MOORE, (SIR Jonx,) a son of Dr. Moor;., the sub ject of our preceding article, was born at Glasgow, on the 13th of November, 1761. Being destined for the military profession, he was educated chiefly on the con tinent ; and whilst his father was abroad with the Duke of Hamilton, the interest of that nobleman procured him admission to the service, in the capacity of ensign to the 51st regiment of foot. It was at Minorca, in 1776, that Moore first entered the army ; a lieutenancy in the 82d regiment was the next step of his promotion, and he seems to have held this station without much dis tinction, or any censure, during the several campaigns of the American war, in which he served till the arrival of peace, when his regiment was reduced in 1783.
A seat in the Parliament, as member for Lanark and the adjoining burghs, obtained apparently by the influence of the patron above referred to, did not long interrupt his advancement. About the year 1788, the office of major in the 4th battalion of the 60th regiment of foot, was ex changed for a similar post in his original regiment, the 51st, and followed by the commission of lieutenant colonel, which he purchased in that corps two years afterwards. From Gibraltar, where his military duties had placed him, he was ordered to Corsica in 1794 ; and the esteem of General Charles Stuart, formed an epoch in his military life. The siege of Calvi was the scene of this distinc tion; and his first wound was received in storming the Alozzello fort.
When a disagreement with the Viceroy had produced the reeal of General Stuart, Moore succeeded him in the character of Adjutant-General ; but as the subject of dispute with the Viceroy still subsisted, the new coin mander remained not long in good terms with him. His return to England, in the year 1795, seems not to have proceeded from dissatisfaction on the part of government ; and his appointment to the rank of Brigadier General in the West Indies, which followed immediately, opened a new and more conspicuous field to his military talents. At Barbadoes, in consequence of his appointment, he met Sir Ralph Abercrombie, commander of the expe dition destined to act against St. Lucie; and in this hazardous service, of which an important department was assigned to General Moore, he acquitted himself Nvith that steadiness and gallantry which excited the warm applause of his superior officer. The conqueror of St. Lucie, who had already designated General Moore as " the admiration of the whole army," committed to him the prosecution of his enterprise, together with the go vernment of the Island ; and this charge, undertaken with reluctance, and rendered full of danger and labour from the hostility of the natives, and the number of Ma roon negroes, who constantly infested the country, was managed with a decision and activity that overcame every obstacle.
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