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his troops, and the place was speedily retaken. Ever since the Cape has
remained in possession of Britain.
General Dundas wasappointed Governor of Dumbarton Castle in 1819. He
died at his house in Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, on the 4th of January 1824,
after a long and painful illness, “which he supported with the patience of a
Christian, and the fortitude of a soldier.”
The next of the military figures, with the volunteer cap and feather, in the
centre of the Promenade, is SIX HENRY JARDINE. His father, the
Rev. Dr. John Jardine-who died in 1766, aged fifty-one, and in the twentyfifth
year of his ministry-was one of the ministers of Edinburgh, one of the
Deans of the Chapel-Royal, and Dean of the Order of the Thistle. His mother
was a daughter of Provost Drummond, of whose patriotic exertions for the
city of Edinburgh, the New Town and the Royal Infirmary are honourable
memorials. Sir Henry was brought up to the profession of the law, and passed
a Writer to the Signet in 1790. He was appointed golicitor of Taxes for
Scotland in 1793 ; Depute King’s Remembrancer in the Exchequer in 1802 ;
and King’s Remembrancer in 1820, which latter office he held till the total
change of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland in 1831. He was knighted by
George the Fourth in 1825.
Sir Henry was the original Secretary to the Committee for raising the Royal
Edinburgh Volunteers in 1794, of which corps he was appointed a Lieutenant
on the 20th October of the same year; a Captain in 1799 ; and Major in
March 1801. He was the last individual alive enumerated in the original list of
officers ; and he was one of three trustees for managing the fund remaining, after
the Volunteers were disbanded, for behoof of any member of the corps in distress.
Sir Henry Jardine was long conspicuous as a public-spirited citizen, there
being few institutions for the promotion of any useful or national object
of which he was not a member. In the lists of the year 1838 his
name appeared as one of the Councillors of the Royal Society of Edinburgh;
one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland;
one of the Extraordinary Directors of the Royal Institution for the
Encouragement of the Fine Arts,; one:of the Ordinary Directors of the Scottish
Naval and Military Academy; one of the Brigadier-Generals of the Royal
Company of Archers ; one of the Councillors of the Skating Club ; one of the
Directors of the Assembly Rooms, George Street ; and one of the Sub-Committee
of Directors of the Royal Association of Contributors to the National Monument.
He was also one of the Ordinary Directors of the Bank of Scotland ; one of the
”rustees for the Encouragement of Scottish Manufactures ; one of the Trustees
for Promoting the British White Herring Fishery j and one of the Vice-Presidents
of the Caledonian Horticultural Society.
With the charitable and humane institutions of the city the name of Sir
Henry was not less extensively associated. He was one of the Managers of the
Orphan Hospital; one of the Auditors of the Society of the Industrious