MEMOIRS

OF

CAPTAIN CARLETON.

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MEMOIRS

OF

CAPT. GEORGE CARLETON,

AN ENGLISH OFFICER;

INCLUDING

ANECDOTES OF THE WAR IN SPAIN UNDER

THE EARL OF PETERBOROUGH,

AND

MANY INTERESTING PARTICULARS RELATING

TO THE MANNERS OF THE SPANIARDS IN THE BEGINNING

OF THE LAST CENTURY.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

FOURTH EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO.,
EDINBURGH; J. MURRAY, AND

CONSTABLE, HUNTER, PARK, & HUNTER,

LONDON.

1809.

Koninkligh
Bibliothock
te's Hage.

PREFACE

ΤΟ

CARLETON'S MEMOIRS,

CONTAINING

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES

OF

THE EARL OF PETERBOROUGH.

FROM an anecdote in Boswell's Life of Johnson, we are referred to the following Memoirs for the best account of the military achievements of the Earl of Peterborough." The best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet with, is in Captain Carleton's Memoirs. Carleton was descended of an officer who had distinguished himself at the siege of