CALDWELL

366 various documents from the lord-lieutenant and oth officers of the king. His majesty, in recompence of h services, bestowed upon him in custodiam, for seven yea the whole of the forfeited Bagnal estate, then let for 800 er annum; at the end of which time it was to be restore o the Bagnal family, and Sir James was to be otherwis provided for. He died in 1717. HUME CALDWELL, w Ho in the compass of a very short life, obtained mo military glory than has fallen to the lot of most individua who have embraced the profession of arms, was the thi son of Sir John Caldwell, of Castle Caldwell, and gre grandson of the subject of the preceding article. Po sessed of all those warm and generous feelings so peculia to the Irish, blended with a share of that uncalculatin ardour of mind, more honourable than profitable, whic bas also been considered their characteristic, he ros deservedly and rapidly to high military honours. He was born in the year 1735, and being intended fo the university, was instructed in the Latin and Greek lan guages, under a private tutor, till he was about fourtee years of age, at which time he had made considerabl progress in both. His brother, Sir James, having distinguished himself i the army of the Empress Queen, to whose notice he ha thus recommended himself, she made him an offer o taking one of his brothers into her service, which he ac cepted in favour of Hume, who was therefore placed in French academy at Dublin, to learn the modern language and mathematics. Here, being, though so young, trouble with some symptoms of the gout, he gave a specimen o that firmness and self-denial which were his characteris tics, by abstaining, at the recommendation of his master from animal food and fermented liquors, and during a year that he remained there, was never known to depart once from this rule.