consider with the highest esteem and gratitude to the loyal and patriotic inhabitants of this noble city.
“In all our endeavours to prevent this city from falling into the iron grasp of the most despotic tyranny that ever disgraced mankind, we have been animated by the example of firmness, constancy, and devotion to the great and glorious cause in which we are mutually engaged, so eminently shewn by the brave people of Cadiz during such a length of time, under circumstances the most distressing and irritating, and to that of the Royal Spanish Marine, with whom we have ever had a pride in co-operating. " The services of the British officers and men who have so long served in the flotilla in whose welfare you have been kindly pleased to interest yourselves, are duly appreciated by me, and I have not failed to represent them to the notice of the British government.
“That this noble city may long enjoy prosperity, and that freedom which its inhabitants so richly deserve, is, gentlemen, the sincere wish and prayer of your devoted and very obedient humble servant,
“A. K. Legge, Rear-Adm. Com. H.B.M.’s
“ships in Cadiz Bay.
“Their Excellencies the Aejantamiente of Cadiz.”
Some time after his return to England, Rear-Admiral Legge was appointed to the command in the river Thames, and hoisted his flag in the Thisbe frigate, off Greenwich, where it continued during the remainder of the war. He was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral, June 4, 1814; and nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815. At the funeral of our late Monarch he assisted in the quality of a Groom of the Bedchamber.
Residence.– Blackheath, co. Kent.
RIGHT HONORABLE
GEORGE, EARL OF GALLOWAY,
Viscount Garlies; Baron Stewart of Garlies; Knight of the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle; Vice-Admiral of the White; and Lord Lieutenant of Kircudbright Stewartry.
This nobleman is descended from Sir John Stewart, of Bonkill, second son of Alexander, sixth Lord High Steward of Scotland, who obtained from King Alexander III, a grant of the lands of Garlies, in 1263[1], succeeded Sir William Wallace in the chief command of the Scots, and was killed at
- ↑ Sir John Stewart was grand-uncle of King Robert II., the first Scotch King of the name of Stewart.
