greater part of the contest, the Linnet was engaged with the Eagle, an American brig of much superior force, mounting twenty heavy guns and one hundred and fifty men, which vessel he completely beat out of the line. Cooper, in his "History of the American Navy," little as he seems inclined to allow credit to the British, virtually admits this fact. He says, "the Linnet had got a very commanding position, and she was admirably fought. Eventually, the Linnet was compelled to strike, but not until the other vessels of the squadron had hauled down their colors. Captain Downie, who commanded the British squadron, was killed; and Commander Pring was the senior surviving officer of the squadron at the courtmartial subsequently held at Portsmouth, at which he was most honorably acquitted. For his services, he was, in 1815, promoted to the rank of post captain; and, on the 26th June, 1816, was appointed to a command on lake Erie. He was nominated to the West India station, on the 16th September, 1844, and early in 1846, he hoisted his broad pendant as a commodore of the second class on board her Majesty's ship Imaum, at Port Royal, Jamaica, where he succeeded in making himself highly esteemed and respected, and where he unfortunately died of yellow fever, November 29, 1847. His remains were conveyed to Halfway Tree, where they were interred, in the presence of a numerous and distinguished company of public officers and private inhabitants.

LIEUT.-COLONEL CECIL BISSHOPP.

THE name of a young, brave, and successful British officer, in the war of 1812, who sacrificed his life in the service of his country.

Colonel Bisshopp was the son of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, Bart., afterwards Baron de la Zouche, of Parham, Sussex, England, and the descendent of an ancient and honored family of England. He was born in Spring Gardens, London, on the 25th June, 1783; and at the early age of sixteen, entered the military service in the 1st Foot Guards. He represented Newport, in the Isle of Wight, for some time in Parliament, and was attached to the embassy of Admiral Sir John Borlace Warren to Russia, and spent a year at St. Petersburg, from whence he was sent home with despatches in 1803. Having served with distinction in Flanders, (where he was aide-decamp to General Grosvenor de Walchen,) and in Spain and Portu

gal, he proceeded to Canada in 1812, and had the satisfaction of at once being placed on active service on the Niagara frontier, in which he displayed much gallantry on several occasions, and early in July, 1813, set out in command of an expedition to reduce Black Rock; in this he was perfectly successful, all the enemy's stores, block houses, barracks and dock-yards were burned to the ground, and an immense quantity of stores captured; but the gallant Bisshopp was not destined to reap the benefit of this undertaking; an attack was made by the Americans on his forces, while they were examining the stores; and, although the enemy was beaten off, it was at the sacrifice of their brave young commander, who fell mortally wounded on the field, and soon after expired. His death was lamented by all, for he was universally loved and esteemed.

He was buried at the village of Stanford, near Niagara Falls, where a monument is placed over his remains by his sorrowing relations, with these lines written by the Right Honorable Sir R. Wilmot Horton, Bart :

"Stranger whose fearful steps e'er now have stood,

Beneath Niagara's stupendous flood,

Whose mind with awful ecstasy elate,

Heard, in the mighty rush, the voice of fate.

Pause o'er this shrine, where sleeps the young, and brave,
And shed one gen'rous tear o'er Cecil's grave.

On the tablet to his memory at the family burial place, Parham, are placed these lines, written by Sir James Macdonald :— "His pillow not of sturdy oak,

His shroud, a soldier's simple cloak,

His dirge, will sound till time's no more,
Niagara's loud and solemn roar.

There Cecil lies-say where the grave,
More worthy of a Briton brave."

SIR W. H. MULCASTER, R.N., K.C.H.

ANOTHER name well known in the annals of our last war with the United States is that of Sir William Howe Mulcaster, C.B., K.C.H., K.T.S., who afterwards attained great honors, became a post captain in the royal navy, and naval aide-de-camp to the king. He was born in 1785, and died at Dover on the 2nd March, 1837.

Sir William was a son of the late Major-General Mulcaster, of the Royal Engineers. He was made a lieutenant early in 1800. In

June, 1806, when first lieutenant of the Minerva, he had the command of two boats, which, after carrying a fort of eight guns commanding Finisterre bay, captured five Spanish luggers and chasse-marées; this was characterized by Earl St. Vincent as a very neat exploit, conducted by an officer whom he "felt great pride in acknowledging as an élève of his own." In the following month his lordship had also the satisfaction of reporting "another instance of the enterprising spirit of Lieutenant Mulcaster," which was in a similar service, when a Spanish lugger and privateer were captured.

In January, 1809, Lieutenant Mulcaster served at the capture of Cayenne, as first of the Confiance, 22, when his captain, the late Sir J. L. Yeo, acknowledged that "to my first lieutenant, Mr. W. H. Mulcaster, I feel myself principally indebted for the very able support I have received from him throughout; though it was no more than I expected from an officer of his known merit in the service." The Prince Regent of Portugal distributed presents to all the officers engaged; to Lieutenant Mulcaster his Royal Highness gave a gold sword, with a suitable inscription; and on the 30th September, 1825, Sir William received his Majesty's permission to wear the insignia of the Tower and Sword, which had been presented to him for his services on this occasion.

He was made commander May 13, 1809; and appointed to the Emulous sloop, on the Halifax station, about October, 1810. He captured l'Adéle letter of marque, August 26, 1811, and the Gossamer, American privateer, July 30, 1812; but on the 3rd of August following the Emulous was wrecked on Sable island.

In March, 1813, Captain Mulcaster was appointed to the Princess Charlotte, 42, then building on lake Ontario. He was promoted to post rank December 29 following. On the 6th May, 1814, only twenty-two days after the launching of the Princess Charlotte, he received a dangerous wound, when storming Fort Oswego, from the effects of which he never recovered. He was assigned in compensation a pension of £300, and was nominated a C. B. in June, 1815.

He married October 13, 1814, Sophia Sawyer, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Van Cortlandt.

CAPTAIN JENKINS,

A YOUNG and brave officer, a native of New Brunswick, and a captain in the Glengarry Fencibles. He distinguished himself at the taking of Ogdensburg on the 21st February, 1813, by his gallant and intrepid conduct in leading 150 men against Fort La Présentation, which they attempted to carry, and finally succeeded in doing;-not, however, before the chivalrous Jenkins had lost both his arms by grape shot, and sank exhausted from loss of blood on the field. He survived the war several years. He was a man of a remarkably fine appearance, full of spirit and of great bravery. He did honor to the loyal province of New Brunswick.

LIEUT.-COLONEL R. B. HANDCOCK, 13TH REGT.,

WAS one of the most gallant of our defenders in 1812; he was born in 1780, and died at Pisa, on the 4th May, 1854. He was the son of the late Matthew Handcock, Esq., deputy muster-mastergeneral of the forces in Ireland, descended from the Venerable Matthew Handcock, archdeacon of Kilmore, the son of William Handcock, Esq., M. P. for Westmeath, a common ancestor of the Lords Castlemaine. Having graduated in the university of Dublin, with distinguished honors, he joined his regiment in 1798, at the age of eighteen. His first campaign was under Sir Ralph Abercrombie at the memorable landing in Egypt in 1801, when he was severely wounded. He was afterwards on active service in various parts of the world for upwards of twenty years; and, during that time, served in Canada in 1812-13-14, where he greatly distinguished himself in command of Lacolle Mill, situated a few miles near Rouse's Point, and where on the 30th March, 1814, and with a small force of not five hundred men, and those not of the best, and a scarcity of ammunition, he successfully and with the greatest spirit held out against the attack of the American General Wilkinson, with a force of more than five thousand! History does not furnish a brighter victory, for such it may be termed, than that which he achieved with a comparatively small loss, against a well

organized army, composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery. They kept up an incessant fire on the mill during the whole day; and at length were compelled to abandon an enterprise, from which they only escaped with a great loss, sustained by the well effected fire of Handcock's small force.

LIEUT.-COLONEL LEONARD.

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RICHARD LEONARD entered the army as an ensign in the 54th Foot, in December, 1796, and became lieutenant in the February following. After serving in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, he embarked from Southampton, and joined Sir Ralph Abercrombie in the Mediterranean. He served the campaign of 1801 in Egypt, and was assistant-engineer during the siege of Alexandria. 1803 he was appointed town-major of New Brunswick; and in 1805 he obtained a company in the New Brunswick regiment, afterwards the 104th Foot, and continued to hold both these appointments until 1813, when he resigned the former, on his regiment being ordered to Canada. In April he was appointed deputy-assistant-adjutantgeneral; and in that situation obtained permission to head his company in the attack made on Sackett's Harbor, on the 29th of May, in which his company suffered severely, until he was himself

wounded.

In the campaign of 1814 he was again actively employed. He bore a part in the action of the 25th of July at Lundy's Lane, and was honorably mentioned in Sir Gordon Drummond's despatches of that action. In the assault on Fort Erie, on the 15th of August, he was severely wounded, and disabled from further service in the campaign. He succeeded to the majority vacated by the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Drummond, who was killed at Fort Erie, and served with the 104th in Lower Canada until it was disbanded in 1817. He subsequently retired to a small property he had purchased, part of the ground on which the action of Lundy's Lane was fought, and there closed his honorable career, on the 31st October, 1833, universally regretted by the people of that portion of the country, and a large circle of friends in the province.