Wellington had then won all the honours a subject could attain: patents of nobility, baronetcy, and knighthood were issued for generals of division and brigade; Orders of the Garter, the Bath, and the Crescent were unsparingly lavished among the heroes of the war; but the brave Cameron, notwithstanding all his services--though he had been almost riddled by musket-shot, and had served in Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, and France, at home and abroad, for twenty-one years--found that the Duke of Wellington had _omitted_ his name in the list of officers recommended for honorary distinctions. He visited London, and complained to the Duke of York, who offered to have him gazetted as an additional Cross of the Bath. "I beg your highness will excuse me," said he, "for as my name has been omitted, I will not accept of it now." "Sir," replied the duke, "do you know to whom you are speaking?" "A prince of that royal blood for which I have too often shed my own; but am yet willing to do so again. And I have the honour to wish your Highness good morning." In this haughty fashion he quitted the Horse Guards, but was afterwards prevailed upon to write to Wellington. Justly indignant, he wrote a fiery remonstrance to the duke, who was then at Vienna, and who, in one of his letters to Earl Bathurst, dated 5th February, mentions it as a _somewhat imprudent production_; but his Grace replied to the following effect:-- "Vienna, 5th February, 1815. "SIR,--I received your letter of the 8th January, this morning, and I have transmitted it to the Secretary of State, with my recommendation of you. "The Government fixed the occasions on which medals should be granted to the army, and framed the rules, according to which I was bound to make the lists of those to whom they were to be granted; and not having received their orders to recommend for medals, for the service at Arroya del Molinos, Alba de Tormes, Bejar, Aire, or at Arriverette, it was impossible for me to recommend you for a medal at Fuentes d'Onoro, or in the Pyrenees, according to the rules by which I was bound to make out the lists of those I recommended. I have not an accurate recollection of the lists for Bayonne, the Nivelle, Orthez, and Toulouse; but of this I am very certain, _that I have never failed to do your services justice_, as it was my earnest desire to render it to every officer and soldier I had the honour of commanding.