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 12 s. viii. MAY 2i, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 405 to you as soon as he arrives. But I have another business of the same kind on hand, and I may just as well have two shots as one ; and, Doctor, as a friend of mine, I trust you will assist me with the " smoothing irons," ' meaning pistols. I replied that I knew not where to get anything of the kind, but that I trusted things would turn out amicably. He said, ' It cannot be ' ; and after that I had no communication with him except through his friend. What took place afterwards you have already heard from Captain Morice, which I beg most solemnly to assure you is in every respect correct ; and I am convinced that Captain Morice, as well as myself, was actuated in accepting the unpleasant office by a sincere desire to prevent the unfortunate result, which I, in common with him and Captain Rudkin, so deeply deplore. " Gentlemen, there is one circumstance which has escaped the notice of my friend, Captain Morice, which, I am sure, you will consider as an additional proof of our anxious desire to prevent the lamentable termination of the unfortunate meeting ; and that is, gentlemen, that the distance which we fixed upon for them to fire was nearly five paces more than is usual on such occasions. In the unfortunate affair of Mr. Uniacke and Mr. Bowie, th* distance at which they fired was twelve paces, and that distance is scarcely or never exceeded. . . . " Gentlemen, I have now been in the army ever since the year 1812, and served under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular campaigns in the following years, afterwards in Flanders, and since then in the West Indies till 1824, when I was obliged to return to England in consequence of ill-health, where I had scarcely been two months when I was ordered to join the Royal Veteran Companies to which I have now the honour to belong ; and, gentlemen, during this long period of service, I do most solemnly declare that I do not recollect having had a single dispute with a brother-officer. Unfortunately for me, I am, as it were, a stranger among you. There is not, to my knowledge, a single person in the island to whom I was known previous to my joining my present corps. But, gentlemen, I trust that the character you will hear from my brother-officers of my conduct since they have known me will fully satisfy you that it is not my disposition to inflame disputes among my friends. . . ." Wallingford. H. E. RUDKIN, Major. (To be concluded.) AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (See 12 S. ii. passim; iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438; vi. 184, 233, 242, 290, 329; vii. 83, 125, 146, 165, 187, 204, 265, 308, 327, 365, 423; viii. 6, 46, 82, 185, 327.) THE date of formation of the next regiment (p. 76) is somewhat obscure, but it is supposed to have been raised about 1702. It has borne various titles : The 33rd Regiment of Foot. 1751-82. 33rd (or The 1st Yorkshire, West Riding) Regiment of Foot. 1782-1853. 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot. 1853-81. The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). 1881-1920. In 1920 its title was changed to " The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)." Colonel Johnson's Regiment of Foot. Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Major Captains Captain- Lieutenant John Johnson Lord Primrose (1) Henry Greeme, dead William Eccleston (2) Humphrey Browne. . Robert Sampson (3) j Henry Clement (4). I Thomas Godfery j John Ecles I Thomas Lacy Peter Lafaussille Dates of their present commissions. Dates of their first commissions. 15 Dec. 1738 Captain, June 1727 1 Dec. 1722 26 June 1710 24 April 1709 2 April 1733 1 Aug. 1720 13 Aug. 1739 22 Nov. 1739 22 Nov. 1739 Ensign, Ensign, 13 Sept. 1717 Ensign, 8 Mar. 1701 Ensign, 7 April 1708 Ensign, 22 Mar. 1725 Lieutenant, 6 June 1710 ditto 1 June 1715 Ensign, 25 Mar. 1715 19 Jan. 1715 (1) Hugh, 3rd Viscount, stepson of the Earl of Stair. Had previously served in the Inniskilling Dragoons. Died at Wrexham, May 8. 1741, aged 38. (2) Maj^r, June 7, 1741. (3) Of Hillbrook, Co. Dublin. Major, April 23, 1740 ; Lieut.-Colonel, June 7, 1741. Died 1764. (4) Lieut.-Colonel, Sept. 24. 1744. Killed at the Battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745.