h pay; and in case of their being dismissed,
the said subsidy of three hundred thousand crowns was then to revive and
be continued during the residue of the term: but, if twelve thousand
men were demanded and furnished, the subsidy was then to be increased
in proportion; and in case the king of Great Britain should at any time
think fit to send back these troops before the expiration of the treaty,
notice thereof was to be given to his serene highness three months
beforehand: one month's pay was to be allowed them for their return, and
they were to be furnished gratis with the necessary transport vessels.]

[Footnote 372: Note 2 Z, p. 372. It is with pleasure we seize this
opportunity of recording an instance of gallantry and patriotism in
a British officer, which would have done honour to the character of a
Roman tribune. Captain Cunningham, an accomplished young gentleman, who
acted as engineer in second at Minorca, being preferred to a majority
at home, and recalled to his regiment by an express order, had repaired
with his family to Nice in Italy, where he waited for the opportunity of
a ship bound for England, when he received certain intelligence that
the French armament was destined for the place he had quitted. His lady,
whom he tenderly loved, was just delivered, and two of his children were
dangerously ill of the small-pox. He recollected that the chief engineer
at Minorca was infirm, and indeed disabled by the gout, and that many
things were wanting for the defence of the fortress. His zeal for the
honour and service of his country immediately triumphed over the calls
of tenderness and of nature. He expended a considerable sum of money
in purchasing timber for the platforms, and other necessaries for
the garrison; hired a ship for transporting them thither; and tearing
himself from his wife and children, thus left among strangers in a
foreign country, embarked again for Minorca, where he knew he should be
in a peculiar manner exposed to all the dangers of a furious siege.
In the course of this desperate service he acquitted himself with that
vigilance, skill, and active courage, which he had on divers former
occasions displayed, until the assault was given to the queen's bastion;
when, mixing with the enemy, sword in hand, he was disabled in his right
arm by the shot of a musket and the thrust of a bayonet. His behaviour
was so acceptable to his sovereign, that when he returned to England he
was preferred to