Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1863, Vol. 3 Field-marshal Lord Clyde is dead, at the comparatively early age of seventy-one, which he would have reached had he lived till the 20th of October next, as he was born on that day in the year 17 92. When a man like Colin Campbell is taken to his rest in his seventy-first year, though we, his survivors, must be grate ful to Providence for having allowed him to live so long, yet we cannot admit, as we see most of our contemporaries have done, that he had attained the full term of human life for though many men at three score and ten are feeble and no longer able to be serviceable to their country, of use to their family, or a com fort to themselves, we know others, on the contrary, who are, like him, for all purposes, as young at that age as they were at fifty, and unless prematurely cut short by accident, their lives may extend to four score before they can be said to fall into that second childishness and mere oblivion, which do too frequently characterize that advanced period of life. Nevertheless, there are not wanting examples, such as Ziethen, Radelzky, Suwarrow and others, to say nothing of the late Duke of Wellington, who either gained great victories, conducted brilliant campaigns, or were considered as Nes tors in the senate at even eighty years of age. Therefore, it is that we do repine and grieve at the misfortune which has deprived us of the semces which such a man as Lord Clyde might, in case of necessity, have yet rendered to the fatherland. However, we must submit to the decrees of Providence, and while we are thank ful that there was such a man to finish the Indian mutiny, in the heavy time of need, let us pray that an emergency of equal impor tance may not again arise without another Colin Campbell to meet it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.