Note 30 — REGIMENTAL LISTS.

This was “the same man who, eighteen years before, at St. Vincent, had broken the stern galley window of the San Nicholas, and led the way for Nelson to the quarter-deck of the Spanish vessel.” He appears to have been a Scotchman, with a keen sense of humour, as, when a man was killed by his side, by a long shot from the enemy, on the morning of Waterloo Day, he quietly remarked, “Aweel, it is time for a respectable non-combatant to gang awa’!”—Sir W. Butler’s Records of 69th Regt. D. as Qr.-mr. 69th Foot, at Cannanore, India, 1821.