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The last of the cavalry regiments was raised in Essex and the adjoining counties in July, 1715, and was first commanded by Brigadier-General Philip Honywood. It now bears the title of the " llth (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars" :

Lord Mark Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons.

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

Cornets

Lord Mark Kerr (1). Hugh Warburton John Maitland

( William Leman -! Francis Bushell ^Robert Hepburne

William Gardner (2) .,

AVilliam Robert Adair I Alexander Steuart I James Warren I Gustavus Hamilton. . I George Maxwell

George Whitmore Gilford Killegrew Gabriel Bilson John Gore Musgrave Davison Lord Robert Kerr (3)

Dates of their present commissions.

29 May 1732, 24 Jan. 1733-4. 31 May 1732.

3 May 1720. 31 May 1732. 13 May 1735.

26 July 1722.

18 Oct. 1717.

3 May 1720.

13 Feb. 1720-30.

10 Aug. 1737.

30 Mar. 1739.

10 Nov. 1721.

11 May 1731. 10 Aug. 1737.

6 April 1739.

12 July 1739. 16 ditto.

(1) Lieutenant-General. 4th son of Robert, 1st Marquess of Lothian. He died in 1752.

(2) Of Coleraine. Father of Alan G., 1st Baron Gardner. He died in 1762.

(3) Second son of William, 3rd Marquess of Lothian. He was killed in the battle of Culloden, 1746.

The cavalry regiments on the British establishment end here.

J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List). (To be continued.)

'THE OBSERVER,' 1791-1916.

THE proprietors of The Observer have cele- brated the removal of its offices from Newton Street to its new home in Tudor Street by the issue of a quarto booklet in which are given a view of the n^-w premises and a portrait of the present editor of the paper, Mr. J. L. Garvin.

The Observer is the oldest of the existing Sunday papers, having been founded by William Tnnell Clement (' D.N.B.,' vol. xi. p. 33), who on Perry's death in 1841 pur- chased The Morning Chronicle. He was also proprietor of The Englishman and Bell's Life. Whatever profits he may have made, he at any rate contributed considerably to the Government funds. In an article which appeared in The Westminster Review, Janu- ary, 1829, it is recorded that he had paid during the previous year for stamps 45,5977. 15s., duty on advertisements 5,185Z. 15s. 6rf., and on paper 2,735Z. 10s., making a total of 53,519J. Os. 6d., or more than a thousand a week. On the occasion of the coronation of George IV. a double number of The Observer, with illustrations of

the ceremony, cost the paper 2,OOOZ. for stamp duties, 60,000 of this number being circulated. In the same year the enterprise with which the paper was conducted was further shown. On the 17th of April, 1820, the trial of the Cato Street conspirators commenced, and the paper took the daring step of giving a report of the proceedings, for which breach of the antiquated law against the press it became liable to a fine of 500., although the penalty was remitted.

The Observer was among the first papers to make any important development in giving illustrations, and Mr. J. D. Symon, in his bright little account of ' The Press and its Story ' (Seeley, Service & Co., 1914), tells how it found its greatest field in the illustration of crime, particularly on the occasion of the murder of Mr. Weare, when the matter was gone into perhaps somewhat too fully, and " the taste of such minute details was called in question, but the com- mercial value was indisputable." This pandering to vulgar taste was not persisted in, and the paper soon began to take the