water, nor were we molested till the night of the third day, when the Arabs of the country attacked and killed my master. "Was any one killed besides your master?—I was wounded, but cannot say if any were killed. "Were you sleeping near your master?--Yes. "How many wounds had your master?-I cannot say; they were all with swords; and in the morning I saw the head had been cut off. "Did the person who had charge of your master commit the murder? Sheik Burbasch, who accompanied the Rels, killed him, being assisted by his black servants with swords, when asleep. "What did the sheik then do? -He went on to his country. An Arab took me back to Timbuctoo. "What property had your master when he was killed?-Two camels: one carried the provisions; the other carried my master and his bags. "Where were your master's papers?-In his bag. "Did you endeavour to preserve them? I was so stunned with the wound, I never thought of the papers. "Were the papers brought back to Timbuctoo?-I don't know." And this Arab thus deposes before the Kadi of Tripoli : By the following statement, however, from the "Semaphore," of Marseilles, it appears that the above-named Hassouna D'Ghies is strongly suspected of having been an accessary to major Laing's assassination, and of having obtained the unfortunate traveller's papers, and subsequently disposed of them to the French consul. "It was about three years ago, that major Laing, son-in-law of colonel Warrington, consul-general of England in Tripoli quitted that city, where he left his young wife, and penetrated into the interior of Africa. After having crossed the chain of Mount Atlas, the country of Fezzan, the desert of Lempta, the Sahara, and the kingdom of Ahades, he arrived at the city of Timbuctoo, where he fixed his abode for some time, and had composed the journal of his travels. He was preparing to return to Tripoli, when he was attacked by Africans, who were watching for him in the desert. Laing, who had but a weak escort, defended himself with courage: but in this engagement he lost his right hand, which was struck off by the blow of a yatagan. Not long afterwards, some people of Ghadamis, who had formed part of the major's escort, arrived at Tripoli, and informed colonel Warrington that his relation had been assassinated in the desert. An uncertain report was soon spread that the papers of major Laing had been brought to Tripoli by people of Ghadamis; and that a Turk, named Hassouna D'Ghies, had mysteriously received them. Colonel Warrington was long engaged in persevering researches, and at length succeeded in finding a clue to this horrible mystery. The Pacha, at his request, ordered the people who 2 M 2 had made part of the major's escort to be brought from Ghadamis. The truth was at length on the point of being known; but this truth was too formidable to Hassouna D'Ghies for him to dare to await it, and he therefore took refuge in the abode of Mr. Coxe, the consul of the United States. The Pacha sent word to Mr. Coxe, that he recognised the inviolability of the asylum granted to Hassouna; but that the evidence of the latter being necessary in the prosecution of the proceedings relative to the assassination of major Laing, he begged him not to favour his flight. Colonel Warrington wrote to his colleague to the same effect. How ever, Hassouna D'Ghies left Tripoli on the 9th of August, in the night, in the disguise, it is said, of an American officer, and took refuge on board the United States corvette Fairfield, captain Parker, which was then in the roads of Tripoli, and weighed anchor on the 10th of August, in the morning. "The Pacha, enraged at the escape of Hassouna, summoned to his palace Mohamed D'Ghies, brother of the fugitive, and there, in the presence of his principal officers, commanded him to declare the truth. Mohamed fell at his master's feet, and declared upon oath, and in writing, that his brother Hassouna had had major Laing's papers in his possession; but that he had delivered them up to Baron Rousseau, for a deduction of forty per cent on the debts which he had contracted in France, and the recovery of which this person was endeavouring to obtain by legal proceedings. "The declaration of Mohamed extends to three pages, containing details respecting the delivery of the papers of the unfortunate major, and all the circumstances of this strange transaction. The shape and the size of the major's papers are indicated with the most minute exactness; it is stated that these papers were taken from him near Timbuctoo, and subsequently delivered to the person above mentioned entire, and without breaking the seals of red wax. "Mohamed, however, after he had left the palace, fearing that the Pacha, in his anger, would make him answerable for his brother's crime, hastened to seek refuge in the house of Baron Rousseau, and to implore his protection. Soon afterwards the consul-general of the Netherlands, accompanied by his colleagues the consuls-general of Sweden, Denmark, and Sardinia, proceeded to the residence of the person pointed out as the receiver, and in the name of colonel Warrington, and by virtue of the declaration of Mohamed, called upon him instantly to restore major Laing's papers. He answered haughtily, that this declaration was only a tissue of calumnies; and Mohamed, on his side, retracted his declaration, and even went so far as to deny his own hand-writing. "The Pacha, in a transport of rage, sent to Mohamed his own son, Sidi Ali. Mohamed, threatened with being seized by the chiaoux, retracted his retractation; and, in a new declaration, in the presence of all the consuls, confirmed that which he had made in the morning before the Pacha and his officers." MEMOIR of LIEUT. GENERAL SIR HENRY CLINTON, G. C. B. G. C. H. COL. of the THIRD REGIMENT. This distinguished officer was the second son of general sir Henry Clinton (who commanded in chief in America, during a great part of the war of the Revolution in that country), and was educated at Eton. He first began his active public life in the sea-service, in compliance with the suggestions of his father. In the year 1786 he embarked as a midshipman, in the Salisbury, captain Erasmus Gore, carrying the broad pennant of commodore Elliot, and went to Newfoundland. He returned in the autumn of that year; but he had suffered so much from seasickness (a malady from which he was, whilst on ship-board, seldom free), that he found it impossible to continue in the naval service. On this account he determined to quit it for a military life, and went abroad for the purpose of learning the French and German languages, and otherwise qualifying himself for his new profession. In the course of the years 1787, 8, and 9, he resided at Tours and Valenciennes, visited several parts of France and Germany, and was finally induced by favourable circumstances to take up his residence at Maestricht, which was then chiefly garrisoned by the troops of Brunswick, in the pay of Holland, and under the command of general de Reidesel. His father was not only well acquainted with that officer (who had served during the American war with a body of German troops in the pay of England), but, having acted as aide-de-camp to the then reigning duke of Brunswick, during the seven years German war, from his consequent intimacy with that sovereign prince, obtained leave for his son to serve temporarily in one of the Brunswick battalions. In that service he continued from the autumn of 1788 to the end of the summer of 1789; during which interval he passed through every duty, from that of the common soldier to that of the corporal, sergeant, and sub-lieutenant, as is customary in the German service. While thus employed, he was, on the recommendation of the late duke of Gloucester, appointed to an ensigncy in the 1st regiment of Foot Guards, and joined that corps in the autumn of 1789; from which time, till the end of the campaign of 1815, his life was a series of active, and for the greater part of it, of very distinguished, military service. From the time he joined the Guards, to the commencement of the long war of the French Revolution, every leave of absence that he obtained from the regiment was passed in visits to the Continent, with a view to professional improvement. During these excursions, besides visiting Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, and other interesting parts of Germany, he took an opportunity of attending the Prussian reviews. In the campaigns of 1793 and 4, he served as aide-de-camp to his late royal highness the duke of York, in Flanders and Holland. In the course of 1793 he was present at the affair in the Wood of St. Amand, the battle of Famars, the siege of Valenciennes, and the attack of Dunkirk, and in 1794 at the affair of Vaux (the news of the successful result of which he was selected to convey to his late majesty), and the attack of the 10th of May, near Tournay. On the last occasion he was severely wounded, which prevented him from being actively employed till the autumn of that year, when he again joined his royal highness. In the year 1796, being very anxious to engage in more active service than he could have done as aide-de-camp in England, he went with the expedition under the late sir Ralph Abercrombie to St. Lucia, and afterwards joined the 66th regiment, of which he had recently been appointed lieutenant-colonel, at Port-au-Prince, St. Domingo. Here his health was severely affected by the climate; and as there did not appear the least probability of any active operations in that island, his friends obtained an exchange for him into the 1st regiment of Guards, which he again joined in the course of the year 1797. He had in the interim been taken prisoner on his passage to Europe, and carried to Nantes, and it was not without much difficulty that he obtained an exchange. In the summer of 1798 be embarked with the 3rd battalion of the 1st Guards for Ireland, and there served that short but active campaign, when he was appointed aide-de-camp to the lord-lieutenant, marquis Cornwallis, who placed him temporarily at the head of the 3rd battalion of Light Infantry, and, on the invasion of the French under general Humbert, in the autumn of that year, called on him to act on his personal staff. In the summer of 1799, lord William Bentinck having been charged with a military mission to the Austro-Russian army in Italy, then under the command of marshal Suwarrow, lieutenantcolonel H. Clinton was appointed to accompany him; served during the remainder of that campaign, at the head-quarters of the Russian marshal, and was present at the battles of the Trebia and Novi, and at the sieges of Alexandria and Tortona, and the attack of Serravel. At this latter place, while observing it in a rather exposed situation, he received a slight contusion on the shoulder. In the autumn of that year, marshal Suwarrow having been ordered to march with his victorious Russians over the Alps for the purpose of joining the Russian corps under general Korsakow in Switzerland, which was threatened with an attack from the French army under general Massena, lieutenant-colonel H. Clinton was selected by lord Mulgrave, then on a mission to the emperor of Austria, to accompany the Russian commander-in-chief." The advanced season of the year rendered that enterprise in the highest degree perilous; though happily executed, it was not accomplished without the severest exertions, the loss of a considerable number of men, and some very sharp fighting; more especially near the famous pass of the Teufels-Bruch, and in the Muttenthal. On the subsequent retreat of the allied army, and withdrawal of the Russian troops from the scene of action, lieutenant-colonel H. Clinton returned to England, and was on the point of joining his old chief, the marquis Cornwallis, in Dublin, when he was selected to go on a military mission to the Austrian army, under the command of the arch-duke Charles, and was present in the actions which took place in Swabia and Bavaria in the early part of that campaign (1800). When that army, after the disasters of general Melas in Italy, desisted from all active operations, lieutenant-colonel H. Clinton availed himself of the opportunity to visit Salzburg and its environs, and at the approaching Austrian peace of Luneville, after passing a short time at Vienna, he returned to England, when he was employed on the staff of the adjutant-general's department. In 1803 he embarked for the East Indies, having been appointed adjutant-general to the king's troops in that country. On his arrival he proceeded immediately up to Agra, at that time besieged by the commander-in-chief; but owing to impediments on the road (his baggage being plundered by banditti, and himself detained for want of bearers), he did not reach the place till just as it surrendered. He was afterwards present, and commanded with great distinction on the right of the army, at the battle of Laswarree. In the month of September of that year, he was promoted to the rank of colonel by brevet; and all appearance of further active operations in India being at an end, colonel H. Clinton resigned his lucrative staff situation, and returned to Europe. In the year 1805, he was charged with a military mission to Berlin, and was proceeding with important despatches to the head-quarters of the Russian army, when, on arriving at Neustadt in Silesia, he heard of the disastrous day of Austerlitz. He nevertheless proceeded to Troppau; but, after communicating with the British ambassador to the Court of Russia, he returned to Berlin, and thence to England, as the repeated defeats of the Austro-Russian army precluded all hope of success in the object of his mission. In the summer of 1806, he embarked with the 3rd battalion of Guards, part of the brigade then proceeding to Sicily, and served in that island till the latter end of 1807, commanding a battalion, composed of the flank companies of the Guards, and stationed for the greater part of the time at Syracuse. Upon seeing these troops, the late sir John Moore observed, "that excepting his own regiment (the 52nd) he had not seen any corps that was so much to his mind what a battalion should be, to be considered perfectly efficient for service, whether in garrison or the field." The brigade of Guards having been withdrawn from Sicily, colonel H. Clinton returned to England early in 1808, and in the spring of that year, he was appointed to the command of a brigade, forming part of the troops which proceeded in the month of May, under sir John Moore, to Sweden. On his return to England after the conclusion of that service, he was appointed adjutant-general to the forces then embarking, as a reinforcement to the troops which had recently landed under the command of lieutenant-general sir Arthur Wellesley, in Portugal, and he joined that army with the then commander of the |