[11] On being appointed to the colonelcy of the regiment in 1760, Lord Frederick Cavendish presented to the officers’ mess two handsome silver vases, which still ornament the mess-table of the corps. [12] BEATSON’s _Naval and Military Memoirs_. [13] On the 22nd January, 1796, Private John Perry was promoted to serjeant for gallant conduct before the enemy. [14] In this year Lieutenant-Colonel Cunyngham presented a handsome silver side dish to the officers’ mess, which is still in their possession. [15] The brass drums and the drum-major’s staff of the FRENCH THIRTY-FOURTH REGIMENT were captured on this occasion, and are now used by the British THIRTY-FOURTH REGIMENT; and Serjeant Moses Simpson, the individual who actually took the staff from the drum-major of the French Thirty-fourth Regiment, is, at the period of completing this historical record, (September, 1843,) in the situation of barrack-serjeant at Northampton, and has been presented by the officers of the THIRTY-FOURTH Regiment with a handsome medal, in commemoration of his gallant conduct. [16] The “Conquer Hill” of Clontarf is celebrated in Irish history as the scene of a victory gained by the Irish over the Danes. SUCCESSION OF COLONELS OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH, OR, THE CUMBERLAND REGIMENT OF FOOT. ROBERT LORD LUCAS. _Appointed 12th February, 1702._ ROBERT LORD LUCAS was distinguished for his attachment to the interests of civil and religious liberty; and at the revolution in 1688, when King James II. had fled in disguise, and London was in great confusion, his Lordship was nominated, by a committee assembled for the preservation of tranquillity, to take the charge of the Tower. This appointment was confirmed to Lord Lucas by King William III., who gave his Lordship a commission of Governor of the Tower of London. LORD LUCAS entered the army, and served under King William in Flanders; and he was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the Thirteenth Regiment, commanded by Sir John Jacobs. On the breaking out of the war of the Spanish succession, his Lordship took great interest in raising a regiment of foot, now the THIRTY-FOURTH, of which he was appointed colonel by King William, in February, 1702. Queen Anne superseded his Lordship’s commission as Governor of the Tower, and appointed the Earl of Abingdon to that dignity, with the title of Constable. LORD LUCAS retained the colonelcy of his regiment until his decease, on the 31st of January, 1705; when the dignity of BARON LUCAS of Shenfield, in Essex, became extinct. HANS HAMILTON. _Appointed 1st February, 1705._