ther. His brother, as appears by the returns
which have come home, had been wounded, or was upon the sick list; but
it does not appear that he had then actually received any communication
upon that subject; and which, if he had received any such, might have
been expected to be proved, and might easily have been so. That his
brother was in fact upon the sick list appears, but not that he then
knew him to be so; nor did he intimate to the servant that came, one
word of apprehension about his brother, or any mention of his health or
of him, but came back immediately on receiving this note. Now, with the
acquaintance he had with De Berenger, no doubt such application had been
made to get him appointed as is proved; and he must have been, one would
suppose, familiar with his hand-writing; and _if so_, he could have had
no doubt who was the person from whom he received this note, and whom he
was to meet when he should get home; but he says, "I found Captain De
Berenger, who, in great seeming uneasiness, made many apologies for the
freedom he had used, which nothing but the distressed state of his mind,
arising from difficulties, could have induced him to do; all his
prospects, he said, had failed, and his last hope had vanished of
obtaining an appointment in America. He was unpleasantly circumstanced
on account of a sum which he could not pay; and if he could, that others
would fall upon him for full L.8,000. He had no hope of benefitting his
creditors in his present situation, or of assisting himself. That if I
would take him with me, he would immediately go on board and exercise
the sharp-shooters (which plan I knew Sir Alexander Cochrane had
approved of;)" and there is no doubt that Sir Alexander Cochrane had, on
some application of Mr. Cochrane Johnstone or Lord Cochrane, applied for
him, but that for reasons not communicated to us, such application had
not been successful, and it had not been thought fit to appoint him.

Then he says, "That he had left his lodgings, and prepared himself in
the best way his means allowed. He had brought the sword with him which
had been his father's; and to that and to Sir Alexander, he would trust
for obtaining an honourable appointment. I felt very uneasy at the
distress he was in, and knowing him to be a man of great talent and
science, I told him I would do every thing in my power to relieve him;
but as to his going immediately to the Tonnant, with any comfort to
himself, it was quite