SIR ROBERT RICH entered the army in 1700, and gave such signal proofs of courage and skill in the wars in the reign of Queen Anne, that, on the 24th of October, 1709, he was advanced to the command of a regiment of foot. At the peace of Utrecht his regiment was disbanded, and he remained for some time unemployed; but being distinguished for his loyalty and steady attachment to the Protestant succession, he was commissioned to raise, in the summer of 1715, a regiment of dragoons, which was instrumental in suppressing the rebellion which broke out that year; but in 1718 it was disbanded. The services of Sir Robert Rich were, however, not forgotten; he was appointed one of the grooms of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales (afterwards George II.): and on the 19th of November, 1722, King George I. appointed him colonel of the THIRTEENTH Dragoons; from which he was removed, in September, 1725, to the eighth dragoons; and on the 1st of January, 1731, to the seventh horse, now sixth dragoon guards. He was again removed in 1733 to the first troop of horse grenadier guards; and in 1735 to the fourth dragoons; he was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1735, to that of lieut.-general in 1739, general in 1745; and in 1757 he was advanced to the rank of field-marshal. He was a member of Parliament, and governor of Chelsea Hospital. He died in 1768. WILLIAM STANHOPE, _Appointed 20th September, 1725_. WILLIAM STANHOPE, youngest son of John Stanhope of Elvaston, served several years in the third regiment of foot guards, in which corps he obtained the command of a company, with the rank of lieut.-colonel, and on the 17th of March, 1711, he was promoted to the colonelcy of a regiment of foot, which served in Spain, but was disbanded in November, 1712. In the summer of 1715, when the kingdom was menaced with internal war, by the partizans of the Pretender, he raised a regiment of dragoons for the service of King George I.; and when the commotions, which followed, were suppressed, his corps was disbanded. In 1717, he was employed in a diplomatic character in Spain; hostilities with that country commenced in 1719, and he subsequently served as a volunteer with the French army, commanded by Marshal Duke of Berwick. He concerted a plan for the destruction of three Spanish ships of the line, and a great quantity of naval stores, in the port of St. Andero, which was effected by an English squadron; Colonel Stanhope contributed to the execution of this enterprise by accompanying a detachment of troops, which Marshal Berwick sent, at his solicitation, and was the first that leaped into the water when the boats approached the shore. At the termination of the war, he was again appointed envoy at the Spanish court, and while employed in this service King George I. conferred on him the colonelcy of the THIRTEENTH Dragoons. At the commencement of the war with Spain, 1726-7, he returned to England, and was appointed vice-chamberlain to the