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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED
<11 S. viii. 310). 5. ROBERT ANDREWS.
I wonder whether the Robert Andrews ad-
mitted to Westminster School on 24 Jan.,
1774, was the civilian of the East India
Company's service of that name who died
at Trichinopoly on 13 Nov., 1821, aged 58.
These figures would make him 11 years of
age when admitted to Westminster, and
15 when appointed a " writer " in 1778, both
likely ages for such events in his life. Do
the Westminster School Registers show
<1) the age of Robert Andrews at the
date of his admission, and (2) the date
when he left the school ? If they do, and
these point to a likely identity, I can give
further information as to the career of
Robert Andrews of the Madras Civil Service.
THE QUEEN OF CANDY (11 S. viii. 310). This portrait must be by Samuel Daniell. who arrived in Ceylon on 14 August, 1805, and died there on 16 December, 1811. There is an account of him in 'D.N.B.' He was a nephew of Thomas Daniell, R.A., and a brother of William Daniell, R. A. He published * A Picturesque Illustration of the Scenery, Animals, and Native Inhabitants of the Island of Ceylon, in Twelve Plates Engraved, after Drawings from Nature,' London, 1808. Possibly the portrait in ' The Oriental Annual ' is a reproduction of one of the plates in this l)ook, or of some other engraving published by Daniell. His copperplates, prints, water- colours, &c., as well as " coloured prints of Ceylon " by himself and his brother William, were advertised for sale at Colombo in 1812.
- The Queen of Candy ' may have been
among them. I have never seen or heard of any oil paintings by Samuel Daniell.
PENRY LEWIS.
HIGHLANDERS AT QUEBEC (11 S. viii. "308). The subjoined extract is taken from 'The Records and Badges of the British Army,' by H. M. Chichester and G. Burges- Short (Gale & Polden, 1899) :
"The old 78th (Highland) Regiment of Foot, or ' Fraser Highlanders ' of 1756-64.
" This old corps stands in the unique position, numerically, of being a common ancestor to two distinct regiments now united into one. The fol- lowing is a short notice of its origin and career.
" It was raised by Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, son of Simon, 9th Lord Lovat, who was executed in 1746 for complicity in the Rebellion. Fraser, an undergraduate ^at the University of St. Andrews, ,had left his studies by his father's desire to head the Fraser Clan when it followed Prince Charles Stuart into the field. He received the royal pardon, And was subsequently called to the Scottish Bar. On the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, Fraser,
who had refused tempting offers to enter the
French Army, proposed to raise a regiment of
Highlanders for the British service, an offer accepted
by the elder Pitt. The corps was at first known as
the 2nd Highland Battalion, but was speedily
brought into the Line as the 78th (Highland) Regi-
ment of Foot, and was sent off, in thirteen, com-
panies, each of 105 rank-and-file, to America. The
regiment, we are told, wore full Highland garb, the
men carrying back-swords and dirks besides their
regulation arms ; but there appears to be no record
of the regimental facings and tartan. General
Wolfe, in a letter to Lord George Sackville, speaks
of the men of the regiment as ' very useful, service-
able soldiers, and commanded by the most manly
lot of officers I have seen.' The regiment won fame
at Louisburg, and under Wolfe at Montmorenci and
Quebec. It was subsequently at the defence of
Quebec, and in the expedition against Montreal,
which resulted in the final conquest of the Canadas.
It remained in Canada until 1762, when it was sent
with a small expeditionary force to retake St.
John's, Newfoundland, which had been captured
by the French. The regiment was disbanded at the
peace of 1763, large numbers of the officers and men
receiving grants of land in America. Fraser him-
self was sent on special service to Portugal, and
became a lieutenant-general in the Portuguese
service. He afterwards raised the old 71st, or
Fraser's Highlanders of 1777, mentioned in the pre-
vious chapter. He died in 1782. It maybe per-
missible to suggest that according to the rule
followed in the case of other disbanded corps the
two battalions' of the Seaforth Highlanders, the
former 72nd (late 78th) Highlanders, and 78th High-
landers or Ross-shire Buffs, have some claim to the
Louisburg and Quebec honours won, but never
worn, by the original 78th Highlanders."
J. H. LESLIE.
" Fraser's Highlanders," or the 78th Regiment, were present at the taking of Quebec in 1759, and contributed largely to the victory.
This regiment was raised in 1757, chiefly by the Hon. Simon Fraser, son of the cele- brated Lord Lovat, and he was appointed its lieutenant-colonel commandant.
At the conclusion of the war a number of the officers and men expressed a desire to settle in North America, and an allowance of land was given them ; the rest returned to England, and were discharged.
When the war of the American Revolution broke out upwards of 300 of those men who had remained in the country enlisted in the 84th Regiment, and formed part of the bat- talions embodied under the name of " The Royal Highland Emigrants."
CONSTANCE RUSSELL.
Swallowfield, Reading.
The Highland regiment present at Quebec in 1759 was the 78th, the Master of Lovat's Fraser Highlanders, who were disbanded at the end of the war in 1763. In the fighting
