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    Loudon , Baron Hastings , Hungerford , Botreaux , Moleries and Rawdon , and a Baronet in Ireland ; a Knight of the Garter , Grand Cross of the Bath ; , a General Officer ; Colonel of the 27 th Foot ; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of

    Malta ; Constable of the Tower of London , and Lt > rd Lieutenant and Costos Rotuloram of the Tower division ; F . R . S ., F . S . A . and M . R . I . A ., was born on the 7 th December , 1754 . He was early destined for the military profession , and went with the army to America on the breaking out of the war with the colonies . He acted as a Lieutenant in the 5 th

    company of Grenadiers in the battle of Bunkers Hill , on which occasion he so distinguished himself that General Burgoyne , in his despatches , passed upon him this eulogy : " Lord Rawdon has this day stamped his fame for life . " His military talents soon gained the confidence of the Commanders in this contest , and procured for him the appointment of

    Adjutant-General to Sir William Clinton ' s army , under whom and Lord Cornwallis he acquired high military reputation . While he served in America he attained the rank of Brigadier . The decline of his health , from the fatigues he had undergone , compelled him to return to England , when he was created a Peer of Great Britain , and appointed Aid-de-Canip to the King . On the death of the Earl of Huntingdon he succeeded to the

    estates , and took the name of the Hastings , Earls of Huntingdon . Shortly after this period he acted as second to the late Duke of York , in a duel with Colonel Lenox , the late Duke of Richmond , who considered himself dishonoured by a report which had been spread by his Royal Highness in relation to same part of Colonel Lenox ' s conduct . On the death of his father , Lord Rawdon succeeded to the estates and the Earldom of Moira in

    Ireland . At the commencement of the French Revolutionary War he attained the rank of Major-General . He was sent with a force to assist the Duke of York in Flanders , who was pressed by the French army , and effected a junction with his Royal Highness in a manner which gained him high credit .

    He was afterwards appointed to command the body of French emigrants and British troops , who were destined to land at Quiberon , one of the most foolish , not to say iniquitous , measures adopted during the whole of the war . The emigrants who landed , carrying with them a proclamation to the French nation , penned by a celebrated loyal pamphleteer of

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    the day , were soon taken and executed ; but the remainder of the troops , being dispersed by contrary winds , , failed to make the shore , and therefore escaped . In 1805 , Lord Hastings was appointed Commander-in-Chief in Scotland ; and in 1806 , Master General of the Ordinance . On the accession of his present

    Majesty to the Regency , he received the Order of the Garter . In 1816 , he was created Marquis of Hastings ; shortly after this he was appointed Governor-General of India . This high office he held for some years , in the opinion of some , with great splendour and honour , but not to the full satisfaction of the

    regal directors , who meanly withheld from him the pecuniary grant usually made in such cases . On his return from India , he was appointed Governor of Malta , an office which was considered rather as a retreat under circumstances of pecuniary embarrassment , than as a reward for his eminent public services . On the 20 th of November , his Lordship quitted Malta for Naples , on board his Majesty ' s ship , the Revenge , for the benefit of his health . On his arrival at the

    latter place he was found too weak to land , and the ship came to anchor in Baia Bay , where his Lordship expired in the presence of his Lady and daughters , on the 28 th of November . His Lordship married , in July 1804 , the Countess of Loudon , by whom he has left issue George Augustus Frederic Earl of Rawdon , now Marquis of Hastings , born February 4 , 1808 , And three daughters .

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    Nov . 17 , at York , at an advanced age , and after a painful and lingering illness , which he bore with patience and resignation , Mr . John Walker , one of the original founders of the Society of Unitarian Baptists of that city . In early life Mr . Walker carried on the trade of a

    watch-case maker in London , but having come into possession of a small competency , and his health being delicate , he quitted business and retired to York . Here he joined the late Mr . Francis Mason and his friends , who , from their personal studies of the Scriptures , had been led to

    give up their Trinitarian creed . An interesting account of this little society maybe seen in Mr . Eaton ' s " Narrative of the York Baptists . " Mr . Walker was an occasional preacher , and officiated as often as the state of his health permitted . " Mr . Walker , " our correspondent writes ' * was sincere , conscientious and

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    124 Obituary . '—Mr . John Walker .

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    John Walker .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/44/