This officer commenced his career in the army, as an ensign in the grenadier guards, on the 17th April, 1783, and served with them to the close of the American war. He was promoted lieutenant and captain on the 3rd June, 1791, and from the end of 1793 till the return of the army in May, 1795, he served under his Royal Highness the Duke of York in Flanders, being present at the different actions between those periods. On the 12th June, 1795, he succeeded to a company, with the rank of lieut.-colonel; on the 29th April, 1802, was appointed colonel by brevet; and brigadier-general on the Home Staff in December, 1805. In July, 1806, he commanded a battalion of the foot guards in Sicily; in August, 1807, was appointed brigadier-general in Sicily; and in 1808 joined the army in Spain under Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, where he commanded a brigade in the reserve, and was present at the battle of Corunna, for which he obtained a medal. He commanded the first brigade of foot guards on the Walcheren expedition in July, 1809, and on the 25th October following was promoted to the rank of major-general. In 1810 he was ordered to Cadiz as second in command, and in the succeeding year was appointed to the command there. On the 4th June, 1814, he was advanced to the rank of lieutenant-general, and on the 23rd July of that year His Majesty King George III. conferred on him the colonelcy of the FIFTEENTH regiment; and on the 7th April, 1815, he was nominated a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath. He was promoted to the rank of general on the 10th January, 1837, and died on the 19th April, 1846. GENERAL SIR PHINEAS RIALL, K.C.H. _Appointed 24th April, 1846._ (From the seventy-fourth, Highland regiment.) APPENDIX. _Battle, Sieges, &c., in the Netherlands, during the reign of_ KING WILLIAM III., _from 1689 to the Peace of Ryswick, in 1697_. Battle of Walcourt 25 August, 1689 ---- Fleurus 4 July, 1690 Mons surrendered to the French 10 April, 1691 Namur ditto ditto 20 June, 1692 Battle of Steenkirk 3 August, ---- Furnes and Dixmude captured -- Sept., ---- The French lines at D'Otignies forced 10 July, 1693 Battle of Landen 29 July, ---- Surrender of Huy 17 Sept., 1694 Attack on Fort Kenoque 9 June, 1695 Dixmude surrendered to the French 16 July, ---- Namur retaken by King William III. 25 July, ---- Citadel of Namur surrendered 5 Sept., ---- Treaty of Ryswick signed 11 Sept., 1697 _List of Sieges, Battles, &c. in the Netherlands and Germany, during the Campaigns under the_ DUKE _of_ MARLBOROUGH, _from 1702 to 1711_.