. A history of the Peninsular War. man with many friends andmany enemies : of his merits and defects I spoke at lengthin another place \ Here I feel compelled to quote nothingmore than the words of his friend, Lord Londonderry—theCharles Stewart of the Peninsular War. He was an officer ofwhom the highest expectation had been formed, and who onevery occasion found an opportunity to prove that, had his lifebeen spared, the proudest hopes of his country would not havebeen disappointed, and he was a man to know whom in hisprofession without admiring him was impossible. To me hisdeath occasioned th
. A history of the Peninsular War. man with many friends andmany enemies : of his merits and defects I spoke at lengthin another place \ Here I feel compelled to quote nothingmore than the words of his friend, Lord Londonderry—theCharles Stewart of the Peninsular War. He was an officer ofwhom the highest expectation had been formed, and who onevery occasion found an opportunity to prove that, had his lifebeen spared, the proudest hopes of his country would not havebeen disappointed, and he was a man to know whom in hisprofession without admiring him was impossible. To me hisdeath occasioned that void which the removal of a sincerefriend alone produces. While the memory of the brave and ithe skilful shall continue to be cherished by British soldiers, ;he will not be forgotten, and the hand which scrawls this jhumble tribute to his worth must be cold as his own, before themind which dictates it shall cease to think of him with affectionand regret 2. 1 See vol. iii. pp. 233-7. 2 Londonderrys Peninsular War, ii. p.
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