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 104 MEMOIR OF COLONEL TUPPER.

of ten brothers. The eldest, John, a contemporary of Lord Byron at Harrow, perished at sea, in the Medi- terranean, in 1812, aged twenty ; the vessel in which he was a passenger from Catalonia to Gibraltar having never been heard of since.* The third brother, William, aged twenty-eight, was mortally wounded near Can- dia, in 1826, as related in the preceding memoir. The fourth, Charles, aged sixteen, a midshipman of the at Spithead, by the upsetting of the boat in which he was accompanying his commander, Captain C. G. R. Phillott, from Portsmouth to the ship at St. Helen's ; he had just returned from the North American station, where the crew of the Primrose had been actively engaged during the war, in the destruction of priva- teers and in boat expeditions. The fifth brother, De Vic, is the subject of this memoir. The sixth, Brock, aged thirty, died in 1833, on board H. M's. packet Rinaldo, on his passage from Rio de Janeiro to Falmouth, for change of climate, and his remains were committed to the deep. The seventh, Frederick, when only nine years of age, was brought home insen- sible and speechless, and apparently at the point of death, having, in an attempt to reach the mast head of a vessel in the pier of Guernsey, fallen about twenty- five feet head foremost on the edge of the quay, whence he rebounded off into the harbour at low water, a further distance of sixteen feet : his skull was frightfully fractured and indented, and his life des- paired of for some time. A young officer of the 45th regiment, who was betrothed to their eldest sister, was

Frederick Barlow, of the 6lst regiment, and with his first cousin, William Potenger. The former fell gallantly soon after, at the head of his battalion, and the latter, an officer of the 22d regiment, died of the fever at Jamaica.
 * He went to the Peninsula with a friend of the family, Lieut.-Colonel

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