letter of the 3rd inst., and the account you give me of the siege. I hear so seldom from thence that I should be very glad if you would write to me every evening, when the post comes away from Brussels, how it goes forward. Your letters may be left at Oudenard, from whence they will be forwarded to me by express. I would readily oblige you in your request of going for England, but that, having sent twice already, I do not think it proper to send you. However,” &c, &c. He was promoted to be a Brigadier, 2nd April 1709, and on the 11th September following, he was killed in action. He was unmarried, and his estate was administered to in London by female relatives.
[The anxiety manifested to administer to his estate has given us some information as to the relations of General De Lalo. It appears that his full name was Samson De Vesc De Lalo. In 1709 (November 29), his aunt, Mary, wife of Jacob de Drevon, in the kingdom of France, obtained letters of administration as his next of kin; but these were revoked in 1716 (June 14) in favour of John Le Clerc De Virly, attorney of Francis de Vesc De Lalo, brother of the deceased, and of Judith Roux, alias Judith de Vesc De Lalo (wife of Stephen Roux), sister of the deceased, both residing in France. The above proceedings were in the Prerogative Court in London. There was also a process before the Commissary Court at Edinburgh, on 23d June 1715, when Mary Johnston, relict of Mr. Alexander Montgomery, merchant, a creditor, was confirmed his executrix, and an asset was minuted, viz., arrears amounting to £41, 2S. 3d. sterling, due to him as captain-lieutenant of the first battalion of foot-guards.]
Luttrell says:— “October 1700, Monsieur La Loo, a French Huguenot, is made standard-bearer to the yeomen of the guard.” The name occurs frequently. On 10th September 1705 was baptised at St. Peter’s, Chichester, Richard De Lalo Spicer, son of Luke Spicer and Elizabeth [De Lalo?]; Susanna Spicer, a daughter of the same couple, was married at Chelsea on 22nd September 1724, to a husband of Huguenot name, Peter Lefebur. On 16th April 1726 Philip Laloe of St. Clement Danes, London, married Jane Judith Delpech. On 7th February 1749 a “Miss Laloe, with £10,000,” was married (see the Gentleman’s Magazine).
16. A cavalry field-officer also fell at Malplaquet, named Antoine Du Perrier, son of Mark du Perrier, a refugee of noble birth, who settled in Ireland about 1685. From this officer descends the family of Perrier of Cork. Three of his great-grand-sons were Sir David and Sir Anthony Perrier, knights, sheriffs, and mayors of Cork, and George Ferdinand Perrier, merchant in that city. The elder son of the last-named was Sir Anthony George Perrier, C.B., British Consul at Brest (born 1793, died 1867); his official connection with Brest was of forty-three years’ duration, and he was respected and beloved. He was made a C.B. in 1859 for his conduct in Paris as British Delegate to the European Sanitary Conference of 1851-2, on which occasion the Prince-President (Napoleon) had given him a gold medal. It was in 1843 that he was knighted for his services in the International Commission on Fisheries.
17. In the Artillery and Engineers Goulon and Cambon have been already named. Luttrell says, “Monsieur Le Roch, the Huguenot engineer, did more execution before Lisle in three days than D‘Meer, the German, in six weeks.” Weiss says, “The refugee John De Bodt, devoted his whole life to the defence of the cause for which he was proscribed. Born in Paris, he fled to Holland at the age of fifteen, and was recommended to the Prince of Orange by General De Gor, chief of the Dutch artillery. He accompanied the Prince to England, was made captain of artillery in 1690, and was afterwards placed at the head of the corps of French engineers. William III. employed him in eight sieges, and four great battles — those of the Boyne, Aghrim, Steinkirk, and Nerwinde. At the siege of Namur, it was he who, in the capacity of chief of Brigade, directed the triumphant attack on the castle. In 1699 he removed to Brandenburg.”
18. Pierre Carle was born at Valleraugue, in the Cevennes, about 1666. He first took refuge in Geneva, next in Holland, next in England. Next he went back to Holland on the invitation of a powerful patron, on whose death he studied mathematics, and in six months qualified himself as a military engineer. He came to England with William, and served under the King in Ireland and Flanders, and was wounded before Namur. He was fourth engineer in the service, and received a pension of £100. He accompanied Lord Galway to Portugal, and was present at the taking of Alcantara. John V. made him Lieutenant-General in the Portuguese army (and afterwards a full General, it is said), and engineer-in-chief, and pressed him to settle in Portugal. Peter Carle was a naturalized subject of England, and was true to his adopted country; but he consented to reside as a foreign visitor in Portugal till 1720, when he returned to London, and renounced arms for agriculture. He died at London, 7th October 1730; his wife’s maiden name was Aubertine
