Subsequently, he wrote and gave to the world his "History of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America." The achievements commemorated in this publication, the sight of his maimed hand, and the constant activity and heartiness of his disposition rendered him popular; particularly with his townsmen of Liverpool, who, in 1790, returned him to Parlia-ment. At the close of 1798, he was sent as Major-general to Portugal, and afterward as Lieutenant-general to Ireland, where, for some time, he was second in command. Ata later time, he was recalled to England, where for six years, he had command of the Severn district. He obtained the rank of general in 1812 and was afterward created a Baronet. He sat, for twenty two years, in the House of Commons, as one of the members from Liverpool, during which time he took a decided part in important questions, speaking not un- frequently, always with characteristic vehemence, and generally siding with the opposition. When in 1791, a motion for the abolition of the African slave trade, was made in the House of Commons, it was

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opposed with very considerable ability by Tarleton, and de-feated. Among the philanthropists who anxiously watched the progress of this great measure, was William Allen, a dis-tinguished member of the Society of Friends. The honest quaker, whose heart was set upon a suppression of this traffic in human beings, speaks, in his diary, with great bitterness of Tarleton's opposition to the motion. "This man," he says, "I hear, boasts that he has killed more men with his own hand, than any man in England. The words of Blair seem peculiarly applicable to him." " 'Behold the sturdy man-destroying villain.' " General Sir Banastre Tarleton died in Shropshire, on the 23d of January 1833, at the age of seventy eight.