CAPTAIN F. ROLETTE.

AN officer who greatly distinguished himself on the lakes during the war of 1812-13, and received as a testimonial of his eminent services a splendid sword, which was voted to him by the legislature of Lower Canada.

COLONEL SCOTT, 103RD REGT.

COLONEL HERCULES SCOTT, of Brotherton, Scotland, was one of the heroes of 1812, and was killed on the 15th of August, in the same year, by receiving a musket ball in his breast, after leading the 103rd Regiment in the most gallant manner to the attack of Fort Erie, (having carried the out-works by assault, and the fort by escalade.) In him the service lost a most valuable, active, and zealous officer. He had the good fortune to acquire the respect and esteem of the militia, and of the inhabitants generally of both provinces, having been of the utmost service in bringing them forward, placing the greatest confidence in them, and instructing them how to be useful in the defence of their country against its invaders. His remains were interred the same evening in the presence of the survivors of his regiment, attended by the only three officers who came out of the fort unhurt, the regiment having retreated after the fall of their leader, in consequence of the Americans having blown up a platform, by which two hundred brave fellows were killed or wounded.

CAPTAIN BULGER.

CAPTAIN BULGER was a native of Newfoundland, and came to this province with his regiment at the breaking out of the American war. He received his appointment in the Royal Newfound

land regiment of foot as ensign, on the 26th October, 1804,promoted to the rank of lieutenant, 30th July, 1806, to that of captain, 23rd February, 1815. Captain Bulger served seven or eight years with his regiment in the North American provinces, previous to the American war in 1812, when he embarked for Canada. At that period the British forces amounted to only a thousand men, with a frontier of almost as many miles to guard. He was present with a detachment of his regiment at the first shot against the enemy. He was afterwards detached to the western frontier of Canada when invaded by the enemy, at which time the British troops did not exceed 300 of the 41st and Royal Newfoundland regiments, with about 600 of the Upper Canadian militia, and 500 Indians under their celebrated chief, Tecumseh. He was present at the final defeat and surrender of the invading force, as well as the capture of the enemy's fort, with 33 pieces of cannon, at Detroit, on the 16th August, 1812, for which action he received the silver war medal. Upon the dispersion of the enemy's force in the west, a portion of the British troops were transferred to the vicinity of Lake Ontario; he proceeded thither also, and during the remainder of the fall of 1812 he was constantly employed in command of detachments, and at times in armed vessels acting against the enemy. He was present at an engagement under Brigadier-General Vincent at Fort George, on the Niagar afrontier, in December, 1812, where the enemy were completely routed; their numbers being 10,000 men, while that of the British force did not amount to one-third.

He served under Sir James L. Yeo, the naval commander on the lakes, for a considerable time, and was the senior military officer appointed to the squadron. He was present with Captain Mulcaster, R.N., when that officer went in pursuit of the enemy, then descending the St. Lawrence to attack Montreal. He was present with him when he overtook and routed them. He was present and took part at the battle of Chrysler's Farm, when the enemy were defeated by 800 men, under Lieutenant-Colonel Morrison, aided and supported by Captain Mulcaster, with the flotilla of gun-boats. For this engagement he (Captain Bulger) received a clasp. He was chosen one of the officers destined for the relief of Michilimackinac in 1814; was present and took an able part in the capture of the enemy's schooners, which blockaded that island. He commanded the military portion, and Lieutenant Worsley, R.N., the naval portion of the squadron, which attacked and gallantly captured, by boarding, the two armed schooners Tigris and Scorpion, on the 3rd and 6th September, 1814. In this action he was severely wounded, and for this exploit he received the naval war medal and clasp. Immediately after the dispersion of the enemy at Michilimackinac, he proceeded to Fort McKay on the Mississippi, nearly 500 miles distant, in an open boat, suffering from an

unhealed breast-wound, which place the enemy were making great efforts to retake, but were prevented by his active and judicious management. His exertions in the management of the Indians amidst privations and hardships, and in allaying their discontents; in organizing them to encounter the enemy, and in removing from their minds at the peace, prejudices which might have proved detrimental to the British interest in a future war, fully indicate that he had been a very zealous officer, and skilled in the discharge of his duties. In 1822, he held the commission of governor of Red River, and during his administration the settlement progressed considerably. For upwards of thirty years he held the appointment of chief examiner of accounts in the office of the commander of the forces in this command. He was a faithful and conscientious friend in every station in life. His decease took place at Montreal, in March, 1858.

GENERAL SIR G. DRUMMOND, G.C.B.

THE subject of the following brief biographical notice, was the youngest child of Colin Drummond, Esquire, of Megginch, who at the time of his son's birth at Quebec, in the year 1771, held the appointment of paymaster-general to the forces, in the province of Lower Canada. This meritorious servant of the crown, a descendant of the ancient family of Drummonds, of Concraig in Perthshire, had a numerous offspring, several of whom died in their infancy. John, his eldest son, who inherited Megginch castle, from his uncle, Adam Drummond, married Lady Susan Fane, daughter of John, tenth earl of Westmoreland. His son Adam, a viceadmiral and knight commander of the Hanoverian Order of Guelph, married Lady Charlotte Menzies, eldest daughter of John, fourth duke of Athol, and relict of Sir John Menzies, of Castle Menzies in Perthshire. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, became the wife of John, Lord Hervey, eldest son of the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Frederick Augustus, fourth earl of Bristol, and bishop of Derry. Lord Harvey died at Florence, in 1796.

The youngest born of Mr. Drummond's family, Gordon, entered the army as an ensign, in the first (royal) regiment of foot, on the 21st September, 1789; and, after serving for some time on the staff of the Earl of Westmoreland, who was at that period lord-lieutenant of Ireland, he rose rapidly to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in

1794, and the same year was appointed to the command of the eighth (king's) regiment. In the command of this gallant corps, he served in Holland, under His Royal Highness, the Duke of York, where on all occasions he became distinguished, not only for cool determination, but for judgment also. At the siege of Mineguen especially, and more particularly at the sortie on the 27th October, 1795, his conduct was most conspicuous.

In the year 1800, after returning to England, along with the troops from the Netherlands, Lieutenant-Colonel Drummond proceeded in the command of his regiment to Minorca, in which island he was stationed until the autumn of 1800, when he accompanied the expedition to Egypt, under Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercrombie, when he was present at the landing of the army on the 8th March, 1801, as well as at the subsequent engagements of the 13th, the 21st, (when Sir Ralph fell mortally wounded) and at the battle of Rhamania, and finally at the surrender of Grand Cairo and Alexandria to the British army.

The ever memorable campaign in Egypt being gloriously terminated, in the events of which Colonel Drummond continued to sustain his high character as an officer, the 8th Regiment réceived orders to proceed to Gibraltar, and here commenced a friendship between his Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent and Colonel Drummond, which continued to the latest period of the duke's life. In the year 1805, the government contemplated sending out an expedition against some of the West India Islands, which still remained in possession of France, and Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote was selected to take the command of this force. Major-General Gordon Drummond being appointed second in command of the expedition, the troops composing which assembled at Cork, the original plan of operations, however, being abandoned, the various regiments were dispersed to different destinations, and Sir Eyre Coote proceeded to Jamaica, as governor and commander of the forces, Major-General Drummond being still appointed his second in command, as a general officer on the staff. He remained in that island until 1808, when he again returned to England, where, shortly af terwards, he married Margaret, second daughter of William Russell, Esq., of Brancipith Castle, in the County of Durham, and not long after he was appointed to the staff in Canada, where he served until 1811, in which year he once more revisited England, but did not remain long unemployed, as in the early part of 1812, he was selected to command the south-east district in Ireland, where his unremitting zeal and activity were found eminently useful in that disturbed country.

In August 1813, still retaining his post on the staff in Ireland, (having attained the rank of lieutenant-general in 1811), he received a communication from his Royal Highness the Duke of York, to acquaint him that the government were desirous he should proceed to

Canada, as second in command to Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, he accordingly, on the 1st of September, 1813, embarked, with his staff on board his Majesty's ship Ethalion, Captain Heywood, for Quebec, where he landed on the 3rd of November following. Without delay he proceeded to take command of the troops in Upper Canada; and the winter campaign of 1813-14 was characterized by His wonted promptitude and activity. On the 19th December, he ordered over a force to attack Fort Niagara, opposite Fort George. This strong fortress was situated at the mouth of the river Niagara, as it flows into Lake Ontario; and its possession was deemed of much importance by Lieutenant-General Drummond. The place was stormed, and fell into the hands of the British troops, along with an immense accumulation of stores, both naval and military, which had been laid up there for security by the enemy.

The next operation undertaken by Lieutenant-General Drummond was attended with an equally successful result. body of troops to the command of Major-General Reall, who crossed He entrusted a over the river Niagara, two miles lower down than Fort Erie, during the night of the 30th December, with a force scarcely exceeding one thousand men, and accompanied by five hundred Indian warriors. At daybreak on the 31st, the town of Black Rock was stormed, the garrison put to flight, and the position of the village of Buffalo subsequently carried.

In the early part of the month of May 1814, a combined operation was executed by a military force under the immediate command of Lieutenant-General Drummond, and the squadron, commanded by Commodore Sir James Yeo, on lake Ontario, the object of which was to destroy the works, barracks, &c., at Oswego, as well as to cripple the naval operations by capturing or destroying a large magazine of ship stores belonging to the American flotilla on the lake. The success of this judiciously planned expedition was complete, the American troops being routed, the town, batteries, and stores captured, and the damage to the enemy most extensive. .. The next occasion on which Lieutenant-General Drummond's active mind was engaged, took place in the summer of 1814, when towards the latter end of July he crossed over from Kingston, where his head quarters had been for two months established, to the Niagara frontier. On the morning of his landing at Fort George, he advanced towards the Falls of Niagara, where, at a position about a mile from the cataract called "Lundy's Lane," he encountered the American forces commanded by General Brown, and greatly superior in number to the British. menced at six o'clock in the evening of the 25th, and was maintained The action comwith great obstinacy throughout the entire night, until daybreak, when it was discovered that the enemy had decamped, and taken up a position behind the river Chippawa, leaving on the field their dead, and a considerable number of their wounded. During the

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