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 892 CAULFIELD. which Lord Charlemont behaved with distinguished bra very, and at the attack of the fort, fearlessly marched int the works at the head of his men. He was near the Princ f Hesse when he fell, and continued, during the heat o the action, to perform his duty with great coolness and intrepidity. When the affair was ended, the Earl o Peterborough presented his lordship and Colonel South well to the King of Spain, as two officers who had rendere his majesty signal services, for which they received his thankful acknowledgments,. The taking of this place occasioned the surrender ot arcelona on the 9th of October, 1705, and the share his lordship had in this memorable action, induced her majesty on the 25th of August, to promote him. to the rank of brigadier-general of her armies; and on the 22nd of April 1708, to advance him to that of a major-general, calling him into her privy council, and appointing him governo of the counties of Tyrone and Armagh. In 1706 he was removed from his regiment by the Earl of Peterborough. In May 1796, he was sworn of the privy council to King George I. and having enjoyed the peerage upwards of fifty-five years, was considered the oldest nobleman in his majesty's kingdoms. He died on the 21st of July, 1726, and was buried in the vault with bis father and grandfather, under a fine monu- ment, which he had erected to their memories, at Armagh He was married on the 11th of July, 1678, to Anne nly daughter of Doctor James Mengetson, Archbishop of Armagh, and by her (who died in 1729) had five daugh- ters and seven sons, the second of whom is the subject of the following memoir. to JAMES CAULFIELD, EARL OF CHARLENONT. This nobleman, one of the most accomplished persons of his time, and as amiable, pa triotic, and truly honest man, as perhaps ever adorned any age or country, was born at Dublin on the 18th of