Wilson, Robert Thomas: The British expedition to Egypt: carefully abridged in two parts (London, 1803)

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his surprise- that the name of the man who
took the standard cannot now be acquired i
and then proceeds to urge good reason for
believing that nearly the whole, of Sir R,
Wilson’s statement of that circumstance is
inaccurate: “ We,” fays that writer, “ have
long known the name of the man who really
took that standard, have shaken the brave
fellow by the hand, and have held a long
conversation with him on this very business.”
He contradicts, most peremptorily, the equi-
vocal statement of Serjeant Sinclair, as deli-
vered to the Highland Society, assembled at
the Shakspeare Tavern, on the 17th of March,
1802, as it was reported in the public prints;
and he maintains that he alone took the
standard in question, and that that standard,
which, we believe, is now in the War Office,
was never previously taken by Serjeant Sin-
clair or any other person.
The account given by this gallant soldier,
whose name is Antoine Lutz, a native of
Rosheim in Alsace, is substantially this. —
That the Regiment of Stuart, or more
properly the Queen’s German Regiment,
(in which Lutz was a private,) was, as sta-
ted by Sir Robert Wilson, in the second line
of the British army in the battle of the 21st
of March, forming a sort of reserve to the
42d, or Royal Highland Regiment ; and,
with Rolle’s and Dillon’s Regiments, con-
stituted the foreign brigade, under the com-
mand of General Stuart. This brigade was
posted-about 300 yards behind the 42d,