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BATHURST HENRY: (1762-1834) 3rd Earl Bathurst. English Politician who served as Foreign Secretary 18... - BATHURST HENRY: (1762-1834) 3rd Earl Bathurst. English Politician who served as Foreign Secretary 1809 and as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1812-27. A.L.S., Bathurst, two pages, 4to, Saltram [House, Plympton], 9th October 1822, to Hudson Lowe. Bathurst explains that he has been travelling and not been able to acknowledge receipt of his correspondent's letter earlier and continues to explain that the continuation of pensions from the widow to the daughters of general officers is met with difficulty, although adding 'But if the Duke of Wellington will make the application (and as General De Lancey served under him in the Peninsular, & it is for these services that the Pension is asked, the application ought to come from his Grace) I shall be very to review (?) it'. Bathurst also comments on a proposed memorial for a Lieutenant Colonel and writes that it is of so grave a nature 'that I should hesitate at any rate before I made such an application and I certainly do not think that the reason assigned by Lt. Col. Gorringer (?) sufficient, particularly as the Promotion was given to him on the termination of those duties for which he was rewarded'. With blank integral leaf. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Hudson Lowe (1769-1844) Anglo-Irish Soldier and Colonial Administrator, Governor of St Helena where he was the 'gaoler' of Napoleon Bonaparte. William Howe De Lancey (1778-1815) English Colonel who served during the Napoleonic Wars and died of wounds he received at the Battle of Waterloo. De Lancey and the Duke of Wellington were close allies and on the return of Napoleon Bonaparte from Elba, De Lancey was appointed deputy quartermaster-general of the army in Belgium, replacing Sir Hudson Lowe, whom Wellington disliked. Wellington was engaged in conversation with De Lancey on the battlefield when the Colonel received the wounds which ultimately led to his death. The Duke of Wellington described the events to Samuel Rogers such - 'De Lancey was with me and speaking to me when he was struck. We were on a point of land that overlooked the plain. I had just been warned off by some soldiers (but as I saw well from it, and two divisions were engaging below, I said ''Never mind''), when a ball came bounding along en ricochet, as it is called, and, striking him on the back, sent him many yards over the head of his horse. He fell on his face, and bounded upwards and fell again. All the staff dismounted and ran to him, and when I came up he said, ''Pray tell them to leave me and let me die in peace.'' I had him conveyed to the rear, and two days after, on my return from Brussels, I saw him in a barn, and he spoke with such strength that I said (for I had reported him killed), ''Why! De Lancey, you will have the advantage of Sir Condy in 'Castle Rackrent'--you will know what your friends said of you after you were dead.'' ''I hope I shall,'' he replied. Poor fellow! We knew each other ever since we were boys. But I had no time to be sorry. I went on with the army, and never saw him again' (from The Recollections of Samuel Rogers, 1856) One of De Lancey's two sisters, Susan, married Sir Hudson Lowe in December 1815.