Ox October 26th a dispatch from England arrived at Lisbon, appointing Lieut.-General Sir John Moore to command the whole army which was to co-operate with the Spanish troops in the north of Spain, consisting of 30,000 infantry and 5000 cavalry, with artillery, part of them coming direct from England, and the remainder to be regiments drafted from the army then in Portugal. The difficulties of the British general were great; the roads through Portugal were very bad; the rainy season was setting in; transport was hardly to be obtained, because the Government had sent little money to pay for it; time pressed, for a great French army was crossing the Pyrenees.

Moore urged on the preparations, so that the headquarters with the main body quitted Lisbon on October 26th, and followed the road by Abrantes, Almeida, and Ciudad Rodrigo, while Sir John Hope's Division marched by Talavera and Madrid. Sir David Baird's forces had landed at Corunna on October 13th, and were to co-operate with Moore in the north.

Meanwhile the 92nd had marched along the bank of the Tagus twenty and twenty-five miles every day, through a most

* Sir John Moore was born at Glasgow, November 13th, 1761, and was educated at the public school and University of that city. He then travelled abroad and gained a knowledge of Continental languages, and acquired that suavity and elegance of manner for which he was remarkable; in 1776 he joined the 51st Regiment at Minorca as ensign, and afterwards distinguished himself in the West Indies under Sir Ralph Abercromby, who characterised his conduct as "the admiration of the whole army.' He served in the Rebellion in Ireland, in Holland 1799, in Egypt 1801, when he was twice wounded, but declined to leave the field. He had been selected to instruct Light Infantry Regiments in an improved system of drill; he had commanded the army in Sicily and the expedition to the Baltic, from which he had just returned. He was brave, chivalrous, and high spirited, and commanded the respect of the soldiers, to the increase of whose comforts he devoted a large part of his attention.-Alison and others.