColonelStanhope. He had seen much service ; served asaide-de-camp to Sir John Moore and to Lord Lyne-doch, and distinguished himself greatly at was the only one of the staff accompanying theDuke of Wellington when the Duke took refuge inour square from the enemy s cavalry, as related inmy first volume. The sensation the death of Colonel Stanhopecreated in the public mind was partly clue to themelancholy circumstance of his suicide. He had neverrecovered from the effects of a gun-shot wound he hadreceived at the siege of St Sebastian, and under thecombined influences of pain and nervous depression,he hanged himself in Caen Wood, the property ofhis father-in-law, the Earl of Mansfield. Besides hismerits as a soldier, Colonel Sta
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