Note 57 — THE GOLD CROSS AND CLASPS.[55]
Reading edition
Some correspondence had taken place on the subject with the Marquis of Wellington, as appears by the following:—
“Freneda, 16th. March, 1813.
“I have received your letter of the 24th. February, in regard to the medals, and I concur entirely with you regarding all the improvements you propose on the subject. You have provided a remedy for a difficulty which I could never get over in a way at all satisfactory to myself. I likewise agree with you in the propriety of having a cross with eight bars, or a star with eight points, for those who are entitled to more than seven distinctions. I am not certain that it would not be best that all general officers, as well as others, should wear the medal or cross at the button-hole, till they should receive the last distinction. It is very awkward to ride in round the neck.”
“To Earl Bathurst.”
The Wellington Dispatches.