NOTE
In the references, and also in the text, from Chap. V to
the end of the volume, the names of military officers and civil
functionaries are quoted without any nice regard to the rank
they may have held at the particular time, or to the titles by
which they may have been subsequently distinguished. But
as there is one person onlj- of each name to be referred to, no
doubt or inconvenience can arise from this laxity. Thus the
youthful, but discreet Mr. Metcalfe of the treaty with Ranjit
Singh, and the Sir Charles Metcalfe so honourably connected
with the history of India, is the Lord Metcalfe of riper years
and approved services in another hemisphere. LieutenantColonel, or more briefly Colonel, Pottinger, is now a MajorGeneral and a Grand Cross of the Bath; while Mr Clerk has
been made a knight of the same Order, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Lawrence has been raised to an equal title. Captain, or Lieutenant-Colonel, or Sir Claude Wade, mean one and the same
person and similarly the late Sir Alexander Burnes sometimes
:
appears as a simple lieutenant, or as a captain, or as a lieutenant-colonel. On the other hand, Sir David Ochterlony is referred to solely under that title, although, when he marched
to the Sutlej in 1809, he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel
only.