[37] Lieutenant-Colonel Smith continued in the command of the fortress of Niagara until the 19th November, 1795, when he died, and was buried with military honours, in a vault prepared for the family on the Canada side of the Niagara River. His son, Sir David William Smith, baronet, was born in the regiment, and having obtained a commission at an early age, he attained the rank of Captain in it before he quitted the service; he afterwards settled in the province of Upper Canada, and was called to the bar there. He communicated to the compiler of this record, with great zeal and kindness, several interesting particulars relative to the history of the regiment. He died on the 19th of May, 1837, at Alnwick, in Northumberland. [38] Now (1837) Lieutenant-General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, Bt. [39] Marshal Soult, Duc de Dalmatia. [40] Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley, K.B., was created a Peer on the 26th August, 1809, by the titles of Baron Douro of Wellesley, and Viscount Wellington of Talavera. [41] Late Scots Brigade, formed from the three Scots regiments, mentioned at page 10. [42] "Ridge fell, and no man died that night with more glory:--yet many died, and there was much glory."--_Napier._ [43] The chivalrous spirit displayed throughout these campaigns by private James Grant, of the second battalion, deserves to be recorded in these memoirs. This brave fellow was a native of Strathspey; being a musician in the band, he was, as usual, left with it in the rear whenever there was any expectation that the battalion might be seriously engaged. On such occasions, however, Grant uniformly stole away from the band, appropriated to himself the arms of the first man he found in the field disabled from using them himself, and, being a tall, fine-looking soldier, fell in on the right of the grenadier company, and there fought till the day was won, when he returned to his instrument. In this manner he took part in the actions of Busaco, Sabugal, Fuentes D'Onor, El Bodon, and Salamanca, the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, and was amongst the foremost in the escalade of the castle of Badajoz. From all these he escaped without a wound: he was appointed serjeant-major of the regiment in 1828; and he died in 1835 from the effects of a fall, at Malta, where a handsome tomb was erected by the regiment, on which his achievements were recorded. [44] On the 21st May, 1831, Captain Spence (being a magistrate) was directed to proceed with his company to _Kilfenora_, by the following letter, viz.:-- "_Ennis, 21st May, 1831._ "Sir, "I am desired by Major-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot to acquaint you, that as it is very desirable to have a magistrate stationed at _Kilfenora_, and as, moreover, he was extremely pleased with your zeal and exertions, while in command of a post, he has directed Lieutenant-Colonel Tovey to send your Company to Kilfenora, having every expectation that your services there will prove of much benefit to the country.