The Taylor Papers - Being A Record Of Certain Reminiscences, Letters, And Journals In The Life Of Sir Herbert Taylor (1913) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV 1795-1811 An Account of Nelson's Attack on Santa Cruz?Taylor's Appointment with Lord Cornwallis in Ireland, 1798; and with the Duke of York in Holland, 1799?His position as Secretary to the Blind King?Letters to the Duke of York from Baron Hardenberg and the Duke of Orleans ?George III. and the Princess Amelia; his views on Government and Authority. A TER the Duke of York's return to England, Herbert Taylor, who in May, 1795, obtained his captaincy, stayed on in Holland as secretary to the Commander of the Forces, and continued in that situation first with Lieut.-General Harcourt and then with Sir David Dundas until September 16th of that year, when in consequence of being appointed A.D.C. to H.R.H. the Commander-in-Chief, he returned to England and soon afterwards became assistant secretary in the Duke's office. Indeed, from the very outset he seems to have lacked no opportunity of secretarial and military employment, for during this autumn (1795), Colonel Charles Crawfurd, who was attached to the Austrian army as a military commissioner, offered to appoint him his assistant; and about the same period Major-General St. Leger, who had been named to a brigade destined for the Vendee, would have made him his A.D.C., but the situation he had accepted with the Duke of York precluded both. Again, in 1796, Mr. Windham?then Secretary for War? proposed to send him on a military mission to the Vendee, which was accepted, subject to the Duke of York's approbation. This was obtained, but after being kept in suspense some months, this hazardous service was placed wholly out of the question by the dispersion of the Chouans, and the capture and execution of Charette. London, therefore, was for the present Taylor's headquarters; and his work, in addition to his regimental...