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 To be standing Lieutenants. — Messrs. La Charetiere, Defaux, sen.; Delpy, Natalis.

To be reformed Lieutenants. — Messrs. Dufaux, jun.; Soubiron, Francis Claris.

To be standing Ensigns. — Messrs. Janisson, Joseph Gerard Depuichcain, Stephen M.

To be reformed Ensigns. — Messrs. Brasselay, Beaumour.

Messieurs Peter Grindor, Charles Quinzac, Peter Barcus, David Bellegarde, James Dalterac, Isac Falquier, Peter Massot, Francis Granier, Peter Petat, John Granon, James Guyzot, John Duval, Peter Nicolas, Simon Martin, Joseph Danroche, Charles La Riviere, Dosseville.

The senior officers in 1719 (says Hiberniae Notitia) were Colonel Solomon de Loche and Brigadier and Colonel Vimare (or Veymar). Its half-pay in 1719 amounted to £1925, and in 1722 to £2182.

Colonel Cambon, or Du Cambon, received the colonelcy of one of the Huguenot foot regiments in 1689. He was also an Engineer; but in Ireland he was indisposed to do duty in that department, and displayed ill-temper and insubordination when the Duke of Schomberg projected some military engineering employment for him. The Duke then intimated to him that he had power to dispense with his services as Colonel of Infantry also. Goulon, reputed to be a great engineer, did not conduct himself well in Ireland; and he and Du Cambon were perpetually quarrelling. Schomberg privately reported to the King this distracting feud, as well as Du Cambon’s insubordination; but, if Dalrymple’s translation were right, Cambon would have been petrified on the spot on being dubbed with the ugly and incomprehensible designation, “a mathematical chicaner!” I believe the expression which Schomberg used meant only “a wrangler over his mathematics” — (chicanier sur ses mathematiques). Cambon profited by Schomberg’s hint and promptly returned to subordination and decorum: so that the very next day he was made Quarter-Master General.

The following officers had been unable to proceed to Ireland on account of age or sickness:— Lieutenants De la Chancellerie, De la Vonte Bemecour, Pegat, and Bourdin. Schomberg defended the colonel from the injurious accusation that his regiment had not 150 men. “I can assure your Majesty,” wrote Schomberg, 10th February 1690, “that though, since they came into winter quarters, many of Cambon’s regiment have died, yet 468 healthy men have survived, and a good recruit of 70 men, who were levied in Switzerland, arrived within these eight days.” One of the officers who died was Le Sieur de Maisonrouge, a captain. At the blockade of Charlemont this regiment and La Caillemotte’s did their duty well; and at the Battle of the Boyne both regiments were much exposed and fought with conspicuous bravery. Mr Story gives us a specimen of Cambon’s temper, though he seems to have overlooked the fact that the Colonel was also Quarter-Master-General. The time of the anecdote is the day after the victory of the Boyne, when the regiments were forming into a camp.

“Monsieur Cambon had almost set his own and my Lord Drogheda’s regiment by the ears, by ordering a detachment of his men to take away by force the grass from the rear of the other regiment. The matter came so high that both regiments were charging their pieces. But my Lord Drogheda ordered his men to their tents, and LieuL-General Douglas ordered Monsieur Cambon to desist from his pretensions. This might have been of dangerous consequence; and yet my Lord was so kind to Monsieur Cambon as not to acquaint the King with it.”

In 1691 Cambon is mentioned among the officers who advised the storming of Athlone. Samuel de Boisrond was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of Cambon’s, 12th September 1690 (he was at the head of the half-pay list in 1719 and 1722, with a pension of £219). At Aughrim this regiment lost one captain, one lieutenant, one ensign, and ten soldiers; the wounded consisted of four captains, four lieutenants, four ensigns, and thirty-five soldiers. Luttrell has an entry, headed Deal, Feb. 1693 — “Colonel Cambon was petitioned against by his inferior officers for mismanagement, and stopping their pay, and the King has discharged him.” Poor Cambon seems to have been seized with fatal illness upon this sad catastrophe, and, as a mark of sympathy, the formal appointment of a successor was postponed during the remaining months of his life. This we infer from observing that Colonel Cambon died on August 9th, and that the date of the commission of the Comte de Marton