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 ]. ‘The Nature, Obligation, and Efficacy of the Christian Sacraments Considered,’ London, 1730, 8vo. ‘Supplement’ to the foregoing tract published the same year. ‘Advice to a Young Student,’ London, 1730; 3rd ed. Cambridge, 1760; London, 1761. ‘Regeneration Stated and Explained,’ London, 1740, 1780, 8vo. ‘A Summary View of the Doctrine of Justification.’ ‘An Inquiry concerning the Antiquity of the Practice of Infant Communion.’ The two last tracts first appeared posthumously with Waterland's ‘Sermons,’ ed. J. Clarke, London, 1742, 2 vols. 8vo; 2nd ed. 1776.

A collective edition of Waterland's works, with engraved portrait and a review of his life and writings by [q. v.], bishop of Llandaff, appeared at Oxford in 1823, 10 vols. 8vo. The last volume is chiefly made up of letters, to which may be added ‘Fourteen Letters to Zachary Pearce,’ ed. Edward Churton, Oxford, 1868, 8vo, and ‘Five Letters to William Staunton,’ appended to the latter's ‘Reason and Revelation Stated,’ London, 1722, 8vo. Four letters to the elder [q. v.] are in Stowe MS. 749, ff. 273–49.



WATERS, JOHN (1774–1842), lieutenant-general, was born in 1774 at Tyfry, near Welsh St. Donats, Glamorganshire. His grandfather, Edward Waters of Pittcott, was high sheriff of Glamorganshire in 1754. His father, whose name is not ascertained, died young, leaving a large family. The Marquis of Bute obtained a commission for the son in the 1st (royal Scots) foot on 2 Aug. 1797. He joined the second battalion in Portugal, and served with it in the expedition to the Helder in 1799, and the expedition to Egypt in 1801. He had become lieutenant on 15 Feb. 1799, and in reward for his conduct during the mutiny at Gibraltar in 1802 the Duke of Kent obtained a company for him in the York rangers on 24 Sept. 1803. He remained, however, with the royal Scots, and went with it to the West Indies. On 28 Feb. 1805 he was promoted captain in that regiment, to which two new battalions had been added, and soon afterwards he returned to England.

In August 1808, owing to the Duke of Kent's recommendation, he was made aide-de-camp to Brigadier (afterwards third Marquis of Londonderry) [q. v.] He went with him to Portugal, and served in Moore's campaign. Sent out to obtain intelligence of the French movements in December, he bought from the Spaniards at Valdestillas an intercepted despatch from Berthier to Soult, which gave Moore most important information, and at once altered his plans. He was promoted major on 16 Feb. 1809, and was attached to the Portuguese army (with the local rank of lieutenant-colonel), but employed on intelligence duties. Wellington wrote of him on 26 Oct., when he was going home for a time with Stewart: ‘He has made himself extremely useful to the British army by his knowledge of the languages of Spain and Portugal, by his intelligence and activity. I have employed him in several important affairs, which he has always transacted in a manner satisfactory to me; and his knowledge of the language and customs of the country has induced me to send him generally with the patrols employed to ascertain the position of the enemy, in which services he has acquitted himself most ably.’ He wished to have him definitely placed on his staff. The most conspicuous instance of his serviceableness was at the passage of the Douro on 12 May. The French had broken the bridge and removed the boats, and they had ten thousand men on the opposite bank. ‘Colonel Waters, a quick, daring man, discovered a poor barber who had come over the river with a small skiff the previous night; and these two being joined by the prior of Aramante, who gallantly offered his services, crossed the water unperceived, and returned in half an hour with three large barges’ (, bk. vii. chap. ii.). In these barges the first troops passed.

On 3 April 1811, before the action of Sabugal began, Waters was made prisoner. ‘He had crossed the Coa to reconnoitre the enemy's position, as had been frequently his practice, without having with him any escort, and he was surrounded by some hussars and taken. He had rendered very important services upon many occasions in the last two years, and his loss is sensibly felt’ (Wellington to Lord Liverpool, 9 April 1811, Despatches, vii. 433). He refused his