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19 chose holding official military situations, under his immediate direction, was truly praise-worthy, and although some of them were early distinguished by his friendship, it must be observed, in proof of the assertion, that private favour had not influenced the choice;" that General Brownriggs, his first Military Secretary, became first known to him by his meritorious discharge of the duties of Deputy Quarter-Master-General, in Flanders, in 1794, and that the distinguished individuals, who suc- cessfully filled that office, were not personally known to his Royal Highness until some years after he became Commander-in-Chief, and then owed their appointments to his official sense of heir value. The Duke was regular in his attendance to bu- siness, to which the greater part of every day was devoted. Every arrangement, the most minute, was submitted by the heads of departments for his (illegible text)manction; the memorial of every officer--the pe- cition of every soldier, engaged his personal atten- sion, nor were any suffered to pass unnoticed. Tuesdays and Fridays (during the Session of Parliament), and other periods, Tuesdays only, al were the days on which his Royal Highness gave audiences to Officers of every rank, who wished to he approach him on business. In the year 1820, the Duchess of York died, after having endured a lingering and painful dis- With this Lady, the Duke lived on terms of decency, but not of affection. W. Shortly afterwards his Royal Highness drew he attention of the public towards him by a de- claration of his intention to sit and vote dnr ng the Queen's trial. The speech which his R. H delivered in Parlia-