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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vm. NOV. i, 1913.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED <11 S. viii. 310). 5. ROBERT ANDREWS. I wonder whether the Robert Andrews ad- mitted to Westminster School on 24 Jan., 1774, was the civilian of the East India Company's service of that name who died at Trichinopoly on 13 Nov., 1821, aged 58. These figures would make him 11 years of age when admitted to Westminster, and 15 when appointed a " writer " in 1778, both likely ages for such events in his life. Do the Westminster School Registers show <1) the age of Robert Andrews at the date of his admission, and (2) the date when he left the school ? If they do, and these point to a likely identity, I can give further information as to the career of Robert Andrews of the Madras Civil Service.

THE QUEEN OF CANDY (11 S. viii. 310). This portrait must be by Samuel Daniell. who arrived in Ceylon on 14 August, 1805, and died there on 16 December, 1811. There is an account of him in 'D.N.B.' He was a nephew of Thomas Daniell, R.A., and a brother of William Daniell, R. A. He published * A Picturesque Illustration of the Scenery, Animals, and Native Inhabitants of the Island of Ceylon, in Twelve Plates Engraved, after Drawings from Nature,' London, 1808. Possibly the portrait in ' The Oriental Annual ' is a reproduction of one of the plates in this l)ook, or of some other engraving published by Daniell. His copperplates, prints, water- colours, &c., as well as " coloured prints of Ceylon " by himself and his brother William, were advertised for sale at Colombo in 1812. among them. I have never seen or heard of any oil paintings by Samuel Daniell.
 * The Queen of Candy ' may have been

PENRY LEWIS.

HIGHLANDERS AT QUEBEC (11 S. viii. "308). The subjoined extract is taken from 'The Records and Badges of the British Army,' by H. M. Chichester and G. Burges- Short (Gale & Polden, 1899) :

"The old 78th (Highland) Regiment of Foot, or ' Fraser Highlanders ' of 1756-64.

" This old corps stands in the unique position, numerically, of being a common ancestor to two distinct regiments now united into one. The fol- lowing is a short notice of its origin and career.

" It was raised by Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, son of Simon, 9th Lord Lovat, who was executed in 1746 for complicity in the Rebellion. Fraser, an undergraduate ^at the University of St. Andrews, ,had left his studies by his father's desire to head the Fraser Clan when it followed Prince Charles Stuart into the field. He received the royal pardon, And was subsequently called to the Scottish Bar. On the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, Fraser,

who had refused tempting offers to enter the French Army, proposed to raise a regiment of Highlanders for the British service, an offer accepted by the elder Pitt. The corps was at first known as the 2nd Highland Battalion, but was speedily brought into the Line as the 78th (Highland) Regi- ment of Foot, and was sent off, in thirteen, com- panies, each of 105 rank-and-file, to America. The regiment, we are told, wore full Highland garb, the men carrying back-swords and dirks besides their regulation arms ; but there appears to be no record of the regimental facings and tartan. General Wolfe, in a letter to Lord George Sackville, speaks of the men of the regiment as ' very useful, service- able soldiers, and commanded by the most manly lot of officers I have seen.' The regiment won fame at Louisburg, and under Wolfe at Montmorenci and Quebec. It was subsequently at the defence of Quebec, and in the expedition against Montreal, which resulted in the final conquest of the Canadas. It remained in Canada until 1762, when it was sent with a small expeditionary force to retake St. John's, Newfoundland, which had been captured by the French. The regiment was disbanded at the peace of 1763, large numbers of the officers and men receiving grants of land in America. Fraser him- self was sent on special service to Portugal, and became a lieutenant-general in the Portuguese service. He afterwards raised the old 71st, or Fraser's Highlanders of 1777, mentioned in the pre- vious chapter. He died in 1782. It maybe per- missible to suggest that according to the rule followed in the case of other disbanded corps the two battalions' of the Seaforth Highlanders, the former 72nd (late 78th) Highlanders, and 78th High- landers or Ross-shire Buffs, have some claim to the Louisburg and Quebec honours won, but never worn, by the original 78th Highlanders."

J. H. LESLIE.

" Fraser's Highlanders," or the 78th Regiment, were present at the taking of Quebec in 1759, and contributed largely to the victory.

This regiment was raised in 1757, chiefly by the Hon. Simon Fraser, son of the cele- brated Lord Lovat, and he was appointed its lieutenant-colonel commandant.

At the conclusion of the war a number of the officers and men expressed a desire to settle in North America, and an allowance of land was given them ; the rest returned to England, and were discharged.

When the war of the American Revolution broke out upwards of 300 of those men who had remained in the country enlisted in the 84th Regiment, and formed part of the bat- talions embodied under the name of " The Royal Highland Emigrants."

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield, Reading.

The Highland regiment present at Quebec in 1759 was the 78th, the Master of Lovat's Fraser Highlanders, who were disbanded at the end of the war in 1763. In the fighting