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 PRECEDING THE INVASION. 167 and of a dauuhter of Admiral Boscaweu. He was chap. XII born iu 1788. He entered the army in 1804. _ In 1808, Sir Arthur Wellesley, upon sailing for Portugal, attached the young Lord Fitzroy Somerset to his staff;* and during his career in the Peninsula he kept him close to his side first as his aide-de-camp, and then as military secretary. Between the time of the first restora- tion of the Bourbons in 1814, and the Hight of Louis XVIII. in the spring of the following year. Lord Fitzroy Somerset was secretary of the Em- bassy at Paris. It was during this interval of peace that he married Emily Wellesley, a daugh- ter of the third Earl of Mornington, and a niece of the Duke of Wellington. When the war was renewed, he again became military secretary and aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, and served with him in his last campaign. At Water- loo — he was riding at the time near the farm of La Haie Saintc — he lost his right arm from a shot. But he quickly gained a great facility of writing with his left hand ; and, the war being ended, he resumed his function as secretary of Embassy at Paris There he remained until 1819. He then returned to England, and became sec- retary to the Master-General of the Ordnance. In 1825 he went with the Duke of Wellington to St Petersburg as secretary of h^mbassy. In 1827 Wellesley until just as lie was startiiit,' for the Peninsula. Sii Arthur Wellesley and Lord Fitzroy Somerset sailed in the same shiis and they worked together at the Spani.sh language.
 * Lord Fitzroy Somorsut was not introduced to Sir Arthur