Thus in his sixty-fourth year terminated the eventful career of Count Lally, the victim surrendered by a weak and tyrannical ministry to popular clamour, affording by his fate a memorable instance of the injustice, ingratitude, and barbarity of the Court of Versailles. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: The MS. original of these interesting instructions was presented to Charles Grant, Viscount de Vaux, by the directors of the English East India Company.] [Footnote 2: The 79th, or Draper's Regiment, lost in this siege, and encounters before it, thirty-four officers, whose names were inscribed on a beautiful cenotaph, erected on Clifton Downs by Colonel Sir W. Drapes and which he dedicated as, "Sacred to the Memory of those departed Warriors, Of the Seventy-ninth Regiment, By whose Valour, Discipline, and Perseverance The French land Forces in Asia were first withstood and repulsed."] JOHN CAMERON, OF FASSIFERN, K.T.S., COLONEL OF THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS; SLAIN AT QUATRE-BRAS, 1815. From among the many distinguished Scottish officers who served under Wellington, if we could select one for the delineation of his career, it would be John Cameron of the House of Fassifern and Locheil. This brave soldier was the eldest of the seven children of Ewen Cameron, Laird of Fassifern (_i.e._ the Point of Alders), and his wife, Lucy Campbell, of Barcaldine, whose father succeeded to the estate of Glenure on the death of her uncle, Colin Campbell, who was shot at the Ferry of Ballachulish, in Appin, by Allan Breac Stewart, otherwise known as _Vic Ian_, _Vic Alaster_,--a crime for which the Laird of Ardsheil was judicially murdered by the Duke of Argyle at the Castle of Inverary. Ewen Cameron was the son of John _the Tanister_, a younger brother of the great Locheil, who commenced the insurrection of 1745; and it is said that this powerful chief, on being summoned by Prince Charles to attend his memorable lauding in Moidart on the 25th July, was predisposed to warn him against the projected rising of the clans. "If such be your intention, Donald," said John of Fassifern, "_write_ your opinion to the Prince, but do not trust yourself within the fascination of his presence. I know you better than you know yourself, and foresee that you will be unable to refuse compliance."