Note 25 — HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SECOND,

Major-General Alexander Stewart attained the rank of Captain in the Thirty-seventh Foot in 1761; and was promoted to be Major of the same regiment on the 9th of August, 1771. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Third Foot on the 7th of July, 1775; Colonel in the army on the 16th of May, 1780; and Major-General on the 28th of April, 1790. In the campaigns of 1794, in Flanders, he commanded the First Brigade of British infantry, from which he retired in consequence of ill health, brought on by severe fatigue about a month previous to his death. General Stewart was of Afton, in Wigtonshire, and Member of Parliament for Kirkcudbright.