This officer's first commission was dated the 4th of February, 1704, and he had the honour to serve under the renowned John Duke of Marlborough. At the augmentation of the army in the summer of 1715, he was appointed major of the eleventh dragoons, and he subsequently obtained the lieut.-colonelcy of that corps. He was employed in suppressing the rebellion which broke out in 1715, and was wounded at the attack of the insurgents at Preston, in Lancashire. He subsequently held a commission in the royal dragoons, and also in the King's horse, now first dragoon guards, and in June, 1737, he was promoted to the colonelcy of the thirty-sixth foot, from which he was removed to the THIRTEENTH Dragoons in 1741, and in 1743, he obtained the colonelcy of the third dragoons. He served as brigadier-general at the battle of Dettingen, in 1743, and at Fontenoy, in 1745. In the following winter he served as major-general under the Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland, where he signalized himself on several occasions, and commanded a regiment of cavalry at the battle of Culloden. He subsequently returned to the continent, and was wounded at the battle of Val, in 1747. In 1752, he was removed to the colonelcy of the first dragoon guards, which he retained until his decease in 1763. JAMES GARDINER, _Appointed 18th April, 1743_. JAMES GARDINER, son of Captain Patrick Gardiner, who died while serving in Germany under the great Duke of Marlborough, in 1704, was born in 1688. At the commencement of hostilities, in 1701, he obtained a commission in one of the Scots regiments in the Dutch service, and in 1702, he was appointed ensign in a regiment in British pay. He served under the Duke of Marlborough, and at the battle of Ramilies, on the 23rd of May, 1706, he was at the head of the troops which attacked the French infantry posted in the church-yard, and while in the act of planting his colours on an elevated spot, and calling to his men to advance, he was shot in the mouth. He lay all night on the ground, and on the following day some foreign soldiers engaged to remove him to Huy; but being unable to bear the fatigue of the journey, they left him at a convent, where, owing to the kind care of the lady abbess, and the aid she procured, he recovered in a few months[12]. This year he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and he was soon afterwards removed to the Scots Greys, commanded by Lord John Dalrymple, afterwards Earl of Stair, who became much attached to Lieutenant Gardiner. On the re-formation of the seventh dragoons, in February, 1715, Lieutenant Gardiner was appointed captain-lieutenant in that corps, and in July following he was promoted to captain, in Stanhope's dragoons, of which regiment he was appointed major in 1717; but in the following year this corps was disbanded. During the war he was aide-de-camp to the Earl of Stair, and he was attached to the splendid retinue of that nobleman, while his