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CAULFIELD. 391 imbibed on India's sultry shore) on the 8th of November, 1800, being then in the thirty-second year of his age. He was a distinguished member of most of the musical societies in this metropolis, and was justly considered by them, "as the choicest feather of their wing." WILLIAM CAULFIELD, SECOND VISCOUNT CHAR LE MONT, was a brave and expe- rienced soldier, who patriotically took up arms in defence of his religion and country, against the attacks made on both by King James II. and during the contest between that monarch and King William, he not only engaged himself, but his brothers, in the service of the latter, whereupon he was attainted, and his estate of 5001. a-year, sequestrated on the 7th of May, 1689, by King James's parliament. But after the reduction of the kingdom, King William gave him a regiment of foot, made him governor and Custos Rotulorum of the counties of Tyrone and Armagh, and governor of the fort of Charlemont. On the 5th of October, 169e, he took his seat in the house of peers, and in 1697, the peace being coneluded, his regiment was disbanded, but on the 28th of June, 1701, he was again made colonel of a regiment of foot. In 1705 he was called upon to serve her majesty in Spain, under Charles, Earl of Peterborough, commander- in-chief of her majesty's forces. King Charles III. being besieged by the French in his city of Barcelona, all efforts and expedition were made use of to relieve him, and at the attack of the breach of the town on the 94th of April, Lord Charlemont commanded the first brigade, and forced an entrance, and it being determined on the 26th of August, to attack the citadel of Monjuich, which appeared the only means whereby that city (in a short space) might be brought to surrender, Lord Peterborough, aecompanied by the Prince of Hesse Darmistadt and Lord Charlemont, presented himself with a detachment, before it on the 14th of September, and commenced the assauh, during