NOTES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Royal Military Panorama Office, Strand, corner of
Catherine Street, May 30, 1814.

THE Correspondents of this work are requested to observe, that the Of fice is removed from 33, Orchard Street, Portman Square, to the corner of Catherine Street, Strand, where all Communications will be thankfully received, and have every attention. The Editor returns his most sincere acknowledgments to those Illustrious Characters, and gallant and distinguished General Officers, who, in the course of the last month, have come forward to promise a continuance of their support and patronage to his labours. It is only on particular occasions that we discover our real friends.

The Communication of A. D. C. is inadmissible. We have the greatest respect for the gallant General whose cause it is intended to plead, and would have rejoiced in also seeing his name in the late list of Peers; but the discussion of such matters is irrelevant to the design of this undertaking. The favours of A. D. C. on other military subjects will receive immediate attention.

The south-east part of the Map of France will be given in the next uumber of this work, and also a Sketch of the Campaign in France.

"Miles" is correct in his observation, and his favour will have due attention. We have other communications on the same subject.

Memoirs of General the Earl of Balcarres, Lieutenant-General D. Wemyss, Lieutenant-General Sir John Stuart, Lieutenant-General Sir Lowry Cole, and Major-General Sir Robert Wilson, will be given in early numbers of the Military Panorama. We are very desirous of giving a Memoir of the late General Melville, and shall be obliged by any of his friends' acquainting us whether there exists a portrait from which we can have an Engraving of him executed.

In reply to a letter, signed “A Lieutenant-General on Half-pay,” on the subject of the expected Grand Brevet, we must observe, that we have no doubt some measure will be speedily adopted for relieving those who, loaded with honours, have scarcely ought to subsist upon. Our opinion on this subject is, that a pay will be attached to the rank of General, Lieutenant-General, and Major-General, and all regimental Commissions rendered efficient.

Some very interesting original Narratives and Journals of Military Opera tions in Ceylon will be commenced in the following number.

Military Essays, Reviews of Military Works, Biographical Notes, Journals of Sieges, and every Military operation, will at all times be particularly attended to; and the authors of such communications may rest assured that the Editor will preserve an inviolable secresy as to their names, and when re. quested will confer with them personally on the subject of their communica

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by H. R Cook from the Picture. by W. Haines.

Published b 1 Barrington, Strand, June 1.1874.

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MILITARY BIOGRAPHY.

The late GENERAL SIR WILLIAM MEDOWS, K. B. Colonel of the 7th Dragoon Guards.

SIR WILLIAM MEDOWS, third son of Philip Medows, Esq. and grand-son to Sir Philip Miedows, Knight, Marshal; was born the 31st of December, 1738. In 1788 his second brother succeeded to the estate of his uncle, the late Duke of Kingston, and on that occasion took the family name of Pierrepoint. In 1796 he was elevated to the peerage, by the title of Lord Viscount Newark, and in 1806 to the Earldom of Manvers, which title he at this moment enjoys.

At the age of eighteen Sir William Medows entered the army, as an Ensign in the 50th Foot, and in the following year, November, 1757, he was presented with a Lieutenancy; and in 1760, on his regiment, the 50th, being ordered for service in Germany, this officer repaired thither and joined the allied armies under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, and the Marquis of Granby. Lieutenant Medows had now frequent opportunities of evincing his attachment to the profession of arms, and at this early period of his military career he became distinguished, as an attentive, active, and able Officer.

After his return from the Continent, in March, 1764, by cession of his elder brother, then Captain Evelyn Medows, he obtained a troop in the 4th regiment of horse, now called the 7th dragoon guards, and of which Lord Ancram, now Lord Lothian, was VOL. IV.

Lieutenant-Colonel. In October, 1766, Captain Medows succeeded to the majority of the same corps, and on the 31st of December, 1769, he obtained the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 5th foot. From the latter corps Lieutenant-Colonel Medows was removed in September, 1773, to the 12th light dragoons, and on the breaking out of the American war, as there was no prospect of the regiment he was in being employed, he exchanged, September, 1775, into the 55th, and with that corps repaired to America.

Even at this early period the talents of Lieut.-Colonel Medows were regarded in the most favourable manner by the leading military characters of the country: and the British Commander-in-Chief in America, fully sensible of this Officer's services, appointed him to the command of the 1st battalion of grenadiers. At the head of this gallant body of men Lieut.-Colonel Medows rapidly advanced his military reputation. He took an active part in every action, and with his gallant grenadiers, sustained the brunt of every brilliant contest. In the action at Brandywine, the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Medows called forth the most honourable and gratifying commendations from his superior Officers, who did not fail in their reports to the British government, to mention the assistance afforded them on all occasions by the subject of these memoirs. In the latter action Lieut.-Colonel Medows was wounded. In November, 1777, this Officer obtained the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 5th foot, and on the 25th of the same month the brevet rank of Colonel.

The interference of France, at this time, in the contest between Great Britain and her colonies, threatened to render ineffectual all our endeavours to recover them, and that the object of a three year's war would be at once destroyed by the unprovoked agression of that nation. The British cabinet determined, therefore, to strike a blow at the French West India Islands, and for this purpose the Commander-in-Chief in South America was directed to send a detachment of his army to act in that quarter. MajorGeneral Grant was accordingly appointed for this purpose, together with a body of chosen troops, and Colonels Prescot and Medows were nominated Brigadier-Generals to this army.

The troops from North America having rendezvoused at Barbadoes, were joined by others from Great Britain, and the capture of St. Lucie was determined upon as the first object of the ex