ingular coincidence, the two brothers commenced
their career in the same ship, the Victory, to which their near
relative, Lieutenant Carre Tupper, belonged when he was killed in the
Mediterranean, in one of her boats, and all three lost their lives in
boats!]

APPENDIX D.

COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER.

... My beautiful, my brave!

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Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime
Has felt the influence of malignant star,
And waged with Fortune an unequal war!

This highly gifted young man was a brother of the subject of the
preceding memoir, their father having had ten sons and three daughters.
He received an excellent education in England, partly under a private
tutor in Warwickshire; and on the restoration of the Bourbons, in 1814,
he was sent to a college in Paris, in which he continued until the
arrival of Napoleon from Elba, when he was gratified by a glimpse of
that extraordinary man. When he landed in France, although he had barely
completed his fourteenth year, his stature was so tall and athletic as
to give him the appearance of a young giant; and on being asked his age
at the police office, that it might be inserted in his passport, his
reply was received with a smile of astonishment and incredulity, which
afforded much subsequent amusement to his elder fellow travellers. At
the age of sixteen his strength and activity were so great, that few men
could have stood up against him with any chance of success. On his
return to Guernsey, every interest the family possessed was anxiously
exerted to indulge his wish of entering the British army, but owing to
the great reductions made after the peace of 1815, he was unable to
obtain a commission, even by purchase. Those relatives, who could best
have forwarded his views, had been slain in the public service; and in
that day few claims were admitted, unless supported by strong
parliamentary influence. He attended the levee of the
commander-in-chief, who promised to take his memorial into early
consideration; and it was hoped by the family that his tall and
strikingly handsome person would have had some influence; but
unfortunately the youth, then under sixteen, waited alone on the Duke of
York, and had no one to plead his cause or to promote his wishes. He was
accompanied as far as the Horse Guards by the late Lieut.-Colonel Eliot,
(see page 399,) who there, or in the neighbourhood, introduced him to
Sir