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THE FRASERS OF PHILORTH, LORDS SALTOUIS.
And again, on the 29th : — " I suppose people in England are half mad,
we hear of illuminations, etc. etc., to be sure the Victory is the greatest
that ever was gained, not only by us, but by any people, but it was at the
same time very dearly bought, the Gazette does not contain one-fifth of
the officers who have suffered in this business. I send you that of our
Reg*, as you may hear them asked for.
"Killed—
" Lt. -Colonel Stables.
Captain Grose.
Ensign
Pardoe.
F. D'Oyly.
,, Chambers
JT
Lord Hay.
,, Thomas.
,, Cameron.
„
Barringt
on.
Miller.
,, Brown.
„ Milnes.
" Wounded —
Colonel Askew. Lt. -Colonel Townshend. Captain Adair.
Ensign Batty.
„ Stuart. „
Cooke. „
Streatfield
Barton.
H. D'Oyly.
Clements.
Bruce.
Bradford. ,,
Bridgeman
Fludyer.
Hardinge. ,,
Ellis.
Lascelles
Lord F.Somerset. „
Simpson.
Mure.
»
Luttrell.
Croft.
„ Burgess.
" We had 82 officers of the regiment in the held, of which 34 have been
killed or wounded; 1 so shot, you will perceive, did not fly very thin that
morning. I should have mentioned Stables in my first letter, but I did not
know what had been his fate. I saw him fall, and the next morning when
I wrote, I did not know what sort of a wound he had received, and I did
not like sending a false report of his death, although, from the way he fell,
I was much afraid of him."
In these letters Lord Saltoun mentions having had two horses killed
under him ; when each fell the saddle was, of course, ungirthed, and with the
cloak rolled up across the pommel, was placed upon another horse. After
the battle, when his batman unrolled the cloak, no less than seventeen
musket-balls were found in it, many of which must have been fatal had they
not been stopped by the cloak. It is said that the batman, who had previ-
1 The above list is not quite correct, though out of the eighty-two officers in the field. Lord
very nearly so; the name of Lieutenant-colonel Saltoun, in the hurry of writing, says thirty-
George Fead slightly wounded, being omitted, four, though he names thirty-five in his list,
which makes thirty-six killed and wounded