James II., who promoted him to the rank of major-general on the 8th of November, 1688, and placed him at the head of the van-guard of the army appointed to oppose the Prince. KIRKE is reported to have formed the design of seizing the king's person at Warminster, and of delivering him into the hands of the Prince of Orange; but this plot was frustrated by the king's being prevented visiting that quarter in consequence of an excessive bleeding at the nose, to which his Majesty was subject. Major-General KIRKE was afterwards arrested and sent under a guard to London; but the flight of the king to France, and the elevation of the Prince of Orange to the throne, following in rapid succession, he was liberated and received into the favour of his new sovereign. In 1689 he was sent with two regiments of foot to the relief of Londonderry, in which service he succeeded; but he was accused of cruelty to the inhabitants, and of augmenting their miseries unnecessarily. He evinced ability and personal bravery in several skirmishes with King James's forces; he served under King William at the battle of the Boyne, and at the siege of Limerick, and on the 24th of December, 1690, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general. He was subsequently appointed to the staff of King William's army in the Netherlands, and he died at Breda on the 31st of October, 1691. CHARLES TRELAWNY. _Appointed 23rd April, 1682._ CHARLES TRELAWNY was the fourth son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, baronet, of an ancient family, which derived its name from the lordship of Trelawny, in Alternon, in the county of Cornwall; he obtained a commission in the Duke of Monmouth's regiment of foot, raised in England in 1672, for the service of the King of France against the Dutch. In his first campaign he was engaged in the invasion of Holland; in 1673 the famous city of Maestricht was besieged and captured; and during the four succeeding years he served on the Rhine under Marshals Turenne, Luxemburg, and De Crequi, and having acquired the character of a brave and meritorious officer, he was promoted to the majority of his corps. When Monmouth's regiment was disbanded in 1679, he was placed on half-pay; but in the summer of 1680 he was appointed major of the SECOND TANGIER regiment, for which corps he raised a company of sixty-five men in Devonshire, &c. Soon after his arrival in Africa he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy, and in 1682 he succeeded Colonel Kirke in the colonelcy of the regiment. He took an important part in bringing about the Revolution in 1688; and having joined the association formed in favour of the Prince of Orange, he induced his brother, the Bishop of Bristol, to engage in the same cause. In November, 1688, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general; after he had joined the Prince of Orange, King James deprived him of his regiment; but it was restored by the Prince on the 31st of December. He distinguished himself at