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 98 THE NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS. 1790 Lists and Eegimental Succession Books is his appointment as ensign in the 98th Foot, date 7th October, 1781; he was TOrvicee. promoted to the rank of lieutenant on the 4th July, 1783; captain on the 5th June, 1789 ; major on 4th November, 1795 ; and lieutenant-colonel on the 19th January, 1798. iSStenants. ^^^ lieutenants — ^Macarthur, Poveaux, Townson, and Abbott — all held Commissions in various branches of the British army prior to joining Grose's force. Macarthur. Macarthur settled in the colony after the recall of the Corps, and became one of the most remarkable figures in Foveaux. our histoiy. Poveaux, prior to the departure of the Corps, attained the rank of major, and was entrusted with the Lieutenant-Governorship of Norfolk Island. He continued in the service after his return to England, and was raised in 1830 to the rank of lieutenant-general. He died in London in 1846, at the advanced age of eighty-six. SSrftud That Grose himself had a high opinion of the Corps as a for the whole, and was resolved to maintain its credit as far as possible, may be gathered from his action in the case of Ensign Duberly. While a portion of the Corps was at Portsmouth this officer was guilty of '^ repeated neglects and misconduct," and Grose was obliged to place him under arrest. He would readily have released the offender, he explained in a letter to Sir George Tonge, if an acknow- ledgment of error had been made; but the young officer obstinately refused to apologise or ''make the slightest concession," preferring rather to be tried by Court-martial. Grose therefore asked that a General Court-martial might be assembled, but two days later he wrote another letter to the Secretary of War, informing him that Duberly had made " much concession," and that, therefore, he wished to with- huiiMuiit ^^^^ *^® application. He was desirous, he said, of giving Mr. Duberly another chance, and added : — " I am the more anxious to avoid (if possible) his being brought to a Court- martial from an idea that, exclusive of this young man's