. The British in Capri, 1806-1808 . ab ofwhite marble was substituted for it. Dr. Cerio remem-bers meeting, when he came to Capri about forty-fouryears ago, men of eighty and ninety years of age whowell remembered the attack of the French. The personality of Major Hamill is described in thenotes. He is said to have been truly courteous, charit-able, and kind towards everyone, alike towards themilitary and the peasants. Regarding his liberality, thewriter wished not to leave unremembered the followinggracious deed—namely, that when two peasants askedfrom him, as Commander of the Piazza of Anaca
. The British in Capri, 1806-1808 . ab ofwhite marble was substituted for it. Dr. Cerio remem-bers meeting, when he came to Capri about forty-fouryears ago, men of eighty and ninety years of age whowell remembered the attack of the French. The personality of Major Hamill is described in thenotes. He is said to have been truly courteous, charit-able, and kind towards everyone, alike towards themilitary and the peasants. Regarding his liberality, thewriter wished not to leave unremembered the followinggracious deed—namely, that when two peasants askedfrom him, as Commander of the Piazza of Anacapri,permission to shoot, he granted it at once in writing,saying that he would buy all the game that they finding any game on the particular day, the peasantsasked pardon for being able to produce only a heccajko ^ Dr. Axel Miinthe, of Anacapri, was summoiied, in recent years, to thedeath-bed of an old oontadino, or country-man, whom he found wrapped in anEnglish military coat, on which the buttons remained still MAJOR JOHN HAMILL 297 (literally, a fig-pecker : properly, a garden-warbler).Hamill took it, and made them the gift of half a Spanishfive-lire piece (mezza pezza di Spagna). Captain C. T. Atkinson, in a paper reported in theJournal of the Royal United Service Institution, afterstating that the Royal Regiment of Malta was formed in1805, says that it did not figure with conspicuoussuccess when defending Capri in 1808, and its establish-ment was reduced to 1,000 m 1809, to 400 in 1810, andthe next year it disappeared from the lists. He adds— Associated with the Royal Regiment of Malta in theloss of Capri, from which unfortunate episode theyemerged without any loss of reputation, were theCorsican Rangers. This regiment was formed atMinorca out of the Corsicans who had attached them-selves to the British when the island of Minorca wasevacuated. Sir Hudson Lowe was commissioned inOctober, 1803, to raise the corps, which was alreadyover 500 strong by the
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