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 ordinaires du Roi en son Hotel, by a patent, still extant dated July 6, 1579, and signed by Henri IV.

Samuel, great grandson of Jean Horace Pechel, found an asylum in Ireland, after the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and obtained a pension from King William, together with a commission in the regiment commanded by Marshal Schomberg.

The subject of this memoir is the eldest surviving son of the late Major-General Sir Thomas Brooke-Pechell, Bart., M.P. for Downton, in Wiltshire, and a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to her late Majesty, Queen Charlotte (great grandson of Mons. Samuel Pechel); by Charlotte, second daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir John Clavering, K.B., Commander-in-chief in India ; mid grand-daughter of John, first Earl of Delawarr.

Mr. was born Sept. 1, 1785. He